John Banville

Secrets in a Seattle suburb and the return of Tess Monaghan

nwsource.com     Mar 7, 2008   1 related          

Laura Lippman is a familiar name among discerning crime-fiction fans — she's won nearly every prize out there, and long may she run. ... Lippman likes to alternate dark stand-alone novels with her series starring Baltimore private eye Tess Monaghan. (Ex-reporter Lippman...                    

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Larkin around the literary establishment

guardian.co.uk     Mar 5, 2008   4 related          

Over two decades since his death, Philip Larkin's reputation seems to have returned to its former heights, albeit with a darker, more subversive element ... Radio 4's entertaining Archive Hour last Saturday devoted itself to some previously unheard recordings of Philip...                    

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Spring Books Preview: Martin Amis, Plane Speaking

villagevoice.com     Mar 4, 2008          

Flying himself into the world of geopolitics ... Muslims, 9/11, dashing cigarettes: Amis Paulo Fridman/Corbis Pucker Up: Tristan Taormino Down in Front: Yes, Dave Grohl Can Rock the Garden (3) Down in Front: Rob Harvilla President Bloomberg? Not This Bad Apple (3) Nat...                    

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books in brief // crime

baltimoresun.com     Mar 2, 2008   1 related          

THE SILVER SWAN By Benjamin Black Holt / 290 pages / $25 ... THE SILVER SWANBy Benjamin Black Holt / 290 pages / $25 Whenever a writer of literary fiction decides to move into mystery territory, it's almost a guarantee there will be a new battle on the genre war front....                    

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Tyranny, complicity, betrayal

baltimoresun.com     Mar 2, 2008          

The Talmudic tractate Pirke Avot, one of the West's great treasuries of practical ethics, enjoins its readers: "Love work, hate dominance over others and seek no intimacy with the ruling powers." Ceridwen Dovey's taut and remarkably self-assured first novel, Blood Kin,...                    

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Dmitri Nabokov turns to his dead father for advice on whether to burn the author's last,...

slate.com     Feb 28, 2008   3 related          

The latest chapter in the intrigue surrounding The Original of Laura, the elusive, unfinished, unpublished final work of Vladimir Nabokov—a chapter that has unfolded since I last wrote about Laura in Slate—turns out to be a kind of ghost story.[more ...]                    

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Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Review)

popmatters.com     Feb 27, 2008          

When Christine Falls appeared as a 2007 hardcover, it was hailed as a “genre jumper”, a hotly contested term for a book doing just that, in this case, attracting readers normally not drawn to crime novels. That Benjamin Black is Booker winner John Banville’s alter ego...                    

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50 Best Crime Novels

thebookaholic.blogspot.com     Feb 25, 2008   1 related          

The Sunday Telegraph has a list of the top 50 authors of crime fiction selected by their staff. It also comes with reading suggestions which I've listed below :GK Chesterton - Black Cherry Blues (1989)Jim Thompson - Maximum Bob (1991)There's much more about each author on...                    

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Scandal Proof Your Writing

thebookaholic.blogspot.com     Feb 19, 2008          

Plagiarism scandals. Memoirs that turn out to be a little factually suspect.Levi Asher on the Guardian blog reckons journalists and publishers ... must must take some of the blame for the lack of clarity regarding truth in authorship ...and offers the following guidelines...                    

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Doing Business Online? Facts and Fiction

quickonlinetips.com     Feb 19, 2008          

This is a guest post by Alan Johnson. Be sure to claim your free copy of The Online Business Handbook over at TheRatingBlog.com. It should come as no surprise that, based on what they think doing business online is all about, most people believe that it’s all smooth sailing. They most likely...                    

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