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| This warmly told biography is a joyous examination of Gertrude Stein's life and legacy (with a nice extended section devoted to her partner Alice B. Toklas). As a longtime Stein enthusiast who's been repeatedly frustrated by other writers' snarky ins ...more | |
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| If you only know Paul Schrader as the brilliant screenwriter-director behind "American Gigolo," "Light Sleeper," and "Affliction," you're in for a treat with this passionate film theory book focused on three world-renowned auteurs with a spiritual be ...more | |
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Diabolically Good: The Movie Career and Afterlife of Horror Icon Vincent Price:
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| "Shoot!" is a slow read. But is that such a bad thing? Must every novel be a page-turner? It took me awhile to get through Pirandello's pseudo-journals of a cinematographer, who finds a fortune but not love, by turning the crank of a manual camera. T ...more | |
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| I came to this novel because I was so enamored of "Roderick Hudson" and the title character of "Princess Casamassima" was a fascinating component of that earlier book. Unfortunately, she's less so here. More than anything, this sequel feels like Jame ...more | |
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| It's a risky proposition when a novelist chooses to have a poet or a lyricist as one of the main characters. Will the verses hold up? If the writer in question is Sherman Alexie, you can bet your bottom dollar they will. And as if to underscore that ...more | |
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| Of the two novels collected in this paperback composite, the first ("The Diary of a Good Neighbor") is definitely the stronger. Lessing's tale of a fashion magazine editor who finds her world rocked by a random encounter -- then friendship -- with an ...more | |