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NEW IN PAPERBACK
SCHULZ AND PEANUTS, by David Michaelis (Harper Perennial, $19.95). A biography of the cartoonist who transformed the funny pages. THE UNCOMMON READER, by Alan Bennett (Picador, $12). Imagining Queen Elizabeth as a voracious consumer of fiction. HUMPTY...Tags: Bette Davis
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In the Web edition
Read 2008 Tribune book reviews at chicagotribune.com/books. Check out reviews of these books at the same Web site: "Travel Writing," by Peter Ferry "The Condition," by Jennifer Haigh "Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s," edited by... -
'The Valley-Westside War' by Harry Turtledove
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLOS ANGELES, the playwright and performance artist Luis Alfaro once said, is "like a bunch of little border towns, and you have to cross over those borders. If you figure out the dynamics of each little border town, you can get along well." He's right...Tags: Santa Monica, Fiction, Nuclear Policy, Dorothy Parker, Inglewood
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"Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s," edited by Jonathan Lethem
Boston GlobeIs Philip K. Dick the father of the paranoid style in American fiction? "Every pay phone in the world was tapped," a character thinks in "A Scanner Darkly." "Or if it wasn't some crew somewhere just hadn't gotten around to it." As it happens, that...Tags: Life on Mars, Wars and Interventions, Illnesses, United Nations, Fiction
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'First Stop in the New World' by David Lida
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 7, 2008 How many times have you picked up a memoir by some American or European nomad living the good life abroad, and wanted to toss the entire volume out the window after about, oh, two paragraphs? You know the type of book: a self-congratulatory...Tags: Crimes, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Italo Calvino, Diseases, Diego Rivera
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Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson
Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...Tags: Richard Hofstadter, Dashiell Hammett, Health and Safety at School, Daniel Defoe, Nicholas Ray
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'The Reel Stuff' by Brian Thomsen and Martin H. Greenberg
Special to The TimesJune 12, 2008 In "The Reel Stuff," Brian Thomsen and Martin H. Greenberg have gathered an eclectic collection of fantasy and horror stories gone Hollywood that offers an opportunity to examine how these speculative tales were adapted for the screen. The...Tags: Clive Barker, Christopher Lee, Book, Wolfgang Petersen, Fiction
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The importance of being Alanis
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterALANIS MORISSETTE has felt heartbreak before, as anyone who's listened to her ripped-from-life songs knows. But last year's split with her fiancé, actor Ryan Reynolds, turned out to be the big one. "I think it's the straw that breaks the camel's back,"...Tags: Alanis Morissette, Los Angeles, Celebrity, Music Industry, Music
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Will Spielberg take a walk on the wild side?
Special to The TimesSteven Spielberg, who at 22 was hired by Universal to a long-term contract, started out his career as the teacher's pet of the Movie Brat generation. With the unveiling of his first Indiana Jones escapade in 19 years today at Cannes, he's proffering yet...Tags: John Cassavetes, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Diseases, Brian de Palma, Steven Spielberg
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'Make Room! Make Room!'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterApril 10, 2008 Pity the dystopian. No matter how far-reaching his or her imagination, reality always trumps it in the end. Take "Make Room! Make Room!," Harry Harrison's novel of New York collapsing beneath the strain of overpopulation, 35 million...Tags: Charlton Heston, Crimes, John Carpenter, Manhattan (New York City), Health Treatments
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The essentials: Top ten science fiction and fantasy books
amNY.comBelieve it or not, some of the best and most thought-provoking contemporary writing can be found in the science fiction/fantasy section of your local bookstores. Here are books and collections to get you started. J.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings...Tags: Harry Potter, Orson Scott Card, Fiction, Isaac Asimov
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The what-might-have-been genre
Mysteries and thrillers hinge on basic questions: whodunit, whydunit and the dreaded had-I-but-known. Then there's what-might-have-been, which is the domain of thrillers that recount alternate histories. Instead of fashioning chaos out of order in a world...Tags: Crimes, Fiction, Alaska, Philip Roth, Adolf Hitler
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