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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Writers</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/writers/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21392</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21392#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brooklyn]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21392</guid> <description><![CDATA[In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America most talented writers, among them figures like Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Thomas Wolfe, Bernard Malamud, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and Arthur Miller.  They, among many other notables, were residents in that “outlandish place,” and, it would seem, most often by choice!]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21392/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21230</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21230#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21230</guid> <description><![CDATA[The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was not particularly fond of his sons. Charley, his eldest, he deemed to be suffering from a “lassitude of character” and he did not see much hope for the others. He worried they might metamorphose into his father or his brothers, relying on him for handouts. And he was becoming thoroughly sick of Catherine.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21230/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19795</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19795#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blue Nights]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joan Didion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19795</guid> <description><![CDATA[We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the beach sun” and an unearthly adult sensibility. At the age of 5, she called the state psychiatric facility to “find out what she needed to do if she was going crazy;” soon after, she called Twentieth-Century Fox to “find out what she needed to do to be a star.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19795/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20948</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20948#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pauline Kael]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20948</guid> <description><![CDATA[So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she was not afraid of sex, drugs or Woody Allen. Cigarettes and bourbon were her loyal companions. The East Coast establishment and prissy editors her enemies. As Jerry Lewis said, she was a “dirty old broad.” But he also called her “the most qualified critic in the world. “ Both, I think, she would have perceived as compliments.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20948/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20918</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20918#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20918</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of human misery and redemption in the minds of the literary public. Conscious of how the accompanying illustrations to his text would help in this respect, Dickens worked very closely with the artists who provided these memorable pictures.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20918/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20598</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20598#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:42:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Band Of Brothers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Bronson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George Clooney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ides Of March]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies action]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North by Northwest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ryan Gosling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shakespeare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Where Eagles Dare]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20598</guid> <description><![CDATA[The practice of blessing mass entertainment with the bard's prose confers a kind of loftiness upon it, or at least that must be the idea. A quick glance indicates that Shakespeare has provided titles for an alarming number of <em>Star Trek</em> episodes, just for starters. This week, lend your ears to Brett Harrison Davinger and me (Dan Fields) as we look at some of our favorite films to borrow a title from the works of Shakespeare.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20598/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19605</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19605#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jane Austen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vampires]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19605</guid> <description><![CDATA[At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen would be more exciting if it had vampires in it.  During it, we discover that in the first draft of <em>Mansfield Park</em>, Fanny was, in fact, one of said bloodthirsty beasties.  Did anyone ever read <em>Mansfield Park</em> and think “Not bad, but it could do with more of the undead”?]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19605/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Virginia Woolf  by Alexandra Harris</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20370</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20370#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20370</guid> <description><![CDATA[Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past, specifically the Victorian milieu of her childhood. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was the editor of the prestigious <em>Dictionary of National Biography</em> and a personification of the Victorian <em>pater familias</em>. Woolf both loved and rebelled against him. She suffered a severe nervous breakdown following his death in 1904. Yet it was not until her father died, that she was able to liberate her emotions to the point where she could begin a serious career as a writer.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20370/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20026</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20026#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:18:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children's Literature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edward Gorey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20026</guid> <description><![CDATA[Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The works of Jorge Luis Borges, the wonders of Japanese court poetry, the inadequacy of <em>The Yellow Submarine</em> – having found a sympathetic spirit, Gorey let loose a torrent of opinions about anything in his path.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20026/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Trailer Watch: Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Hugo</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18531</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18531#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:25:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children's Literature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ben kingsley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chloë Grace Moretz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[films fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hugo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hugo Cabret]]></category> <category><![CDATA[literary adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie trailer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacha baron cohen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Invention Of Hugo Cabret]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trailer]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18531</guid> <description><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese, Hollywood titan, enjoys a special reputation for directing violent, foul-mouthed crime flicks. Admittedly, he does this very well, but the notoriety of movies like Taxi Driver, Casino, and most recently The Departed tends to eclipse the true diversity and scope of his body of work. Even when his choice of material seems misguided, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18531/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker</title><link>http://calitreview.com/17928</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/17928#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gay and Lesbian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graphic Novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Candyman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clive Barker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hellraiser]]></category> <category><![CDATA[midnight meat train]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nightbreed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[screenwriting]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=17928</guid> <description><![CDATA[Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the screen to the stage to the canvas to the console. However, film fans know him particularly as a horror master. There is so much undermined material for gifted fantasy filmmakers that perhaps we could dispense with further <em>Candyman</em> sequels and retire the <em>Hellraiser</em> juggernaut with contented hearts, and enjoy a Clive Barker renaissance clad in all new colors.