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Friday Links
16 hours ago
by jacobpedia
The posting of these links was delayed while Ben Nelson decided whether or not he could support them as written: There is an update on the search for Federico Garcia Lorca. Excavators found nothing at the site where he was allegedly buried. Apparently, initial reports of the discovery of human remai ...
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Portnoy
1 day ago
by rideyourpony
I’m reading Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth. The rambling disjointed manic style threw me at first but I’ve come to admire it. As for the story, not that I personally know what the 1960s were like, but I imagine the content was pretty out there for its time – published in 1967. It makes me laugh, ...
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Dipping My Toe Into the GMNs
1 day ago
by sonyachung
17 December 2009 David Foster Wallace referred to the three male writers who “dominated postwar American fiction” — Roth, Updike, Mailer — as the GMNs: the Great Male Narcissists. I have managed to not read any of them. Until now. Just finished Roth’s Everyman – a recommendation from a trusted (fema ...
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Veiled References to Philip Roth on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
1 day ago
by CPO
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 appreci ...
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Top Five Books of 2009
1 day ago
by jacobpedia
My reading tastes take me all over the place, both in terms of content and era. These are the best books I read this year, regardless of publication date. 1) Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove. This was my second time through Lonesome Dove but the first in ten years. It is even better than I remembered. ...
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Hollywood Legends Option Roth’s Latest
1 day ago
by Taylor Bright
It’s just a day for books turning into movies. Three Hollywood veterans have teamed up to bring Philip Roth’s The Humbling to the silver screen. Three Hollywood legends — actually four if you count the publicist involved, the venerable Pat Kingsley — are working to bring Philip Roth’s most recent no ...
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Philip Roth – The Dying Animal
1 day ago
by jacobpedia
“It’s sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.” The Dying Animal (2001) marked the beginning of a change in Philip Roth’s style. At just over 150 pages in the paperback edition, The Dying Animal is a novella about a single romantic affair of David Kepesh, the protagonist of this and two previo ...
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Al Pacino levará adaptação de romance para as telonas
1 day ago
by Denise
O ator Al Pacino acaba de comprar os direitos do romance The Humbling, de Philip Roth, que será adaptado por Buck Henry para os cinemas, e terá direção de Barry Levinsonpois. O livro conta a história de um homem mais velho, que será vivido por Pacino, que encontra a esperança da renovação por meio d ...
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THE HUMBLING Al Pacino
2 days ago
by Rama
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 K ...
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