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    May 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Richard Ford finds his place in 'Canada'

    It's tempting to call Richard Ford a writer of place. Beginning with his first novel, 1976's "A Piece of My Heart," the 68-year-old author has tended toward the border among landscape, language and character, using setting to help drive his narratives. Think of Frank Bascombe, who in "The Sportswriter," "Independence Day" and "The Lay of the Land" drifts across the bland surfaces of New Jersey, seeking not stimulation but a stasis similar to that of the suburbs where he resides. Or the people of Ford's Montana books, "Rock Springs" and "Wildlife": etched by the stark environment in which they find themselves, staring down the elements of their lives.
    It's tempting to call Richard Ford a writer of place. Beginning with his first novel, 1976's "A Piece of My Heart," the 68-year-old author has tended toward the border among landscape, language and character, using setting to help drive his narratives....

    Tags: Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, Richard Ford, Literature, Arts and Culture

    2. Apr 1, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision

    Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally eat a car — died Wednesday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76.
    Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...

    Tags: E.E. Cummings, Michael Connelly, Sears Holdings Corp., Korean War (1950-1953), Polio

    3. Jul 3, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 'The Kid' by Sapphire

    On the very first page of "The Kid," we learn Precious has died, leaving behind an orphan 9-year-old son, Abdul. Just like that, Sapphire, whose novel "Push" was adapted into one of 2009's most acclaimed films, "Precious," moves aside her troubled and inspiring creation so that this can be Abdul's story.
    Los Angeles Times
    On the very first page of "The Kid," we learn Precious has died, leaving behind an orphan 9-year-old son, Abdul. Just like that, Sapphire, whose novel "Push" was adapted into one of 2009's most acclaimed films, "Precious," moves aside her troubled and...

    Tags: Rape, Human Interest, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Juvenile Delinquency

    4. Feb 13, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Hisaye Yamamoto dies at 89; writer of Japanese American stories

    Hisaye Yamamoto, one of the first Asian American writers to earn literary distinction after World War II with highly polished short stories that illuminated a world circumscribed by culture and brutal strokes of history, has died. She was 89.
    Hisaye Yamamoto, one of the first Asian American writers to earn literary distinction after World War II with highly polished short stories that illuminated a world circumscribed by culture and brutal strokes of history, has died. She was 89. Yamamoto...

    Tags: Katherine Mansfield, Civil Rights, World War II (1939-1945), Forest Lawn Memorial Park, China Earthquake (2010)

    5. Jun 16, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. National Book Award finalists to be announced at Flannery O'Connor's home

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    When the National Book Awards finalists are announced this fall, the news will come from the row house in Savannah, Ga., that was the childhood home of Flannery O'Connor. Savannah, and O'Connor's former neighborhood, is a lovely place -- I......
    6. Jun 28, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. 'True Blood': 500 storylines and nothing on

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    I realize I'm far from the first person to say this, but I'm starting to worry "True Blood" has spawned too many plots in its third season. Look at tonight: You've got Sookie heading off with her new pal, Alcide,......
    7. Jul 21, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Joyce Carol Oates' widowhood with literature

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    For those who are attempting, however fruitlessly, to read everything written by the prolific Joyce Carol Oates, there's another paperback to add to the to-be-read pile. "In Rough Country," released at the end of June, has 29 essays and book......
    8. Aug 10, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  8. Pat Conroy will announce the National Book Award finalists

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    Bestselling author Pat Conroy will announce the National Book Award finalists at an Oct. 13 event in Savannah, Ga. The announcement will be made at Flannery O'Connor's childhood home. Although Conroy is known for books set in South Carolina --......
    9. Mar 3, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. In 'Nothing Right,' writer Antonya Nelson homes in on modern life's contradictions

    The house Antonya Nelson shares with her husband, writer Robert Boswell, and their two grown children, Noah, 18, and Jade, 21, is doeskin adobe, built in 1910, surrounded by dusty, shaded sage plants. Inside, there is color everywhere: flowers, pottery,...

    Tags: Republican Party, Culture, Education, Richard Riordan, Death

    10. Feb 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. 'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor,' by Brad Gooch

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    Flannery A Life of Flannery O'Connor Brad Gooch Little, Brown: 416 pp., $30 Brad Gooch opens "Flannery," his biography of Flannery O'Connor, with a lost moment: an account of how when O'Connor was 5, the Pathe newsreel company sent a cameraman to...

    Tags: Biography (genre), Thomas Merton, Death, Health and Safety at School, Walker Percy

    11. Jun 8, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Music's literary side

    <i>During the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, singer-songwriter Joe Henry participated in a panel on the connection between music and the written word. For our summer reading issue, we asked Henry to elaborate on this question and to write about how literature has helped shape his songs.</i>
    During the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, singer-songwriter Joe Henry participated in a panel on the connection between music and the written word. For our summer reading issue, we asked Henry to elaborate on this question and to write about how...

    Tags: Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Cole Porter, Literature

    12. Mar 3, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Barry Hannah dies at 67; award-winning Southern author

    Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67.
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    Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67. Hannah's son Barry Jr. told the Clarion Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss., that his father...

    Tags: Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi), Obituaries, University of Iowa, Awards and Prizes, Robert Altman

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