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• The Most Anticipated Books of 2010

  
  Daily Contributor — Authority: 534
  For us bookworms and lovers of great literature, the arrival of the new year means another 365 days, or roughly 52 weeks, to spend lying in bed or relaxing at our favorite coffee shops accompanied by books that have caught our fancies. It means, in addition to reading the ones that we have so far collected, looking ...
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• Is The Humbling the end for Philip Roth? | Jonathan Jones

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 129
  The novelists chronicle of spent talent seems closer to truth than fiction. Is it all over for his long and courageous career? Being given the new Philip Roth novel for Christmas used to be a thrill. I remember Christmas 2004, reading his latest, The Plot Against America , as I sat by the tree. But since then, ...
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• Oh Yeah, Then Pornography Happened

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 568
  Kerry, I agree with you that the "daring" misogynist sexuality portrayed by literary lions of yesteryear that get Roiphe all excited has disappeared because the novelty has worn off. Roiphe, in her favorite note that she likes to hit, blames feminism for being prudish, an argument that relies on the questionable ...
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• The Anxiety of Influence

  
  biblioklept — Authority: 123
  In her essay “The Naked and the Conflicted,” published in today’s New York Times , Katie Roiphe suggests that “we are awfully cavalier about the Great Male Novelists of the last century. It has become popular to denounce those authors, and more particularly to deride the sex scenes in their novels.” By ...
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• Book of the Week: "Summertime"

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 568
  J.M. Coetzees new novel, the purportedly autobiographical Summertime , is an odd book, composed mainly of transcripts of interviews that a fictional biographer, Vincent, conducts after Coetzees death. Coetzee narrated his two memoirs, Boyhood and Youth , in the third person, but here Coetzee the author ...
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• AL PACINO BUYS SCREEN RIGHTS TO PHILIP ROTH NOVEL "THE HUMBLING"

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Al Pacino is taking matters into his own hands. Faced with a dearth of good screen roles for older leading men, Pacino has personally optioned the rights to Philip Roths latest novel, The Humbling. Pacino will star as a washed up stage actor who reinvigorates his life through a relationship with a younger woman. ...
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• Table for one? Five tips for solo diners

  
  Gadling — Authority: 686
  Filed under: Food and Drink Traveling by yourself can be an incredibly rewarding and liberating experience, but as any solo traveler can tell you, its not always rainbows and sunshine. There can also be times of acute loneliness when you wonder, "Just what in the hell am I doing here alone?" From my experience, ...
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• The College Novel

  
  Eleventh Stack — Authority: 430
  I’ve long thought college life to be a great subject for fiction writing, but until recently I never knew that there is a recognized ”college novel” genre. It was first brought to my attention two weeks ago when a library patron asked me for an old book called The College Novel in America   ...
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• Veiled References to Philip Roth on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

  
  The Blog at 16th and Q — Authority: 117
  Okay. Pop quiz for all you careful readers of Philip Roth out there. Where did Philip, as well as Nathan Zuckerman and Alexander Portnoy go to elementary school back in the ole Weequahic neighborhood of Newark, NJ?If you answered Chancellor Avenue School, you are correct and thus will fully appreciate this bit from ...
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• THE HUMBLING Al Pacino

  
  Rama's Screen — Authority: 154
  After watching Everybody’s Fine , I was glad that Robert De Niro found his comeback gig and he gave his best performance in years. Which brings me to wonder if the same luck could happen to my favorite character actor of all time, Al Pacino . Can he remove the dirt that were 88 Minutes and Righteous Kill ? ...
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• Barry Levinson to Direct Al Pacino in The Humbling

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 711
  Oh, goodie, its another Philip Roth adaptation about an aging man awakened in life through an affair with a much younger woman! This one is based on Roths latest, The Humbling , and while Im sure the writing in the novel is great as usual, I cant help but think the movie version will be more of the same old man with ...
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• Arts Roundup: Big Bubble in the Sky Edition

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 144
  Hello! Hirshhorn director Richard Koshalek wants to put a giant bubble on top of the museum. Wuh? Writing in the New York Times , architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff details a plan for a blue, 145-foot inflatable structure (he describes it as a multipurpose meeting hall) that would bloom from the ...
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• Al Pacino, Barry Levinson and Buck Henry Team Up on a Roth Tale

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 736
  Three Hollywood legends are working to bring Philip Roths most recent novel to the multiplex.
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• Rumours of the Death of the Novel Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 549
  In light of Philip Roths doomsaying, and flatmancrooked.coms ebook and web serialisation coverage, Megan Power, Kip Tobin and Andy Johnson wade in to the death of the novel debate.
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