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Where's Weldon?
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....Tags: W.H. Auden, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mario Vargas Llosa, Edmund Wilson, Cults and Sects
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William F. Buckley Jr., 82; author and founder of modern conservative movement
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWilliam F. Buckley Jr., the columnist, novelist, television talk show host and tireless intellectual who founded the modern conservative movement and was its articulate voice for nearly six decades, died Wednesday. He was 82. Buckley, who had been ill...Tags: James Baldwin, Sailing, Television, Executive Branch, Government
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2008 summer reading list
June 8, 2008
Editor's Note: It's a perennial question for the summer months, what to read? Here you'll mind more than 50 titles in fiction andƒononfiction, organized according to the months when they'll be published. Books are listed in alphabetical...Tags: Murder, Hospitals and Clinics, Denver Broncos, Trips and Vacations, Politics
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Novelist Norman Mailer Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNovember 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Romance (genre), 60 Minutes (tv program), Television, Arts and Culture
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Enters 12th Storied Year April 28-29 at UCLA
LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2007 - The city renowned as the entertainment capital of the world will roll out the red carpet to celebrate the nation's largest public literary festival when the Los Angeles Times, in association with UCLA, holds the 12th Annual...Tags: Music Theater, PBS (tv network), Television, Phil McGraw, Society
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Glenn Goldman, owner of Book Soup, dies at 58
Glenn Goldman, whose independent bookstore, Book Soup, became a Sunset Boulevard landmark known for its tall, teetering stacks and mazes of shelves crammed with titles that attracted entertainment and tourist industry clientele, died Saturday. He was 58....Tags: Services and Shopping, Brentwood (Los Angeles, California), Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Edward Albee, Los Angeles
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STEPPENWOLF STEPPIN' OUT
Deanna Dunagan was Broadway-bound and she was not happy.
It was mid-October and she was due to leave in a week for New York, where she would reprise her acclaimed performance as Violet Weston, the pill-addicted, cancer-stricken monster of a mother at the...Tags: Eugene O'Neill, Music Theater, Trips and Vacations, Sam Shepard, Television
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Champion of the American novel
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterApril 10, 2008 NEW YORK -- The late Norman Mailer, a novelist and cultural provocateur who was rarely at a loss for words, was remembered at a memorial service Wednesday as a man whose deep and abiding commitment to the American novel will be his most...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, New York, Journalism, Carnegie Hall, Hospitals and Clinics
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Authors, authors everywhere at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
What does it mean to celebrate the written word? It means getting excited about, well, everything.
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FOR THE RECORD:
Festival of Books: A Friday Calendar article on authors attending the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books said that...Tags: Alonzo Mourning, Marlee Matlin, The Brady Bunch (tv program), Television, Cloris Leachman
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A poison pen
Bloomberg NewsReading "The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" is like watching a cobra devour forest vermin. Even if you don't have much feeling for the prey, you may pause at the thought of what might happen if the monster turned its attention on you. Not that Vidal...Tags: Italo Calvino, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Carson McCullers, George W. Bush, John Updike
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For Martin Amis, it's OK to lose his cool
Times Staff WriterNEW YORK — He still has the urbane good looks, the edgy bonhomie of a bestselling British author touring the colonies. But as Martin Amis warmed up a Manhattan crowd this week before reading from his latest novel, he apologized for putting on...Tags: New York, George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Slavery, Manhattan (New York City)
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Gore Vidal's "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated"
Comparing the work of Gore Vidal--22 novels, five plays, numerous screenplays and hundreds of essays--with, say, the highly publicized grumblings of Cornel West over whether Harvard or Princeton was a more congenial academic environment for an African...Tags: Politics, Government, Oklahoma, Kofi Annan, Arts and Culture
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