Peter Hapak photographed 13 authors including Jonathan Franzen for Time magazine at the annual Pen American Center's World Voices festival.
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For all you movie lovers out there! Three movies have been based on The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham's 1925 novel. See the most recent version's trailer of the Painted Veil starring Naomi Watts and Edward Horton. Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall star in the 1934 version.I found some fun movie clips from this production on the TCM website. Read the New York Times Review from the December 7, 1934 by Andre Sennwald The Painted Veil (1934) December 7, 1934 THE SCREEN; Greta Garbo Makes Her Semi-Annual Screen Appearance in 'The Painted Veil,' at the Capitol and compare the 2007 review, A Plague Infects the Land, as Passion Vexes Hearts by MANOHLA DARGIS. A third version was released in 1957 called The Seventh Sin with Bill Travers and Eleanor Parker. The dramatic original trailer for this film can be found on the TCM website.
Need an idea for a new book to read? Check out Oprah's Summer Reading List!
Read Neelanjana Banerjee post in FirstPost., an e -news publication based in Mumbai. Neelanjana Banerjee is a writer and editor currently living in Ahmedabad, India. It is an interesting take on the character Lalitha, an Indian in a white man's world.
Top 5 Summer Reads For These Long, Sunny Days.
Freedom- Jonathan Franzen Just Kids- Patti Smith The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks- Rebecca Skloot The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Bossypants- Tina Fey Read what this blogger has to say. Stephen O' Sullivan gives his thoughts on his blog, random:~$ thoughts about all the hype Freedom is receiving in the mainstream press. I don't know, what do you think? Does Freedom and Franzen live up to all the hype?
Just finished Keith Richard's Life. Far more interesting and better written than you might think. You do have to be into the music, however.
And just started The Dirty Life - a recommendation from someone at work. NYC suburbanite marries organic farmer, moves upstate to set up farm and live the locovore life. Enjoying. The New York Times Book Review of the novel, UnBroken by Laura Hillenbrand from November 14, 2010 by Janet Maslin begins with a quote from Louis Zamperini's track coach at the University of Southern California describing his young runner as, “The only runner who could beat him was Seabiscuit,” How ironic, many years later the author of Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand writes Louis Zamperini's life story in UnBroken.
Lev Grossman, Time Magazine 8/12/10, interviews Jonathan Franzen in his article Jonathan Franzen: Great American Novelist
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