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...DIED. JOHN GREGORY DUNNE, 71, novelist, essayist and (in collaboration with his wife Joan Didion) screenwriter; in New York City. His novels (Dutch Shea, Jr.; True Confessions) were full of Irishry-tough and compassionate, knowing without being cynical, true expressions of a complicated, cranky, lovable man whose hatred of hypocrisy was legendary. But his best subject was Hollywood, which he anatomized in two books (Monster; The Studio) and many articles. These were inside jobs-but without the malevolence and condescension many writers bring to their true tales of movie work. Dunne generally preferred (for their passion and honesty) the "bullies...
JOHN STEINBECK, novelist, in a 1943 newspaper column praising the comedian's contribution in entertaining U.S. troops overseas during World...
Oakland is hardly regarded by most people as a must-see tourist destination. But novelist-poet Ishmael Reed is determined to change perceptions of this Northern California city, his adopted hometown, which he argues is still vital, despite ongoing problems with crime and budget cuts. In his new book, Blues City (Crown; 191 pages), Reed recommends the following Oakland sights and activities...
...Double Vision (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 258 pages) ought to be a must to avoid. It's anything but. Granted, it has all those things, plus 9/11, Slobodan Milosevic and a good many predatory birds. But it's also the work of the subtle British novelist Pat Barker, whose dry-eyed manner and nuanced view of good and evil made her Regeneration trilogy, about World War I, a triumph. Her spare but still sometimes resplendent writing, her gift for menace--it's all in this book, and it makes you want to follow her even when she gets lost...
...Opposite of Fate, Chinese-American novelist Amy Tan reveals that one of the reasons she became a writer was to make a testament to her mother, Daisy, who emigrated from China in 1949. The formidable Daisy, who appears frequently in this collection of essays, had a distinct voice of her own, typified by this Talibanic pronouncement on the mortal perils of dating: "Don't ever let boy kiss you. You do, you can't stop. Then you have baby. You put baby in garbage can. Police find you, put you in jail, then you life over, better just kill yourself...