books Arresting development 01/02/2009 Now that the postmodernists have had their day, it's not surprising that their favorite stylistic tricks are beginning to seem as quaint and mannered as the wave-swept rocks, ruined monuments and bottomless lakes of the Romantics.
Stock market's short, sharp shocks 01/02/2009 - "Panic" is packaged to look like Michael Lewis' own 21-year chronicle of financial hysteria, beginning with the crash of October 1987.
No. 2 NBA pick a murder victim 01/02/2009 - Denver author Robert Greer's latest book, "Blackbird, Farewell," is subtitled "A CJ Floyd novel." This is somewhat of a misnomer since this eighth novel "featuring" Floyd actually gives center stage to Damion Madrid, Floyd's godson.
New chapter sobering, but story isn't over 01/02/2009 - As we enter a new year, one would hope the news in publishing would be better. Instead, just in time for Christmas, a virtual landslide of disastrous news came out of New York — and things only seem to be getting worse as time goes by.
"Road" less traveled 01/02/2009 - Among the finalists for the 1962 National Book Award in fiction were three iconic first novels: Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer" (the eventual winner), Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" and Richard Yates' "Revolutionary Road." Even now, that seems remarkable, a signifier of American literature and culture in transition, an indication of the changing of the guard.
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