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What journalists do in the dark
A dingy yellow light suffuses the film "Capote." It is, if I'm not mistaken, the light of Moral Ambiguity, and I'll bet they even have it labeled that way in...
Timing is everything
If this were, say, 100 years ago, you and your friends might very well be gabbing about the fantastic new novel that just came out. You've heard that it's thrillingly...
Timing is everything
If this were, say, 100 years ago, you and your friends might very well be gabbing about the fantastic new novel that just came out. You've heard that it's thrillingly...
If you don’t fit in, you still have a home in literary New Orleans
Get a load of this guy. He's fat, jobless, lazy, mean to his mama and rude to everybody else. He's crazy-fond of a green hunting cap with retractable earflaps, and...
Sawbones Central
Editor's note: Tempo Road Trips normally encompass only the Midwest, but Julia Keller was traveling recently to North Carolina on another assignment and she happened across this gem of a...
`Don’t make me stop this car’
The annual family car trip dangles in the memory like the sagging spiral of a Shell No-Pest Strip in a gas station bathroom: It's always there. It's a little icky...
Tragic? Yes, but humor triumphs
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince By J.K. Rowling Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic, 660 pages, $29.95 Grief, terrible grief, the kind of bleak and feverish woe that wracks the body and...
Which is witch? ‘Wicked’ author on the book, show
The first sentence sparks a sinuous shiver: A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind's forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself,...
Bradbury straddles generations
The experiment was conducted with scientific rigor, in a controlled environment with no compromising preconceptions. The test: Would Ray Bradbury's stories -- which I loved passionately as a kid --...