The Global Anti-Trust Battle Over Google's Library Nov 1, 2009
The settlement counts The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan and noir crime novelist Elmore Leonard among its supporters. The deal has many other supporters as well, from disability rights groups to Dr. Seuss Enterprises and the National Grange. (Time.com)
Perfect penmanship Oct 23, 2009
" My fear is that Jerome will catch me with an Elmore Leonard in my computer bag. Holtzman is the only writer who could call balls and strikes from the press box, which he did in the Cubs-Padres playoff opener in 1984, and make it seem like journalism. Replacement umpires lasted one game with Holtzman revealing their inadequacies. The last game we covered together was a recent Yankees-Sox double-header. Before I knew about his leaving his beloved newspaper work, he added it up, all the words,... (FOX61, CT)
Today in History - Oct. 11 Oct 11, 2009
Today's Birthdays: Author Elmore Leonard is 84. Actor Earle Hyman is 83. (Anchorage Daily News)
We are all guilty of being fascinated by crime Oct 9, 2009
Demand fostered authors such as Raymond Chandler and, later, Elmore Leonard, the grand-daddies of crime writing. A-list actors of the ilk of James Cagney and H 00004000 umphrey Bogart lined up for roles in gangster flicks. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Novelist Leonard To Receive PEN USA Award Oct 2, 2009
Novelist Elmore Leonard To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From PEN USA ... Many of Elmore Leonard's books have been made into films (AP) ... (AP) Novelist Elmore Leonard will receive PEN USA's lifetime achievement award at a December ceremony. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
GARY WALKER: Nothing like an afternoon at the movies Sep 22, 2009
Were the depth and maturity he had shown in his restrained, character-driven Elmore Leonard adaptation "Jackie Brown" just a one-shot deal, overridden by his passion for trash cinema. The answers are yes, yes and maybe -- but if he keeps making movies as good as "Basterds," then who cares. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Interview with Award Winning Writer... Sep 5, 2009
A. Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, Iain Banks, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles M. Schulz, Stephen King, Thomas Pynchon, Elmore Leonard, Prentice J. Ovoid, Janet Hobhouse, John Updike; I could go on forever but I won t bore you any further. Also Prentice J. Ovoid isn t real, I just made him up. (Suite101.com)
More new titles flowing to BPLs shelves Sep 5, 2009
Ranney said the library routinely buys books by best-selling authors such as Dan Brown, Elmore Leonard, David Baldacci and Danielle Steele. They remain in demand by armchair travelers. (Upper Cape Codder, MA)
With 'Basterds,' Tarantino answers critics Aug 21, 2009
Were the depth and maturity he had shown in his restrained, character-driven Elmore Leonard adaptation "Jackie Brown" just a one-shot deal, overridden by his passion for trash cinema ... Were the depth and maturity he had shown in his restrained, character-driven Elmore Leonard adaptation "Jackie Brown" just a one-shot deal, overridden by his passion for trash cinema. (Fresno Bee)
Thomas Pynchon's Magical Mystery Tour Aug 1, 2009
And speaking of Leonard, Inherent Vice is like nothing so much as an Elmore Leonard novel with metaphysical aims. It has the same deadpan dialogue, the same lowlife panache, the same Venice Beach to Vegas locales that Leonard has touched down in. (Time.com)
Falling in love onsceen Jul 17, 2009
With some help from Elmore Leonard (on whose novel the film is based), and Steven Soderbergh (who directed it), the audience receives a rare lesson in screen chemistry, one in which even the tiniest molecule generates heat. - M.F.. (Boston Globe)
Peter Leonard joins father in the family business Jun 29, 2009
Writer Elmore Leonard, right, and his novelist son, Peter Leonard ... After all, it came from his father, Elmore Leonard, one of the coolest dudes ever to put pen to yellow legal pad ... Road Dogs is Elmore Leonard s 43rd book, published in his 53rd year of selling stories. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Light, frothy mayhem for a steamy season Jun 28, 2009
