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    Jan 25, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Joan Aiken's Armitage family is charming - and magical

    The White Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" says she believes as many as six impossible things before breakfast. In the title tale from Joan Aiken's <b>"The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories"</b> (Big Mouth House: 330 pp., $20), the impossible things happen after breakfast, and the proof of our belief is the pang at the end, when beautifully sustained fantasy crashes into the everyday.
    The White Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" says she believes as many as six impossible things before breakfast. In the title tale from Joan Aiken's "The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories" (Big Mouth House: 330 pp., $20),...

    Tags: Animals, Family, Fiction, Death

    2. Aug 17, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Where's Weldon?

    The poet <b>Weldon Kees</b> 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. Kees had often spoken of killing himself and had once planned, with James Agee, to write a book on famous suicides; together they came up with a wonderful title, "How-Not-To-and-Why-Not-To-Do-It," though the project came to nothing. Both men were too busy plotting their own deaths.
    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: James Agee, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene

    3. Jun 30, 2011 |Story| Daily Pilot

  3. The Bell Curve: Born on the Fourth of July

    <b>Editor's note:</b><i> Retired Daily Pilot columnist Joseph N. Bell has written a special column to mark his 90th birthday, which falls on Independence Day.</i>
    Editor's note: Retired Daily Pilot columnist Joseph N. Bell has written a special column to mark his 90th birthday, which falls on Independence Day. As a young boy watching the Fourth of July parade in the county-seat town of Decatur, Ind., the...

    Tags: Festive Events, Homes, Newspaper and Magazine, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture

    4. Feb 23, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Identity theft?

    The Soul Thief
    The Soul Thief By Charles Baxter Pantheon, 210 pages, $20 'Mirrored Room" is an 8-by-8-by-10-foot piece of art from the 1960s whose permanent home is the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. As its name suggests, Lucas Samaras' little room is...

    Tags: Arts, Brain, Gertrude Stein, Crimes, Health and Safety at School

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