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The Moviegoer

The Natural is a sports movie that swings for the fences—and knocks it out of the park
Barry Levinson’s gorgeous 1984 adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s “midnight-of-the-soul” allegory turns the heraldry, color, and sound of baseball into folk opera.

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Interviews

The career zenith of Elmore Leonard, “the most cinematic novelist in the English language”
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John O’Hara, “Agatha”
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John O’Hara: “an important American writer who has been unjustly neglected”
Influences

Leopoldine Core: Nella Larsen’s radical Passing and other influences on When Watched

New & Noteworthy

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia LOA N°281
Elmore Leonard: Four Later Novels LOA N°280
John O'Hara: Stories LOA N°282
The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (paperback)
Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings LOA N°277

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Writer of the Week Elmore Leonard
Few writers are as alive to the sound of human speech as Elmore Leonard. To open one of his novels is to be plunged at once into an arena of crisscrossing voices. . .
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