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...market a book written by a publicity-shy author? That's the challenge facing Penguin Press as it readies the November 21st publication of Against the Day, a 1,120-page epic by the reclusive literary lion Thomas Pynchon...
...Bobby,” an account of how RFK’s assassination affected various people’s lives, features just about every talented yet struggling actor in L.A. Personally, I’m waiting for the “WARNING: May Cause Toe-Tapping”-CGI-penguin feature, “Happy Feet.” Then again, I’ll take anything I can get to forget Al Gore’s oh-so-awkward stint at this summer’s MTV Video Music Awards. I’m afraid the terms...
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq By Thomas E. Ricks The Penguin Press...
...That Wasn't, combines documentary-style film footage of his 2005 voyage to Antarctica, an operatic translation of the trip set in New York City's Central Park, a sculpture of an island discovered on the venture, a musical score based on that island's topography - and an animatronic penguin. All this is Huyghe's attempt to produce a dark, cold, strange "equivalent" of his Antarctic "elsewhere." The result is very different from your basic travel documentary, which, as Huyghe points out, is usually shot from a stranger's perspective, edited heavily and presented as reality, when it obviously...
...dream childhood that would handily prepare a bright youngster for the intellectual rigors of life, right? Not really, writes Quart, now 34, in her new book, Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child (Penguin Press). "Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure." Quart is unflinchingly honest about her unusual childhood experience. "My father would have bristled at the notion that he was an overbearing puppet master. If I sat absolutely quietly and wrote lyrical verse about tree-tops, I was peachy...