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...pushed the genre way, way past hardboiled, into the realm of the terminally scalded. Ellroy seemed set on a path toward at least a shot at the ambition he had brashly revealed to interviewers who began seeking him out: "I want to be known as the greatest crime novelist who ever lived...
Last month, francophone novelist and Professor of Women's Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures Maryse Condé's book Crossing the Mangrove appeared for the first time in English in bookstores throughout Cambridge...
Michael Chabon's likable first novel, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" -- a lighthearted account of a young man growing up gay -- was received with glad cries that still reverberated when his short story collection, "A Model World," appeared. And then? Well, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. "Wonder Boys" (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel that character Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. TIME critic John Skow pans Wonder Boys as a "series of funny scenes about not writing...
Chekhov once gave an aspiring novelist some telling advice: "When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief, as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief." In its cool observational dispassion and fineness of construction, Uncle Vanya has all the grace of a gentle snowfall...
...with other actors. Two years ago, Hawke started his own theater company, where he presides as artistic director. Ryder collects rare books and owns an edition of James Joyce's Ulysses that features original drawings by Matisse. She is also a fan of the obscure, critically lauded Italian-American novelist John Fante...