The Culture Gabfest, Good Breeding Edition Nov 5, 2009
(Audiobook of the week: The Talented Mr. Ripley, written by Patricia Highsmith and narrated by David Menkin ... Stephen's pick: Patricia Highsmith's novel-turned-film starring Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley. (Slate)
Good Books Dont Have to Be Hard, Lev Grossman, The Wall Street Journal Sep 1, 2009
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. (Harper's Magazine)
The cold Nordic climes are hot May 10, 2009
Books by the latest sensation, Karin Alvtegen, are just making their ways into print here, and the layers of obsession and self-deception in books like "Betrayal" make Patricia Highsmith look tame. All this bleakness can become self-parody pretty quickly as you can see in Norwegian writer Per Petterson's over-praised "Out Stealing Horses" or Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier's movies. (Boston Globe)
Robert Serrell takes a different route to playing killer in 'Strangers' May 1, 2009
Best known in its film version - Alfred Hitchcock's dark psychological thriller - "Strangers on a Train" was first a 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith, the story of two men, an architect named Guy Haines and a playboy named Charles Bruno, who meet on a train and strike up a conversation. Guy confesses he wants his cheating wife killed so he can marry his true love. (Boston Globe)
