Andre Dubus III grew up in the kind of neighborhoods where “if you were a boy who read, you hid that.” The secret reader would eventually become a celebrated author, whose novel “House of Sand and Fog ...

If you ask the hard-luck narrator of Andre Dubus III's new novel what he's accomplished in 54 years, he'll mention the carpentry business he owned and the houses he built, one of which he and his ...

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah-endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III’s isn’t a slam-dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

A sickening sense of inexorability propels "House of Sand and Fog," adapted from Andre Dubus III's best-selling 1999 novel, which sadly seems to gain resonance only as a political allegory. The story ...

Tom Lowe has been dealt a rough hand. A skilled builder, in a moment of carelessness he fell off a roof and shattered his bones. In “Such Kindness,” Andre Dubus III offers Tom as an angry Siddhartha ...

The film House of Sand and Fog tells the story of an Iranian immigrant whose legal struggle over a home purchase escalates into tragedy. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review. At LAist, we believe in ...

The film version of Andre Dubus II's "House of Sand and Fog," is, to my mind, the least successful -- certainly most excruciatingly unpleasant -- of all the entries in this year's rush of year-end, ...

On a recent episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the famed talk show hostess urged her viewers to go out and buy the latest selection for her book club - The House of Sand and Fog by Tufts' English ...

meets next Thursday, January 15 to discuss the contemporary novel "House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubus III. In 2009 the Readers' Circle continues to meet the third Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m.