Rafael Alvarez, Author, Nick Hornby, Author, Victor Paul Alvarez, Author, with an intro. by David Simon. Grove $19.95 (581p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4499-7 After HBO launched its gritty, Baltimore-based ...

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In the new iteration of 'Funny Girl,' written by 'High Fidelity' and 'About a Boy' author Nick Hornby, the main character is far from plain-looking. "Funny Girl” was a musical, then a movie, both ...

In “A Lover’s Discourse,” by Xiaolu Guo, and “Just Like You,” by Nick Hornby, characters couple up as Britain makes a break. By Marcel Theroux What a therapist, scholar, monk, C.E.O. and others can ...

For the last few years Nick Hornby has vied with Martin Amis for the unofficial title of Most Influential Novelist in Britain. That Hornby seems to be winning says a lot for the sound mental health of ...

An ongoing critical debate is whether fiction featuring sympathetic characters can still qualify as “literary.” Serious writers tend to gravitate toward the distasteful and dastardly; Jennifer Weiner ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. "The Meaning of Mariah Carey," by Mariah Carey (Andy Cohen ...

Known for books about men who act like boys ("High Fidelity," "About a Boy"), the author is back with a novel ("Slam") about a teenage boy forced to act like a man after his girlfriend gets pregnant.

Nick Hornby has written many of the bestselling books that have turned into your favorite movies, from “High Fidelity” and “About A Boy” to “Fever Pitch,” as well as adapted the work of others into ...

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I'm always happy when a new Nick Hornby book comes out. I'm not really sure why, since he's not that great of a writer, and his books always seem to just miss the mark of what they were intending to ...