Articles by Marc Weingarten

387 articles since 1997

Sinking his critical teeth into ‘Dracula’

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | October 31, 2008
After writing nearly 2,000 footnotes for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes corpus, one might think Leslie Klinger would take a respite. Read more
 

When the power was in the writing, not the PC

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | September 8, 2008
AS PRINT journalism supposedly recedes into the mists of history, and we continue to laud the Internet as the future of just about everything, it’s important to note that there is still a lot of great work being done by the denizens of the old wave. Read more
 

Craig Johnson makes crime pay

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | July 20, 2008
CRAIG Johnson comes as advertised. Read more
 

A fertile moonscape for a writer’s fiction

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | June 8, 2008
IT WAS high noon and the sun was throwing a harsh light over the foreboding landscape that faces the Salton Sea. Read more
 

Nina Revoyr looks inside the outsiders

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | April 27, 2008
YOU don’t hear folks touting the virtues of Compton too often. Read more
 

Lighting up the past

Books | By Marc Weingarten | April 20, 2008
Havanas in Camelot Personal Essays William Styron Random House: 166 pp., $23 IN the months before he fell into his final, fatal illness in the fall of 2006, William Styron compiled a number of essays, lectures and occasional pieces that he had written over the previous 20 years of his life. Read more
 

Her cart has come in

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | April 9, 2008
IN eighth grade, Hillary Carlip was suspended from school for dressing up like Holly Golightly. Read more
 

Gonzo’ retraces Thompson’s boozy steps

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | November 2, 2007
THIS is a sad book – tragic, really. Read more
 

In Abbey’s letters, a portrait of a bilious man

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | August 31, 2007
EDWARD ABBEY never took half measures. Read more
 

A love song to rivers

Entertainment | By Marc Weingarten | July 3, 2007
WHAT is it about rivers that brings out the inner Thoreau in writers? Read more
 
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