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Murakami journeyed to the States over 10 years ago to escape these photo shoots and other trappings of fame. But this time around, it seems that the U.S. will be no refuge from the spotlight. As humble as his novels?? trademark narrators, Murakami seems dazzled at the turnaround...
What Ellroy is most famous for is his crime novels??huge, sprawling works with hitmen, thugs, pimps, whores, victims and perps. His most recent series—The Underworld U.S.A. trilogy, which includes American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and a not-yet-published third installment—fictionalizes American history in the from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. It covers a variety of events including the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy assassination and will conclude just prior to Watergate...
...abound in force—the rich girl falls for the poor boy during a passionate summer romance. Cue parental disapproval, separation, the introduction of a romantic obstacle in the form of a third party, lather, rinse and repeat. It’s the Hallmark card of romance novels??the love between country boy Noah and wealthy WASP Allie is just too precious for words. Diabetics beware: the novel is so saccharine it’s likely to produce insulin shock. This is, after all, the same author that gifted audiences with the novels-turned-film Message...
Perhaps in a nod to consumer demand—Time reports that 51 million Americans read romance novels??today’s Coop stocks plenty of Pottinger. Except that in print, she is Julia Quinn, a shrewdly chosen pen name meant to place her titles next to the popular Amanda Quick. These days, Quinn titles don’t need help from alphabetization to fly off the shelves. Romancing Mr. Bridgerton, her June 2002 release, was named one of the top ten Favorite Books of the year in an annual poll by Romance Writers of America...
...particular note in the exhibit are two sculpures by Shambroom. The first, “Those who go II,” consists of several stacks of Sir Walter Scott’s “Waverly Novels??—essentially tales of British people killing each other, the most famous of which is “Ivanhoe”—with a large crater on the top, into which juts the hilt of a knife adjacent to a bullet. The other sculpture, labeled as being part of the Forgotten Writer Series, celebrates forgotten writer...