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First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated May 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Grab a spot on the sand and dig in to a good book

Posted to: Entertainment SpotlightThe Virginian-PilotOn the beach, a book must compete with the wind, kids, bikinis, and six-packs and heat of varying ilks to hold the reader's attention. We think these will do it."Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin ... [ Published May 27 2012 by HamptonRoads.com ]

Entities: Adelaide (Australia), Chris Cleave, Bandicoot, Paul Theroux

First Reported May 27 2012 - Updated May 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Paul Theroux

The Balgger's Guide To: The Hay Festival

Founded in 1988 by local man Peter Florence, the festival is now a literary mega-brand. Its name is exported to 15 other sites around the world, including the Maldives, Mexico, and India. Some say it has got a bit too big: Barclays Bank sponsors a venue ... [ Published May 27 2012 by The Independent ]

Entities: Paul Theroux, Van Morrison, Christopher Hitchens

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Peace Corps

Theroux relies on stale tropes in new novel of Westerner's flight to Africa

-"The Lower River," by Paul Theroux; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (336 pages, $25)When Ellis Hock's wife gives him a smartphone for his 62nd birthday, he shrugs it off, saying he's fine with his clamshell-style one. To bring Hock, the third-generation proprietor ... [ Published May 23 2012 by San Luis Obispo.com ]

Entities: Paul Theroux, Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), Malawi, Peace Corps

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Latest DVDs, CDs, books: May 22

A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:DVDS"The Woman in Black" (PG-13): A struggling young lawyer ("Harry Potter's" Daniel Radcliffe), dispatched to a remote British village, battles a vengeful ghost in an old-fashioned, Victorian-era ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Las Vegas Review Journal ]

Entities: L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Alyson Noel, F. Paul Wilson, Nicolas Flamel

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Dragon School

The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer: review

Pico Iyer's 'The Man Within My Head' is a maladroit and sentimental Greene-tinged memoir This is a very peculiar book. For much of his life the writer and journalist Pico Iyer has been haunted by Graham Greene almost literally so. In his youth, he read ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Telegraph ]

Entities: Pico Iyer, Graham Greene, Paul Theroux, Dragon School, Bogota

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 3 Documents

The Lower River by Paul Theroux

Contents: Main the Best the Rest Review Index Links to e-mail us: Our Assessment:B+ : dark horror tale; Theroux in fine formPlease note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual ... [ Published May 19 2012 by Complete Review ]

Entities: Paul Theroux, Medford (Massachusetts, United States), Attaché, Dissolution

First Reported May 19 2012 - Updated May 19 2012 - 1 Documents

Pico Iyer

The Man Within My Head, By Pico Iyer

Iyer's self-identification with Greene, whom he never met but who became the enduring, explaining voice inside his head, seems at first to be the tripartite young writer's identification. Admirer, literary son and pretender, Iyer comes at his subject ... [ Published May 19 2012 by The Independent ]

Entities: Pico Iyer, Friendship, Henry Miles

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Retracing His Steps

In Paul Theroux’s novel, an American seeks a fresh start in Africa after a 40-year absence. ... [ Published May 18 2012 by New York Times ]

Entities: Paul Theroux

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 2 Documents

From Steinbeck to Steampunk: The Day the American Novel Died

Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event--the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.John Irving from The Fourth Hand.Is the Golden Age of American Literature dead? The above quote is from the opening line of ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Blogcritics.org ]

Entities: Lawrence Joseph, Paul Theroux, Ken Kesey, Jim Harrison

First Reported May 08 2012 - Updated May 08 2012 - 1 Documents

The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux – review

By Victoria Segal"If you're afraid of loneliness, don't travel": Theroux's adaptation of Chekhov's quote about marriage might bear witness to his belief in the importance of the solo voyage, but it doesn't fit the hectic tone of this miscellany, as full ... [ Published May 08 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Paul Theroux, Freya Stark, Paul Bowles

First Reported Apr 15 2012 - Updated Apr 15 2012 - 1 Documents

Katy Guest: Giving away books is a recipe for disaster, Nigella

The unwitting mathom-swap came to light when Ms Waugh decided to embarrass her friend on Twitter. "OK this is complicated. But worth it." she wrote. "So I give a copy of my novel to a friend. Let's call her Nigella... Another friend notices a gap in my ... [ Published Apr 15 2012 by The Independent ]

Entities: Nigella, Nigella Lawson, eBay Inc, Disaster

First Reported Apr 12 2012 - Updated Apr 12 2012 - 1 Documents

How I caught my friend Nigella in a sneaky act of internet selling

Ditching unwanted gifts can be perilous as the Domestic Goddess Nigella Lawson found. I suspect everyone has at some stage handed on an unwanted present. However, a recent incident has shown me the potential dangers of such an innocent action. It all ... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Telegraph ]

Entities: Nigella, Paul Theroux, Nigella Lawson

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Grab a spot on the sand and dig in to a good book [ Published May 27 2012 by HamptonRoads.com ]
The Balgger's Guide To: The Hay Festival [ Published May 27 2012 by The Independent ]
Theroux relies on stale tropes in new novel of ... [ Published May 23 2012 by San Luis Obispo.com ]
Latest DVDs, CDs, books: May 22 [ Published May 22 2012 by Las Vegas Review Journal ]
The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer: review [ Published May 22 2012 by Telegraph ]
The Lower River by Paul Theroux [ Published May 19 2012 by Complete Review ]
The Lower River [ Published May 19 2012 by New York Times ]
The Man Within My Head, By Pico Iyer [ Published May 19 2012 by The Independent ]
‘The Lower River,’ a Novel by Paul Theroux [ Published May 18 2012 by New York Times ]
Retracing His Steps [ Published May 18 2012 by New York Times ]
From Steinbeck to Steampunk: The Day the Americ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Blogcritics.org ]
The Day the American Novel Died [ Published May 11 2012 by Blogcritics.org ]
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux – review [ Published May 08 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
AT THE LIBRARY, MAY 3: Looking for a good book?... [ Published May 03 2012 by Foxboro Reporter ]
The Man within My Head by Pico Iyer: review [ Published Apr 30 2012 by Telegraph ]
Gene Logsdon and Melissa Coleman write personal... [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Cleveland Live ]
New Book ‘Hookers and Blow’ Details an Exhilara... [ Published Apr 20 2012 by PRWeb ]
Nordic exposure [ Published Apr 20 2012 by WA Today ]
Katy Guest: Giving away books is a recipe for d... [ Published Apr 15 2012 by The Independent ]
How I caught my friend Nigella in a sneaky act ... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Telegraph ]
Nigella Lawson in the soup as she's caught sell... [ Published Apr 11 2012 by Irish Independent ]
Lovereading New Books for Easter [ Published Apr 04 2012 by Lovereading ]
Chatelaine book club: April's best books [ Published Apr 03 2012 by Chatelaine ]
Glenn Patterson's top 10 Belfast novels [ Published Mar 28 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Rereading: Fireflies and The Chip-Chip Gatherer... [ Published Mar 23 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Actor Ben Gazzara dead at 81 [ Published Feb 04 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ]
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk by F Scott Fitzg... [ Published Jan 29 2012 by Observer ]
Byliner Launches Its New Byliner Fiction Imprin... [ Published Dec 05 2011 by PRWeb ]
I Got Off The Beaten Path (But So Did Everyone ... [ Published Nov 03 2011 by Sun Magazine ]

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Actor Ben Gazzara dead at 81 [ Published Feb 04 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday in Manhattan. ...