Joan Didion

Andrea Riseborough interview: The devil's in the detail

Published Date: 16 November 2008 She visited Thatcher's old bedroom before sexing up the Iron Lady. So what did Andrea Riseborough do to prepare for TV drama The Devil's Whore? Aidan Smith finds out ON THE train journey to meet...

Late Post publisher Graham is movie focus

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- HBO Films says it may make a movie documenting the life of Katharine Graham, the late U.S. publisher who led The Washington Post during the Watergate years. The Hollywood Reporter said Friday the...

Bob Shallit: Attorney 'teary-eyed' over victory for injured railroad worker

A local attorney is celebrating an eye-popping jury award he received for an injured Union Pacific Railroad employee.The judgment: $48.5 million."I'm told it's the largest ever against a railroad company" under the Federal...

Language Facts and Figures: Begging Some Questions in the Forum

It's time to pay another visit to the Grammar & Composition Forum--where readers post straightforward questions, and I provide the often baffling replies. Question: I frequently correct my daughter's use of the verbs lie and...

Book 336: The Year of Magical Thinking

copyright meloukhia I happened to run into Haddock and family today on my way to the library, and he recommended this book, and the library happened to have it, and I found myself reading it cover to cover in one sitting....

Transom Week In Review: Mary-Kate Olsen at the Accompanied Literary Society; Election Night...

We channeled the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe alongside Josh Lucas, David Schwimmer, Arden Wohl, and Mary-Kate Olsen at the Accompanied Literary Society Halloween party. The art world remembered Robert Rauschenberg at a Coalition...

Literary Critic John Leonard Dies

Author, Culture Whiz And Writing Legend Once Called World's "Smartest Man" Dead At Age 69 (CBS/AP) Literary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors,...

John Leonard Taught Me to Write

Everybody learns to write by ripping off their heroes. I learned to write reviews by ripping off John Leonard, who died last night. I still carry his books around and study them on long subway rides, like Orthodox Jews with...

Joan Didion on Obama: 'We All Have High Hopes, But Who Knows?'

On Wednesday evening, a small, prominent, and somewhat exhausted crowd gathered at the newly refurbished Oak Room to celebrate a screening of After the Party, Australian filmmakers Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley's...

How New York Stacks Up in Foreclosures

First-time residential foreclosures have increased steadily in New York City, particularly in Queens. But compared to, say, L.A. the picture doesn't look quite so grim. October stats courtesy of PropertyShark.

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