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...Most of the book is set in Portland, Oregon — where deWitt, who is Canadian, now lives....
...Amplifying all kinds of weirdness, her writing is reminiscent of Helen DeWitt’s fiction, although here the humour is more absurdist....
...“They’re all about laundering political influence as journalism,” said Philip Napoli, public policy professor at Duke University and director of its DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy....
...Just when Macey is in the middle of changing Hilda’s colostomy bag, cousin Beatrice (Rosemarie DeWitt) shows up to woo Hilda in her direction, dripping insincerity and offering the services of her chef-husband...
...Her previous trilogy of crime novels featuring Claire DeWitt — a drug-addicted private investigator pounding the streets of San Francisco — delivered a delightfully shabby anti-hero....
...Zink delights in mordant but humorous provocation, in the vein of her compatriots Helen DeWitt and Joy Williams....
...Job moves Adam DeWitt is stepping down as chief executive of the food delivery group Grubhub....
...We followed the Hudson River Greenway right down the west side of Manhattan, nodding in silent tribute as we passed DeWitt Clinton Park....
...In a statement, Adam DeWitt, Grubhub chief executive, said the deal would “help Grubhub continue to deliver on our longstanding mission to connect more diners with local restaurants”....
...“I heard a lot of pollsters talk about whether young people would show up like they have in recent elections,” said Carolyn DeWitt, president of Rock the Vote, which aims to engage young Americans in politics...
...Adam DeWitt, Grubhub’s chief executive, said in a statement: “Amazon has redefined convenience with Prime and we’re confident this offering will expose many new diners to the value of Grubhub+ while driving...
...In the tradition of satirists from Jonathan Swift to Helen DeWitt, Leichter builds a world that’s absurd, but familiar enough to give pause....
...Charles Jencks was born in Baltimore in 1939 to Gardner Platt Jencks, a concert pianist and modernist composer, and Ruth DeWitt Pearl....
...different dynamics to the UK -- particularly in terms of urban density and competition -- the accompanying shareholder letter from Grubhub chief executive Matt Maloney and chief financial officer Adam DeWitt...
...In Paris, however, deWitt runs into another danger — that of cuteness....
...No one could be as urbane as George Sanders, but Stanley Townsend as Addison DeWitt is as smoothly devastating as all too many folk believe us critics to be, or at least to want to be....
...Adapting a novel by Patrick deWitt, Audiard turns the tight-packed plot into a kind of fissile infernalism, a nitro-nihilism....
...Adapted from Patrick deWitt’s novel, The Sisters Brothers pairs Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly as a boozy hothead and his more sensitive counterpart on the trail of a high-minded detective (Jake Gyllenhaal...
...Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP The legal issues discussed in this column refer to England and Wales and are for illustrative purposes only and should not be considered legal advice Photographs: AFP; Kathy deWitt...
...Eric Foner DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, New York, NY, US Letter in response to this letter: Acknowledge that Rhodes was a complex character / From Robin Cooke-Hurle...
...Patrick DeWitt’s previous novel, The Sisters Brothers, was shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2011....
...The acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) is now working on The Sisters Brothers, an adaptation of the novel of Gold Rush assassins by Patrick DeWitt, and an imminent remake of The Magnificent...
...Pitched somewhere between gothic fantasy and magical-realist fable, it’s tempting to compare The Maker of Swans to works such as Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell or Patrick DeWitt’s more recent Undermajordomo...
...For all the pleasures of Dheepan, he has returned to a more conventional approach for his next film: his first in English, an adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s Old West novel The Sisters Brothers, to star John...
...Watchland Backes & Strauss, Barthelay, ECW, Franck Muller, Martin Braun, Pierre Kunz, Pierre Michel Golay, Rodolphe, Smalto Timepieces, Cvstos Private ateliers and galleries, including ArtyA, 17 Rue du Clos; DeWitt...
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