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infinite thØught (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
The feather doesn't fit. I have six of these in a little bag that swings from the edge of a bookcase. It's supposed to be bad luck to have peacock feathers in the house, because of the evil eye, but given that I have very little to envy (apart from my complete Patricia Highsmith bookset and my eee of course!), I doubt they'll bring too much devastation to IT Towers. I love peacock feathers for one...
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Box Turtle Bulletin (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
As I was doing some leisurely digging in the university library a few weeks ago, I came across this familiar book review. It appeared fifty years ago this month, in the June 1958 issue of The Mattachine Review. Enjoy! DIRT TAKES A SWEEP THROUGH ITALY THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, by Patricia Highsmith. New York: Coward-McCann, [...]
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http://socialist-blog (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Louis Proyect wrote an interesting story about the crime novels of Patricia Highsmith, the creator of the Tom Ripley series, in Swans Magazine. Tom Ripley is a cynical and amoral character, reflecting the brilliance, sexuality and politics of Highsmith's writing. Read the Swans article to be introduced to an intriguing writer. Ernest Mandel, the great Belgian Marxist economist and Trotskyist
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Renegade Eye (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Louis Proyect wrote an interesting story about the crime novels of Patricia Highsmith, the creator of the Tom Ripley series, in Swans Magazine . Tom Ripley is a cynical and amoral character, reflecting the brilliance, sexuality and politics of Highsmith's writing. Read the Swans article to be introduced to an intriguing writer. Ernest Mandel, the great Belgian Marxist economist and Trotskyist politician,...
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Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
I prefer this list to the one in The Telegraph a while back. Links on the author's name take you to the Times's page about the author (which gives a suggestion as to which book to try); bibliographies are linked to their Euro Crime page: 1. Patricia Highsmith 2. Georges Simenon - Bibliography 3. Agatha Christie - Bibliography 4. Raymond Chandler 5. Elmore Leonard 6. Arthur Conan Doyle - Bibliography...
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Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Hoo-rah! The Times wades into the escalating war on who the greatest crime writer might be, producing its own list of the Top 50 ‘Greatest Crime Writers’, producing something of a shock-horror (appropriately enough, given her subject matter) with its nomination for the greatest, Patricia Highsmith (right). The CAP panel of judging elves would very probably have plumped for Leonard, Chandler and Ellroy...
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
The (U.K.) Telegraph came up with "the perfect library," 110 books across several categories--classics, poetry, literary fiction, romantic fiction, etc.--that comprise the ultimate reading list. Here are the books from the "crime" section: The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith Tom Ripley is one of 20th-century literature's most disturbingly fascinating characters: a suave, charming serial
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Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Apparently Spacebunny and I only have that make up the Perfect Library according to the Telegraph. We're particularly bad on Books That Changed Your World, as Hitchhikers is the only one of the ten I own, although I have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (rolls eyes). History is rather better, as we not only own seven out of the ten, but have all seven right here in my office. Only nine...
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dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Nicola Barker really doesn't have to work too hard to impress me, my love of Darkmans through last year's Bookerthon faithfully recorded here for posterity and, on the strength of that, I'm not sure why I didn't immediately pick up...
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Westminster Wisdom (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Bruno Anthony is one of the most compelling evil geniuses in cinema. He is compelling because he is charming. He begins the film, Strangers on a Train, by attaching himself to Guy Haines, an amazing tennis player, and proposes a scenario now lets say that you'd like to get rid of your wife... oh no no just suppose, lets say you had a very good reason, no no lets say, you'd be afraid to kill her, you...
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The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz B (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
By Steven Zeitchik So did David Edelstein cross a line in his assessment that Anthony Minghella was pushed too far by Harvey to a place called Oscar? In a blog item last week, New York magazine critic Edelstein insinuated that...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
Among her myriad literary skills, Frances Fyfield is adept at creating blood-chilling psychopaths. Like her American predecessor Patricia Highsmith, she takes us deep into their twisted psychology. Highsmith refused to condemn the violent behaviour of her characters, and without a hint of irony once pointed out that Tom Ripley only kills people who get in his way. Fyfield's books – while just as disturbing...
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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
The eloquent writer/producer and director died Tuesday from a hemorrhage following surgery. He was 54 years old.
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Wigderson Library & Pub (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Did you see The English Patient ? Did you enjoy it? Did you understand it? Think about the early 1990s and the string of films that won best picture: 69th Annual Academy Awards - The English Patient 68th Annual Academy Awards - Braveheart 67th Annual Academy Awards - Forrest Gump 66th Annual Academy Awards - Schindler's List 65th Annual Academy Awards – Unforgiven Then think about the films that won...
