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Ted Gioia is a writer and musician. He is the author of Delta Blues, The History of Jazz and, most recently, The Birth (and Death) of the Cool. You can follow Ted Gioia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/tedgioia.
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Michael Ondaatje's "English Patient" is involved in an adulterous affair—but his past hides an even greater infidelity.
With his first novel 'Daemon,' Daniel Suarez shows that he may be Tom Clancy for the Grand Theft Auto generation.
Swede Levov embodies the American success story—until the turbulence of 1960s-era US life tears apart his family.
You can try to make 'The God of Small Things' into a novel about One Big Thing . . . but please don't!
Today Dr. Moreau would take his biotech company public on the NASDAQ, but in Victorian times he was a dangerous villain.
A recent controversy in the blogosphere brings Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s 1959 novel 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' back into the limelight.
Is J.K. Rowling's writing just "clichés and dead metaphors" as Harold Bloom argues, or is there something more to Harry Potter?
In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy shifts quickly from loving descriptions of flora, fauna, and rocks into accounts of bloodthirsty violence.
Frank Herbert's Dune was rejected by countless publishers, yet became a cherished sci-fi classic. How does it stack up today?
Jim Harrison writes a new millennium version of Kerouac's On the Road for senior citizens.
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