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PASSINGS: Barbara L. Packer
Barbara L. Packer, 63, a retired UCLA English professor who specialized in 19th century American literature and was recognized as an authority on Ralph Waldo Emerson, died Dec. 16 at her Los Angeles home, according to the university's English department....Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University, Colleges and Universities, Margaret Fuller, Arts and Culture
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Book review: 'Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim' collected by Mark Cohen
Missing a Beat
The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim
Edited and with an introduction by Mark Cohen
Syracuse University Press: 296 pp., $29.95
We hear a disproportionate amount from the writers who "made it." The ones who hustled, stroked the right...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Colleges and Universities, Norman Mailer, Death, The Washington Post
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John Updike dies at 76; Pulitzer-winning author
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Updike's death from lung cancer was...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Obituaries, Colleges and Universities, Skin Conditions, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Go down, Crowley: The end of "Aegypt"
By Ed Park Though 20 years have passed between the publication of the start and finish of John Crowley's tetralogy "Aegypt" -- time enough, in publishing terms, for the oeuvre to take on the luster of the "Corpus Hermeticum" whose implications it relates...Tags: Robert Bresson, Philosophy, Death, Cults and Sects, Fiction
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Contemplating the angel in us all: Harold Bloom's 'Fallen Angels'
![Call it a celestial case of trading up: The prophet Elijah, carried to heaven in a chariot, becomes the angel Sandalphon. Enoch becomes Metatron and St. Francis, gentle lover of animals, is transformed into Rhamiel. <b>"Fallen Angels"</b> (Yale: 72 pp., $16) is literary critic Harold Bloom's meditation on the metaphoric power of angels in Western culture. "[F]or me a fallen angel and a human being are two terms for the same entity or condition," he declares.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/33477520-30165245.gif "Call it a celestial case of trading up: The prophet Elijah, carried to heaven in a chariot, becomes the angel Sandalphon. Enoch becomes Metatron and St. Francis, gentle lover of animals, is transformed into Rhamiel. <b>\"Fallen Angels\"</b> (Yale: 72 pp., $16) is literary critic Harold Bloom's meditation on the metaphoric power of angels in Western culture. \"[F]or me a fallen angel and a human being are two terms for the same entity or condition,\" he declares.")
Call it a celestial case of trading up: The prophet Elijah, carried to heaven in a chariot, becomes the angel Sandalphon. Enoch becomes Metatron and St. Francis, gentle lover of animals, is transformed into Rhamiel. "Fallen Angels" (Yale: 72 pp., $16)...Tags: Book
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A word-magus gets his due
![<i>I admired [Robert Louis] Stevenson; I did more than that. I did what we are not supposed to do with the characters we encounter in books -- I identified with him.</i>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-10/33024258.jpg "<i>I admired [Robert Louis] Stevenson; I did more than that. I did what we are not supposed to do with the characters we encounter in books -- I identified with him.</i>")
I admired [Robert Louis] Stevenson; I did more than that. I did what we are not supposed to do with the characters we encounter in books -- I identified with him.
--John Crowley, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Dilemma of an Uncritical Readership"
I...Tags: Anthony Powell, Colleges and Universities, Bars and Clubs, Travel, Science and Technology
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The 'Hoax' makes explosive claims
Zap2It.com"I only wish I were still in the movie business." That's Howard Hughes at his 1972 news conference, dialing in from the Bahamas to refute his purported autobiography, the one ostensibly written in conjunction with mythomaniac and Mailer-lite Clifford...Tags: McGraw-Hill Incorporated, Richard Gere, Death, Vince Vaughn, Howard Hughes
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Novelist Norman Mailer Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNovember 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities, George W. Bush, Jack Kerouac, George Foreman
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Starting over
World Made by Hand By James Howard Kunstler Atlantic Monthly Press, 317 pages, $24 A number of brilliant commentators on American life and culture currently attend us on important matters ranging from food to medicine to politics, art and economics. I'...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, David Brooks, George Mason, Death, Terrorism
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John Updike, Pulitzer-winning Author, Dies
NEW YORK -- John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76. Updike's death from lung cancer...Tags: John Updike, Death, Book, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Fiction
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Salinger, Pynchon & Co.: When writers are recluses
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey wait like pilgrims, queuing silently, bearing volumes for inscription and awaiting a chance to touch the hem of his garment. They're not Franciscans approaching Assisi but earnest readers rushing bookstores and cultural temples for word -- wisdom,...Tags: Gus van Sant, Sean Connery, Herman Melville, Celebrities, Glenn Gould
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Hitting a nerve
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterConsumerism and the counterculture collide hard on Telegraph Avenue, where political posters fill the space between chain stores. Three kids in hooded sweatshirts crouch on the sidewalk: "Can you spare some change ... for pot?" Away from the clamor,...Tags: University of California, Kevin Smith, Colleges and Universities, Cartoons, Teaching and Learning
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