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- CIA Psychic Spy Program Provides Background for New Thriller Novel, "Mind Games"
- Author John Truman Wolfe 's new award-winning thriller, " Mind Games " shines a light on one of the most secretive CIA programs in the Agency's history. The new fiction novel , featuring Wolfe's Berkeley-based private detective, Tom McKenna, is set against the historical background...
- Research articles 2008-10-21
- Jin, Ha. A free life
- JIN, Ha. A free life. Read by Jason Ma. 17 cds. 22 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 2007 978-07927-5043-7 $124.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. S A This semi-autobiographical work is Ha Jin's 7th work of fiction. This one features the observations of an immigrant to this "lonesome, unfathomable, overwhelming...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Migrant ready to write America
- FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Ha Jin is a winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His day job secure at Boston University, he and his wife live in a fine suburban house, close enough to Gillette Stadium to hear the fireworks on Sunday as the...
- Research articles 2007-12-02
- Koelling, Holly, ed. Best Books for Young Adults
- KOELLING, Holly, ed. Best books for young adults. (3rd ed.) American Library Association. 346p. bibliogs, index. 978-0-8389-3569-9. $42.00. (members $3750.) JSA There is an analysis of the Best Books for Young Adults lists, especially in the past ten years. A 50-page chapter addresses Current Trends in Teen Publishing and...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Sex and doctors: ER medics best placed to win hearts
- PARIS AFP — If romantic fiction is any guide, any doctor looking for love would be advised to be an emergency room surgeon or deliver babies rather than practise colon resection or remove in-grown toenails. So says Irish physician Brendan Kelly, who -- with a bravura contempt for the...
- Research articles 2007-10-25
- British author McEwan joint favourite to win Booker Prize
- LONDON AFP — British author Ian McEwan and his New Zealand counterpart Lloyd Jones are the joint favourites to win the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction on Tuesday, while another shortlisted novel about Muslim experiences in post-9/11 America has also made headlines. McEwan and Jones are among six writers...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- Lyrically written 'Red Rover' a compelling read
- Deirdre McNamer's new novel is lyrical, in its structure as well as in its sentences. The plot rolls through time, with decades receding and returning like the tide. McNamer begins with two young brothers riding their horses through the Sweet Grass Hills of Montana in 1927. The next...
- Research articles 2007-08-26
- Beach Reading for Business
- Just in time for the home stretch of summer, Joe Nocera of the New York Times a paper I sometimes write for has posted his list of the the best business books ever Nocera has been a top business writer for decades now -- for instance, his story...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- BOOKS HIGHLIGHTS
- 1.Richard Ford Frank Bascombe is to Richard Ford what Rabbit Angstrom is to John Updike. First encountered in The Sportswriter, published in 1986, we have followed Frank and his travails through Independence Day, which appeared in 1995, through to The Lay of the Land, which was the literary event of...
- Research articles 2007-07-29
- Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings
- Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings. Malcolm Andrews. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]40.00. xiv + 331 pages. ISBN 0-19-927069-4. Dickens' rank as a mega-star was as much due to his readings as to his fiction and journalism. Indeed, one must remember Dickens the showman before...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
- Writer Max Gallo joins Academie Francaise
- PARIS AFP — French writer and historian, Max Gallo, was elected Thursday to join the prestigious Academie Francaise, a centuries-old panel of sages that acts as custodian of the French language. The 75-year-old, who made a name as a prolific author of historical fiction, has also written several dozen...
- Research articles 2007-05-31
- New Fiction
- Susan Coll’s new novel about the top-tier college-admissions game tries hard and amiably, but it needs to be wait-listed behind worthier spring fiction. Acceptance follows the luck of some affluent suburban-D.C. high-school seniors, including “AP Harry,” a charmless version of Michael J. Fox’s old Family Ties character, a kid so...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Beckham, Rowling books among hardest to finish: poll
- LONDON AFP — Bestsellers by Bill Clinton, J.K. Rowling and David Beckham are among the books Britons find hardest to finish reading, according to a survey published Monday. Although the average reader spends more than 4,000 pounds (5,890 euros, 7,760 dollars) on books in their lifetime, 55 percent admit...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
- Fiction, in brief
- Travels in the Scriptorium By Paul Auster Henry Holt, 160 pp., $22 Paul Auster's slim novel is set in a limited terrain: one day in the life of a mysterious man known only as Mr. Blank, who's either...
- Research articles 2007-03-08
- New BBC show explores 'spec-fi'
- THE ELEVENTH HOUR. 9 tonight, BBC America. THERE ARE THOSE who prefer the term "speculative fiction" to "science fiction," and I don't usually bother arguing with them, other than to point out that fiction, by its very nature, is speculative. But then I come across something like "The Eleventh Hour,"...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- Out of Character
- No tricks,” Raymond Carver crisply enjoined the prospective writer. “At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction … I tend to look for cover.” Carver was, as everybody knows, a mentor, friend, and admirer of Richard Ford; yet one can’t help wondering whether Ford’s...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Diary.
- Nothing is stranger than fiction Forbes Magazine has announced its annual breakdown of the 15 richest fictional characters. Number one is orphan Annie's adopted Daddy, Warbucks, a former lieutenant general whose estimated $36.2bn fortune might be boosted by the Iraq war. Other top toons...
- Research articles 2006-11-27
- Will-powered comic fantasy confusing.(Time Out!)(Movie review)
- Byline: Dann Gire Daily Herald Film Critic "Stranger Than Fiction" * * 1/2 out of four Opens today Starring As Will Ferrell Harold Crick Emma Thompson Kay Eiffel ...
- Research articles 2006-11-10
- 'Fiction' writes the book on originality, intrigue
- Stranger Than Fiction Director: Marc Forster Stars: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah Distributor: Columbia Pictures Rating: PG-13 for some disturbing images, sexuality, brief language and nudity Running time: 1 hour, 53 minutes Opens nationwide today --- Besides being inventive and witty, Stranger Than Fiction is...
- Research articles 2006-11-10
- There's something unsavory about 'Jack's Widow'
- Jack's Widow By Eve Pollard HarperCollins, 288 pp. $24.95 --- Jackie 007? You'd better believe it in Jack's Widow, a work of fiction that imagines the late first lady's life after her husband's assassination. Once widowed, Jackie is asked by the CIA to discreetly welcome foreign visitors to her home...
- Research articles 2006-11-07
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