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'Hemingway & Gellhorn': Love is a battlefield in the HBO movie
Most writers can only daydream about meeting — in the flesh — the characters they've imagined. But for Ernest Hemingway, one afternoon in Key West, Fla., it came close to actually happening. One day when the writer was in his mid-30s,...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Barbara Turner, Corey Stoll, Testosterone, Lauren Bacall
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A rise in the number of oil-soaked sea birds off California; David Lazarus' review of the benefits of the healthcare reform law; debating what to do with public lands
For the birds
Re "Seabird rescues up sharply," March 7
So, oil seeping naturally from the ocean floor off Santa Barbara is to blame for all these oil-soaked birds.
I have a hard time believing that's all there is to it. Oil companies have drilled...Tags: Breast Cancer, Dining and Drinking, Politics, Laws, Restaurants
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Malcolm X, Tom Stoppard, U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights
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An appreciation: Barney Rosset, contemporary literature's champion
Los Angeles Times Book CriticBarney Rosset, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, was the most important American publisher of the 20th century. Sure, he was part of a lineage; it's difficult to imagine Rosset doing what he did for more than 30 years at Grove Press without the...Tags: Heroin, U.S. Postal Service, Samuel Beckett, Cancer, D.H. Lawrence
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Happy birthday, Edward Gorey! And more book news
Jacket CopyBook news: Edward Gorey's fur coat, David Foster Wallace remembered, a rare Action Comics No. 1 discovered, Justin Bieber to publish photo book, and Stephen Colbert's satirically bad children's book is on the way.... -
Galleries fostered L.A.'s postwar art scene
It's hard to imagine now. But one fact about the early years of the post-World War II art scene in Los Angeles that has been brought into focus by the Pacific Standard Time initiative is that there was no real art museum in what was becoming the nation'...Tags: Ad Reinhardt, Arts, Dennis Hopper, Landforms, World War II (1939-1945)
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Happy banned books week!
Jacket CopyBanned Books week begins today, runs through October 30, and includes everything from challenged children's books to banned erotica.... -
Jenny Lewis cancels West Coast tour, including Bridge School gigs
Pop & HissJenny Lewis has canceled her upcoming West Coast tour due to a family emergency, including dates at the Bridge School Benefit Concert.... -
Elaine Stritch and the Town Hall: They're still here
Culture MonsterVeteran performer Elaine Stritch has performed in a lot of places, but until Saturday never in New York's venerable Town Hall. Together, the two Broadway institutions are 176 years old and they suit each other.... -
Ryan Adams releases new single, "Lucky Now"
Pop & HissRyan Adams releases a new single, "Lucky Now." Ryan Adams' song sports the bummed-out acoustic intimacy of his solo reputation-maker "Heartbreaker."... -
Michael Stern Hart dies at 64; e-book pioneer
Michael Stern Hart, a burly rebel whose vision of a literate society led him to pioneer the electronic book decades before the spread of the Internet, has died. He was 64.
The founder of the online library Project Gutenberg, Hart had been in poor...Tags: Politics, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Censorship, Human Interest, Book
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