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A System of Facelessness
In Hope’s Boy, Andrew Bridge tells of his hard road from foster care to Harvard Law School.
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Questions of Identity
“This isn't as warm and fuzzy as those earlier books,” Charles Baxter comments, somewhat ruefully, about his latest novel, The Soul Thief (Pantheon), as we eat lunch in a trendy Minneapolis restaurant above the Walker Art Center.
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Smoking in the Boys' Room
Self-described “pulp writer” Christa Faust, who recently won an award for her novelization of the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane, celebrates another coup with Money Shot: the first female writer in Dorchester’s neo-noir Hard Case Crime imprint. How does it feel to break into the Hard Case Crime boys’ club? It’s really fantastic, almost unreal.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 12/3/2007
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Pullman's Controversial Compass Sails into Theaters
New Line Cinema’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel The Golden Compass had its world premiere in London Tuesday night and has already received a four-star review from The Guardian. The author and director have been under fire over the controversial religious content in Pullman’s books as well as the celluloid interpretation, which debuts here on December 7.
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Comics Briefly
2008 Eisners Judges Named; Vampire Writing Contest; Adrian Tomine at Giant Robot NY; Bryan Lee O'Malley, Hope; Larson Signing;Shooting War Signings ; Fletcher Hanks at Rocketship; Naruto on Direct2Drive; and Comics Holiday Shopping
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Christine Feehan Romances Manga Fans
The popular fantasy-romance novelist is the latest high-profile prose name to crossover to comics.
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Want to Understand the Writers' Strike? Read this Book
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: A History of American Screenwriting Marc Norman. Harmony, $27 (560p) ISBN 978-0-307-38339-6 Just in time to put the current Writers Guild of America strike into perspective comes this sprawling, rollicking and very thorough history of that notoriously unappreciated figure, the Hollywood scribe.
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 11/26
Fans of comedy, movies, football and politics take note: not only does this week's list cover books from Steve Martin, Dan Rooney, Lou Dobbs, Alan Alda and Alan Greenspan, it features the voice talent of Joe Mantegna.
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 11/26/2007
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Children's Books: Week of 11/23/2007
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 11/26/2007
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Mike Richardson Gets Back on the Horse
When he's not presiding over the Dark Horse empire, publisher Mike Richardson writes and publishes his own comics.
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Tokyopop Grabs Dropped ADV Manga
Tokyopop has acquired the licenses of three titles dropped by ADV last year and plans new translations.
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Lat's Malaysian Memories
The popular Malaysian cartoonist Lat is gaining an American following with a series of graphic novels from First Second.
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Hembeck: Court Jester of Comics
Comics humorist Fred Hembeck is back with a 900-page omnibus covering 30 years of his work.
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Comics Briefly
Panelists, Sponsors Join ICv2 Confab; KCC, NYCC Join Forces; Yen Press Offers Boys Love; Movie Screenings at NYAF; Takehiko Inoue In NYC; and G4TV Reviews New Comics
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On the Road with Dorothea Lasky
When Wave Books published Dorothea Lasky’s debut collection, Awe, Lasky wasn’t sure she’d be able to mount a full scale tour to support the release. She decided, instead, to hold readings in different rooms of her house over the course of a month, invite a few close friends, then film the events and post them to her website, calling it her “tiny tour.”
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 11/19/2007
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An Introspective Inspector
Inspector Alan Banks and his on-again-off-again partner and lover, Annie Cabbot, make flawed but empathetic heroes in Friend of the Devil, Robinson's 17th suspense novel to feature the Yorkshire policeman.



