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    Apr 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. 'End of the Rainbow': magic, heartbreak in Judy Garland portrayal

    NEW YORK — Judy Garland, often drunk and occasionally disheveled, in Peter Quilter's biographical drama "End of the Rainbow," is rummaging for booze in her suite at the Ritz hotel. She's wired, and not simply because of the pills she can't seem to wean herself off of.
    NEW YORK — Judy Garland, often drunk and occasionally disheveled, in Peter Quilter's biographical drama "End of the Rainbow," is rummaging for booze in her suite at the Ritz hotel. She's wired, and not simply because of the pills she can't seem to...

    Tags: James Corden, Tom Pelphrey, YouTube, Theater, Entertainment Events

    2. Dec 26, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Book review: 'Letters,' Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor

    Letters
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Letters Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor Viking: 608 pp, $35 Saul Bellow, being Saul Bellow, coined literary profit from emotional tumult. From personal pain came self-exploration and impish bons mots, poured into the heightened confessional of...

    Tags: Crimes, Cynthia Ozick, Awards and Prizes, Human Interest, John Cheever

    3. Dec 20, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 'Samuel Johnson: The Struggle' by Jeffrey Meyers

    If you survey the geography of modern letters, three books stand out as signposts marking the beginning of paths that lead decisively away from all that went before. Augustine's "Confessions," the first memoir of an inner life, is one such work. So is...

    Tags: James Boswell, Biography (genre), Sex, Arts and Culture, Literature

    4. Nov 9, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Reasons to shiver: New in paperback

    "The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III" edited by Philip Gourevitch (Picador) "Have you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund Wilson, for example?" asks Julian Jebb, the guy sent by the Paris Review to interview...

    Tags: Crimes, Rachel Carson, John Lydon, Franz Kafka, Georges Simenon

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

  5. 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, &quot;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: Crimes, Pauline Kael, W.H. Auden, Photography, Delmore Schwartz

    6. Mar 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'Drood' by Dan Simmons and 'The Last Dickens' by Matthew Pearl

    So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, &quot;The Mystery of Edwin Drood," has been finished by a contemporary writer?
    So, Charles Dickens' great fragment, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," has been finished by a contemporary writer? That's what I thought, eyeing the titles of Dan Simmons' and Matthew Pearl's new novels. At last. The story of Dickens' final book is...

    Tags: Crimes, Dan Brown , Death, Adultery, Trips and Vacations

    7. Mar 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 'W.C. Handy' by David Robertson

    W.C. Handy
    W.C. Handy The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues David Robertson Alfred A. Knopf: 304 pp., $26.95 It's one of the most familiar creation myths in the American imagination: a lonely crossroads in the Mississippi Delta; a down-at-the-heels...

    Tags: Culture, Society, Death, Blues (genre), Ceremonies

    8. Feb 1, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 'The Lincoln Anthology' edited by Harold Holzer, 'The Best American History Essays on Lincoln' edited by Sean Wilentz, Ronald C. White's biography 'A. Lincoln' and others

    It was Tuesday, May 30, 1922, the day of the dedication of the solemn and splendid memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and the ceremony on the Mall featured speeches by President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
    It was Tuesday, May 30, 1922, the day of the dedication of the solemn and splendid memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and the ceremony on the Mall featured speeches by President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Howard Taft. The most...

    Tags: Langston Hughes, Civil Rights, Tourism and Leisure, Defense, Literature

    9. Sep 30, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Tight, blotto, sotted, sloshed: in other words, DRUNK [Updated]

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    Out this week, just in time for Octoberfest, is "Drunk: the Definitive Drinkers Dictionary." A sleek, gray hardcover of manageable size, the book contains no less than 2,964 synonyms for drunk. "The English language includes more synonyms for the word.......
    10. Sep 30, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  10. 2,964 ways to say 'drunk'

    Brand X
    Ever gone out and felt, well, not casters-up, not entirely not nearly blotto, but some kind of subtle gradation of drunk? Perhaps you'd find exactly the right turn of phrase in the new book 'Drunk: the Definitive Drinkers Dictionary,' out this week -- it'...
    11. Dec 3, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Matt Weinstock, Dec. 3, 1959

    The Daily Mirror
    Book Banning In 1946 two Los Angeles booksellers were arrested for selling copies of Edmund Wilson's "Memoirs of Hecate County," which had been banned. The book was ruled obscene and they were convicted. Now, 13 years later, a new edition of "Hecate"...
    12. Dec 22, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Forgotten treasures of the last century, from 25 writers

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    In 1999, the L.A. Times asked dozens of writers to look back at the prior century and share books they considered lost treasures -- books they loved that had slipped out of sight. Although the authors were formidable -- including......
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