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...Written by novelist David Benioff and Skip Woods, Wolverine was directed by Gavin Hood, a South African who earlier made two exercises in political solemnity, Tsotsi and Rendition. The new movie has a sharper look and a smarter film sense, because Hood is surrounded by the sort of artist-technicians who can lend cinematic swank to almost any action picture. But that's now par for the course, and Wolverine doesn't rise above the level of familiar competence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wolverine: There Ain't No Sanity Claws | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Read an interview with romance novelist Nora Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amish Romance Novels: No Bonnet Rippers | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

John Wray, author of the new and notable “Lowboy,” has not had an easy way as a novelist. He wrote his debut, 2001’s “The Right Hand of Sleep,” in a tent in the basement of a Brooklyn warehouse, where he would by-now-famously listen to rats copulate. For his second book, 2005’s “Canaan’s Tongue,” he did his publicity tour by raft down the Mississippi in a (failed) attempt to get people...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Style Forces Substance Underground | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...uncle penned what became the unofficial anthem of the 1940s French Resistance, "Chant des Partisans." But it was his award-winning writing and connection to Charles de Gaulle's government that made novelist Maurice Druon, 90, most notable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

Speaking in front of a packed Sackler Museum Auditorium on Thursday, Scottish novelist and law professor Alexander McCall-Smith admitted to writing about real-life acquaintances in his fiction. “I take great pleasure in putting real people into books. I take their permission, well, not entirely,” he said, before warning event host Professor Arthur I. Applbaum that he might come up in a future novel. McCall-Smith, a former professor of medical ethics at the University of Edinburgh, was born in Zimbabwe and lived for many years in Botswana. His fictional oeuvre includes...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Discusses Fact and Fiction | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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