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At 102, therapist is too busy to stop working
Lately I've been wading into streams of mail from readers approaching death. Some are fighting it, some are afraid, some are ready to go.
And then I heard from two readers with an update on Hedda Bolgar. I wrote about the Brentwood therapist three...Tags: Psychotherapy, Genes and Chromosomes, Health Treatments, Human Interest, Documentary (genre)
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Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
Opera review: Philip Glass' 'Kepler' has U.S. premiere at BAM
Culture MonsterThe starry sky is regular subject, spiritual circumstance or actual setting of Philip Glassâ work. His latest opera, âKepler,â given its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Wednesday night, is about the German astronomer who... -
'The Year of the Flood' by Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood
A Novel
Margaret Atwood
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 434 pp., $26.95
Lady Oracle has been quiet the last six years. Yes, there have been half a dozen books, an opera even. But no novels, and it is in her novels that Margaret Atwood...Tags: Floods, Dining and Drinking, Fiction, April Fools' Day, Thomas Pynchon
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'Alfred & Emily' by Doris Lessing
Alfred & Emily
Doris Lessing
HarperCollins: 276 pp., $25.95
Doris Lessing has never been one to shy from bold moves. She married early to escape her overbearing mother, then left her husband and two children, wedding a German Communist classed as an...Tags: Cricket, Nobel Prize Awards, Julian Barnes, World War II (1939-1945), Fiction
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Connecting to Hay on Wye
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTHE BEST WAY From LAX, KLM offers connecting service (change of planes) to Cardiff, Wales, about 47 miles from Hay on Wye. Restricted round-trip airfares start at $734. WHERE TO STAY The Swan at Hay, Church Street, Hay on Wye, Herefordshire; 011-44-...Tags: Bob Geldof, Cate Blanchett, Dave Eggers, Arts and Culture, Christopher Hitchens
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Le Clezio -- who's he?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf the selection of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel literature laureate has anything to tell us, it's that Horace Engdahl means what he says. Last week, Engdahl, the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary, called American...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Gao Xingjian, Sarah Palin, Carlos Fuentes, Nigeria
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The Question: What was your favorite book as a child?
"'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling. I thought I was Mowgli, or I wanted to be Mowgli and have talking critters as friends. Absolutely, I wanted to escape the ghetto. I wanted to get out of poverty and live in some place magical. It seemed to me that if...Tags: Literature, Chicago Tribune, Rudyard Kipling, L. Frank Baum, Arts and Culture
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Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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Tags: Mario Vargas Llosa, Paul Auster, Carlos Fuentes, Arthur Miller, Susan Sontag
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Tags: Mario Vargas Llosa, Paul Auster, Arthur Miller, Alice Munro, Susan Sontag
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Tags: Mario Vargas Llosa, Paul Auster, Arthur Miller, Alice Munro, Susan Sontag
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