Topic: Tom Perrotta

The IFOA Questionnaire: Tom Perrotta

Handout. . This year's International Festival of Authors, which takes place between October 19 and 30 in Toronto, features nearly 200 participants...

'The Leftovers,' by Tom Perrotta

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Russell Banks, Anne Enright, and Gary Shteyngart are among the writers coming to Toronto later this year, as the International Festival of Authors...

Tom Perrotta

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The Abstinence Teacher

In sex education teacher that comes into conflict with the conservative members in her town over the way she teaches her class and they push for her to teach abstinence. "Perrotta leaves the fate of these sweet, baffled characters hanging, which is ...

U.S. Open

Roger Federer may not be playing quite at the epic levels that he used to - but that doesn't mean he's not capable of the occasional pleasant surprise. Above is a video of yet another ridiculous, between-the-legs winner that he hit ...

In tomorrow's Film & Music ...

Is The Breakfast Club really the best high school movie ever made? //www.tomperrotta.net/">Tom Perrotta, author of the (we think) really rather better Election?Earlier this year the band White Lies were the centre of what music writing rules compel ...

Perrotta on Palin: Introducing the 'Sexy Puritan'

Slate has an essay by Election and Little Children author Tom Perrotta on the Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, in which he writes, " Caribou hunting aside, Sarah Palin represents the state-of-the-art version of a particular type of womanlet's call her ...

Book Club: The Abstinence Teacher

A group of evangelicals have descended on sex-ed teacher Ruth Ramsey's Northeast town, and now the 41-year-old divorced mother of two is forced to teach a dubious abstinence curriculum; meanwhile, her daughters - one a star soccer player - want to join the ...

Childish Things

Little Children (2 1/2 stars) Director: Todd Field. Stars: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley.Rated: R. Opens Friday.The last time someone made a movie out of a Tom Perrotta novel, the result was Alexander Payne's ...