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Last Things is an ambitious novel that touches on big themes - the poetry of science and physics; our millennial preoccupation with the end of time; correlations between creativity and insanity; and the allure of mysticism and pagan spirituality. ...
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The 1954 motion picture Salt of the Earth, based on the true story of a New Mexico zinc miners strike, can easily be rented or purchased today on video. However, if you were among the two thousand moviegoers on ...
Television
Other suggested reading: Charles Dicken's David Copperfield (Modern Critical Interpretation Series) (2000), William Golding Last Christmas, Turner Broadcasting and Hallmark Entertainment joined forces for a threadbare adaptation of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol starring Patrick Stewart. The modest budget ...
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Bliss Broyards collection of short stories, My Father, Dancing, is so splendidly nuanced that one is tempted to overstate the books low-keyed charms. In this era of blockbuster bestsellers and publishing "sensations," the small pleasures of Broyards stories are ...
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Ronald Sukenick is one of the leading lights of postmodern literature in the United States. He was a founding member of the Fiction Collective, a famed alternative press started in 1974 and still thriving. His first novel was published ...
Film
The Wages of Fear is a certified classic with one of the most famous plots in film history. Four men undertake a suicide mission to earn $2,000 apiece by driving two trucks loaded with dangerously unstable nitroglycerine 300 miles ...
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100% Cotton dyed Noren. Handmade in Japan. a limited production noren for the serious noren enthusiast What are we to make of the curious literary career of David Foster Wallace? The success of his 1,079-page doorstop of a ...
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Boucle with Renova and Fringe Trim Pants Set by P.I. Sport N.Y. Joseph Heller reportedly finished writing Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man just before his death last December at the age ...
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Perhaps we shouldnt be surprised that Saul Bellow at 84 has written a novel as graceful and funny as Ravelstein. But who could have predicted that he would also stir up a hornets nest of controversy? The character of ...
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John Fuegi's 1994 biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is an exhaustive monument to academic scholarship gone awry. At over 700 pages (including nearly 100 pages of endnotes), Brecht and Company is the longest full-scale Brecht biography in print. It ...