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/17928/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Valentine&#8217;s Day Fallout, Chapter Two: Love Most Peculiar in My Dog Tulip</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14182</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14182#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[animation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[J. R. Ackerley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies animated]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies animation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies independent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[My Dog Tulip]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Yorker Films]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14182</guid> <description><![CDATA[It is difficult to describe the feeling that <em>My Dog Tulip</em> leaves in one's heart once the lights come up. The best answer is that you will probably feel several, which may contradict one another. That, and not really the questionable content, is what makes it a love story for grown-ups.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/14182/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13205</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13205#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brighton Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crime movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gangster movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graham Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Helen Mirren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Hurt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Attenborough]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rowan Joffé]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rown Joffe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Riley]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13205</guid> <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his debut, he has selected an auspiciously high-profile story. <em>Brighton Rock</em>, adapted from Graham Greene's 1938 novel, is a captivating crime thriller and a chilling exploration of the human capacity for love, betrayal and violence. If all goes right, this will be one beautiful and scary film.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13205/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Sherlock Holmes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13060</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13060#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arthur conan doyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hartswood Films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jude Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Freeman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sir arthur conan doyle]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13060</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character still has potential in a new context. The only rule is not to stray from the unique faculties that make Sherlock such a distinctive and popular hero. If the story's focus ceases to be the detective's brilliant deductive logic, then the magic is lost and the character wasted. If, however, due attention and respect are paid to this detail, the rest is free and open to broader interpretation. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13060/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tom Russell: American Primitive Man</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13088</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13088#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Performing Arts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Westerns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[country music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cowboy music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[folk music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ian Tyson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Iris DeMent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[live music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Marty Robbins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ramblin' Jack Elliott]]></category> <category><![CDATA[recording artist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Texas music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Russell]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13088</guid> <description><![CDATA[Every Tom Russell song has something to say about the human heart. In each voice he invokes there are universal echoes of love, doubt, weakness, fear, restlessness and faith. The figure of the wanderer – whether soldier, cowboy, nomad, pioneer, outcast or pilgrim – passes again and again through his work.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13088/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bret Easton Ellis: Film requires the male gaze, female directors need not apply</title><link>http://calitreview.com/9109</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/9109#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:15:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Rhodes</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[authors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Director]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bret Easton Ellis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christian Bale]]></category> <category><![CDATA[feminist film theory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Interview]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Laura Mulvey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mary Harron]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movieline]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the male gaze]]></category> <category><![CDATA[women directors]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=9109</guid> <description><![CDATA[Movieline printed an interview with author Bret Easton Ellis, whose most famous work is probably American Psycho, which director Mary Harron translated into a bizarre little film starring Christian Bale in 2000. Bret Easton Ellis in a publicity shot (from here). Ellis’s books are infinitely dark, angry, and sometimes downright shocking. They are about the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/9109/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8815</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8815#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:14:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Shakespeare]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=8815</guid> <description><![CDATA[Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had exalted the spiritual struggles of humankind and celebrated the comedy of errors of our daily lives. In this engaging and well-researched book, James Shapiro charts the course of this pursuit of truth and beauty, arriving at conclusions that reflect both his insightful scholarship and common sense. Amassing an unassailable body of evidence, Shapiro proves that William Shakespeare of Stratford did indeed write the plays and poems credited to him, but not always as a solitary creative genius.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8815/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>15</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Shakespeare&#8217;s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8283</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8283#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Shakespeare]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=8283</guid> <description><![CDATA[I would have thought <em>Shakespeare in Love</em> might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate, but apparently not. Writers are still assuming that Shakespeare, be he lowly or lordly, wrote in some kind of mysterious vacuum, where learning stopped after the age of twenty.  The idea that an Elizabethan dramatist could collaborate with his fellow actors, seek advice from scholars, listen to firsthand accounts from worldly patrons, observe royal scandals from backstage or borrow a bloody book now and again is apparently impossible.  ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8283/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Conversation with Author and McSweeney&#8217;s Editor Paul Collins</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4192</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4192#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:01:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Shakespeare]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4192</guid> <description><![CDATA["I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because of the materials that went into it, in terms of what papers did they have on hand, but because it was [the actors] Heminge and Condell. Because it’s the only two people that were directly involved in the productions, that have ever taken part in pulling together an edition of Shakespeare’s works, and so it’s their presence as much as any identifiable set of documents that made the Folio so important to scholars. They’re all we have in terms of eyewitness editing."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4192/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1590</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1590#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Kelly Hartog</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Love Junkie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rachel Resnick]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1590</guid> <description><![CDATA[It takes an enormous amount of courage for Resnick to put her life story on the page. Her writing is as stripped, raw and intense as her emotions, and at times you don’t want to read further. But you do, anyway, with a kind of abject horror. The two main men that parade through her life, who ultimately woo, use and abuse her are truly the type of guys your mother would warn you to stay far away from. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1590/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s Letters to his Children</title><link>http://calitreview.com/794</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/794#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:32:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rudyard kipling]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=794</guid> <description><![CDATA[An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A Nobelist, a wordmonger, enshrined in Western memory, answer his supporters. All of these Kipling has been, but it is as a father, first and foremost, that he appears in <em>O Beloved Kids</em>.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/794/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George &amp; Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography</title><link>http://calitreview.com/517</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/517#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:12:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John G. Rodwan, Jr.</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[George Orwell]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/writers/517/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United States, perhaps because the book bearing the charge did not become readily available. It made news in Great Britain, where the newly amended memoir of his supposed victim appeared and where one of the novelist’s biographers gave credence to the charge. When I saw a passing mention of the accusation in a book review, it disturbed me and prompted me to dig deeply into the matter.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/517/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Coffee with&#8230; Series</title><link>http://calitreview.com/472</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/472#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:16:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Plato]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/historical-fiction/472/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time with, even if he is, perhaps, more modern Englishman than ancient Greek in some places. As a taste of philosophical ideas <em>Coffee with Aristotle</em> is just right – now if only the longer treatises were as palatable.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/472/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>My Father&#8217;s World</title><link>http://calitreview.com/442</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/442#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:32:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Laura Levitt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/topics/writers/442/</guid> <description><![CDATA[In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who write literature. Novelists, poets, and playwrights are among those ensconced in his pantheon. For my father, literature was not simply a subject he studied formally, but a larger vocation. He haunted bookstores. In Albany he sat at the feet of a man named Lockrow who owned his favorite shop, Lockrow’s Bookstore at 52½ Spring Street.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/442/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views</title><link>http://calitreview.com/315</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/315#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:07:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2008/02/07/notes-from-italy-villains-romance-and-views/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of the Caesars the people here were Aequi, an Italic tribe of rough herders whom the Romans subdued with difficulty. For many centuries, probably millennia, the Aequi practiced transhumance, leading their herds over the Serra in late autumn to spend the winter in pastures in the Liri valley far below, and returning to the uplands for summer.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/315/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lots in a Name</title><link>http://calitreview.com/305</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/305#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:07:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2008/01/21/lots-in-a-name/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero, and “Pierrot”, the Italian clown - an interesting combination of heroism and buffoonery. The name reflects Christie’s practice of presenting Poirot alternately as a figure of fun and a stern emissary of justice. Dorothy L. Sayers balances her detective hero in a similar way – Peter Wimsey’s name has all the connotations of his silly-ass-about-town persona, but he is shadowed by his middle name – “Death.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/305/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Murdering Miss Austen</title><link>http://calitreview.com/292</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/292#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:14:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jane Austen]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/12/06/murdering-miss-austen/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic satire survived the intervening centuries of industrialization, through revolution and war, as well as the whirligig of literary fashions (whose onslaught took down others as great) may finally be deflated or drowned in the crazy waves of idiot’s delights!]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/292/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Solution to History</title><link>http://calitreview.com/264</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/264#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:53:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/03/the-solution-to-history/</guid> <description><![CDATA[These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc of Auneford, Mathew Shardlake, and many others. From a brief survey of the genre, it’s a wonder that anyone noticed when the Black Death took hold, as the inhabitants of Britain had apparently been offing each other in industrial numbers right through the medieval era.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/264/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk</title><link>http://calitreview.com/263</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/263#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:45:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Alex Dueben</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science Fiction and Fantasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cyberpunk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Gibson]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/2007/10/02/william-gibson-the-father-of-cyberpunk/</guid> <description><![CDATA["The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much in the way of writing a novel. My unconscious is what I’m after and my unconscious is not very reliable. It doesn’t pay taxes and it won’t turn up every day to sit in the chair and type for me. I have to turn up and sit in the chair every day and type and occasionally it does turn up."]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/263/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by  Lewis Dabney</title><link>http://calitreview.com/196</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/196#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:11:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ron Capshaw</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Edmund Wilson]]></category> <guid
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