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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Desert Island Books: Get Shorty

The National

Carla McKay

We speak with the author Peter James to get his recommendations for the best books to take to a desert island.

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

They say Leonard is “the man”, and you just have to read him to understand why. Characters, characters, characters. They are just so vivid, so engaging that you don’t even need a plot. You could have a group of his characters reading the phone directory for 300 pages, and you’d still be gripped.

Recent Entries

• Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci’s Elmore Leonard based pilot has a new name: THE ARRANGEMENT

• VIDEO: Elmore talkes about 3:10 to Yuma - Now in the Criterion Collection

• The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society Reads Elmore

• From Best To Worst: Elmore Leonard Movie Adaptations

• Author Night with Elmore and Peter at The West Bloomfield Township Library on May 15

• Elmore Receives the Thomas Cooper Medal at USC Columbia

• Justified: Timothy Olyphant on Elmore Leonard and the golden age of TV

• RIP George Jones

• Elmore Leonard to kick off Midwest Literary Walk in downtown Chelsea

• Graham Yost - Live Webcast Monday, April 22

• Crime-Family Values - Justified and the dream of bourgeois life

• Tonight - Justified Finale to Season 4

• Five Reasons You Need to Watch Justified

• Listen to Hombre on the BBC Saturday Drama

• 3:10 to Yuma Comes to the Criterion Collection on May 14

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