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...heart attack, couldn't be more infra dig: they were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet decades later she was elevated to the status of pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1991 movie version, and the cult was under way. In a 1997 episode of The X Files, there was a talking Bettie Page tattoo, voiced by Jodie Foster. (See TIME's Top 10 Fleeting Celebrities...
Acclaimed for his illustrated books The Lost Thing (2000) and The Red Tree (2001), the Australian artist, illustrator and writer Shaun Tan took an enormous leap in recognition two years ago with the publication of The Arrival, his miraculous, wordless graphic novel, executed entirely in sepia-tinted drawings of breathtaking beauty and originality. It went on to bag a clutch of prestigious awards and became a New York Times best-selling children's book...
...this list, J. M. Coetzee is the youngest—and the most melancholy. In his famous 1999 novel “Disgrace,” he showed the late-life education of a literature professor forced, in a post-literate age, to teach “Communications.” He returned to the theme in his more recent novel—it was released on Dec. 27, 2007, to avoid end-of-the-year-list mania on the blogs—“Diary of a Bad Year.” More humane and generous than...
...claimed, for it to make him happy). This year he received the compliment of an accomplished warts-and-all biography (lesser writers receive praise while they’re living, and are damned when they’re dead). But he is miserable. Every time he writes a novel he claims it will be his last—because novels and literature are dead, he says each time...
...melancholy. Except on one topic. This past year, after a string of disappointing books about old age—in one of them, a young biographer threatened the peace of mind of a departed writer and his still-living, aged friend—Roth published a highly acclaimed novel, “Indignation,” set in the 1950s. Nonetheless, whenever he’s asked, he seems to shake his head sadly and admit that no one reads anymore, that literature is finished, the novel is done...