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Believe it: Bob Dylan is favored to win Nobel Prize in literature
Jacket CopyBob Dylan as Nobel prize-winner? Bob Dylan is the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel Prize for literature.... -
AFI Fest 2011: The literate anxieties of 'The Color Wheel'
24 FramesA ruefully acid-dipped send-up of the indie family comedy, "The Color Wheel" plays Saturday and Monday as part of AFI Fest. It will also screen on the UCLA campus on Tuesday as a double bill with Perry's first feature, 2009's "Impolex."... -
Thomas Pynchon slept here. Wouldn't you like to?
Jacket CopyThomas Pynchon's Manhattan Beach duplex hit the market and was snapped up fast. But hey, Trystero-heads, they're still taking back-up offers!... -
Reading L.A.: D.J. Waldie's spare, poetic 'Holy Land'
Culture MonsterChristopher Hawthorne's Reading L.A. series continues with D.J. Waldie's spare, poetic 'Holy Land'... -
Favorites 2009: Fiction and poetry
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Doubleday)
A struggling young writer in 1920s Barcelona accepts a lucrative, diabolical assignment commissioned by a shadowy client.
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster)
Meet Paul Chowder, a poet,...Tags: Los Angeles, Maine, Genesis (music group), Hart Crane, Nobel Prize Awards
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PASSINGS: Phyllis Gebauer, Les Guthrie, Freda Koblick, Lee Ames, Brian Haw
Phyllis Gebauer
Longtime UCLA Extension writing teacher
Phyllis Gebauer, 82, a teacher for two decades in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program who recently donated to the program signed first editions by reclusive author Thomas Pynchon, died Wednesday at...Tags: Demonstration, Activism, California, United Air Lines, Obituaries
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Phyllis Gebauer, who made significant Thomas Pynchon donation, has died
Jacket CopyPhyllis Gebauer, an author and creative writing teacher whose collection of signed Thomas Pynchon books was revealed six weeks ago, has died.... -
Seth Godin trailblazes down a familiar path
Jacket CopyJust so we're clear: Seth Godin is a smart Internet marketing guy, one who's less full of hot air than many others. Even when I disagree with him, there's usually something there to disagree with -- which is more than...... -
Mona Simpson and the L.A. Times bestseller list
Jacket CopyMona Simpson's "My Hollywood," a layered, literary take on motherhood and nannyhood, enters the L.A. Times bestseller list this week at No. 11. Simpson, who lives in Santa Monica, told Susan Salter Reynolds about what inspired her to create Lola,...... -
L.A. Times bestsellers, featuring Rosanne Cash
Jacket CopyAnyone who follows Rosanne Cash on Twitter knows she's funny, candid and smart. "Must check celebrity health & beauty blogs to discern inability to sleep. Probably repressing inner Goddess or not eating enough seaweed," she Tweeted earlier this week,... -
The Man Booker shortlist: Americans, be patient
Jacket CopyIf the Man Booker Prize judges were trying to send a message to American readers with the short list for this year's prize, announced Tuesday, it may have sounded something like "be patient." One third of the six shortlisted books...... -
Dave Tompkins reads from 'How to Wreck a Nice Beach' tonight at Skylight Books
Pop & HissAt its most elemental, the vocoder is an instrument of deception. A mode for veiled communication -- slang in binary code. The U.S and Russian militaries used it to compress and encrypt speech to elude enemy interception, but it soon......
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