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Blog Entries by Warren Adler from 03/2012

Oscars and the War Against the Aging

| Posted 03.01.2012
Read More: The Artist, Aarp, Alessandra Stanley, Christopher Plummer, Oscars, Television, Academy Awards, Movie News, Meryl Streep, News

For us decrepit folks over 55, the age of AARP eligibility, we have endured the long reign of movies pointed primarily to kiddies, teenagers, and dating couples and a starvation diet of films addressed to mature audiences.

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My Book Problem

| Posted 03.14.2012
Read More: Recipe Collections, Kindle, Moving, Apartment, Books, Collecting, Ebooks, News

Recently, I moved to another apartment. While moving in itself is a traumatic event, my principal problem is books. I have a huge collection of books.

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The Dark Underbelly of Modern India

| Posted 03.27.2012
Read More: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, India, Katherine Boo, Review, Book, Book Reviews, Annawadi, News

There are many ways to assess Katherine Boo's remarkable book Behind the Beautiful Forevers about the disenfranchised, struggling, impoverished underclass of India. Beyond the general is the harsh statistic that India contains one-third of the impoverished people on the planet.

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What Is a Literary Novel?

| Posted 03.29.2012
Read More: Huckleberry Finn, Authors, Literary, Writers, Books, Writing, Classics, Reading, To Kill a Mockingbird, Writing a Book, Literary Novel, Novels, Writing a Novel, News

Does durability, for example, constitute an important definition of what is or becomes a literary novel? How does a novel become a classic? Who determines what becomes a classic?

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