If you threw in the air the pages of Agatha Christie s Murder on the Orient Express and Elmore Leonard s Get Shorty, and then invited Monty Python to stitch them back together, you might end up with something like Jump, Tim Maleeny s hilarious novel. Its cast of characters - residents of the top floor of the Bay Area s tony Golden Towers Apartments - are an idiosyncratic bunch. (Boston Globe)
Beach Blanket Ambitions Jun 23, 2009
As you pack your bags for the Hamptons or the Sierra Nevadas or that trout lake in northern Ontario, don't give in to the summertime tradition of reaching for the latest page-turner from John Grisham or Elmore Leonard. Instead, consider investing $15 in a paperback that is at least tangentially business-related and will pay dividends at the water cooler. (BusinessWeek)
Book Roundup: Audiobooks Jun 4, 2009
Road Dogs, written by Elmore Leonard Narrated Peter Francis James HarperAudio, $34 ... Elmore Leonard, master of gritty, bad-guy dialogue, is a perfect fit for full audio treatment, as this snappy production proves. (USA Today -- Life)
• Gooding library showcases new items Jun 2, 2009
"Everything's Coming Up Josey" by Susan May Warren; "The Whitney Chronicles" by Judy Baer; "Honeymoon" by James Patterson; "Assegai" by Wilbur Smith; "Cemetery Dance" by Douglas Preston; "Loser's Town" by Daniel Depp; "Road Dogs" by Elmore Leonard; "Whispered Lies" by Sherrilyn Kenyon; "The Stone Monkey" and "The Broken Window" by Jeffery Deaver; "Dead Ringer" by Lisa Scottoline. Books on CD. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers May 24 / May 25, 2009
ROAD DOGS, by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow; 272 pages; $26. 99). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Stephen King: Elmore Leonard's latest starts good, gets better May 17, 2009
Elmore Leonard's first novel, "The Bounty Hunters," was published in 1953 ... ROAD DOGS By Elmore Leonard. (Boston Globe)
EW's Picks of the week May 11, 2009
Entertainment Weekly's Picks of the week - CNN.com. Entertainment Weekly's Picks of the week. (CNN -- International)
Still hard-boiled - Elmore Leonard stays true to form at age of 83 May 9, 2009
Elmore Leonard is the author of Road Dogs, a story that brings back bank robber Jack Foley from Out of Sight ... That s the way Elmore Leonard begins Road Dogs, for which he has assembled a cast of familiar characters from previous novels. (Missoulian, MT)
Lolo crime novelist shares award with Grafton May 3, 2009
Since then Grand Masters have included Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, Alfred Hitchcock, Elmore Leonard, Joseph Wambaugh, Ira Levin, P.D. James and Ellery Queen. This is the first time in more than 30 years the MWA has named dual Grand Masters. (Montana Standard, MT)
Price, Boyle inducted into exclusive academy Apr 15, 2009
No science fiction, crime or horror authors have been voted in, not Elmore Leonard or James Ellroy, not even Ray Bradbury or Stephen King, both of whom have received honorary National Book Award medals. "There's probably an element of snobbism," McClatchy said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Finale wrap-up: "Life on Mars" Apr 3, 2009
That list includes, but isn't limited to, the 2001 "Thieves," with John Stamos and Melissa George; the 2004 youth-ensemble show "Life as We Know It"; and the 2003 "Karen Cisco," based on a character created by Elmore Leonard and starring Carla Gugino. But at least "Life on Mars" got its brief chance to show us another New York (one that's different, even, from other shows filmed on location, like the unstoppable "Law & Order"), a New York that wasn't a particularly nice place to live and yet,... (Salon)
You can feast at a library, but its costs are no fiction Mar 29, 2009
"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard, "Casino Royale" by Ian Fleming, a handful of novels by Kurt Vonnegut, and Patricia Highsmith's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" -- my favorite Eisenhower era sociopath -- are on the list along with the novels of James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy and other dead wordsmiths you need for your reading merit badge. If the Carnegie can't provide all 1,001, it can come very close, and that singular service is "free to the people" just like Andy wanted. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
