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Travel with a classic touch, and a picnic blanket, to Massachusetts' Tanglewood
Lenox, Mass. — Travelers come to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts for the mountains and the museums, the camping and the theater, the just-off-the-boil summer days that fade into cool evenings and single-blanket nights. But most of all they...
Tags: Personal Service, Concerts, Norman Rockwell, Downton Abbey (tv program), Arts and Culture
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
14 eclectic, bookish gifts
Jacket CopyBookends, wall decor, jewelry, e-reader cases and more -- 14 eclectic gift ideas for the book lover on your list.... -
Theater review: 'And God Created Great Whales' at REDCAT
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews Rinde Eckert's stunningly effective "Moby Dick" theater piece, "And God Created Great Whales" at REDCAT.... -
Ben Heppner cancels 'Moby-Dick' performance in San Diego
Culture MonsterBen Heppner has canceled his Tuesday appearance in "Moby-Dick" at San Diego Opera. The company said in a statement that the tenor is ill and that the role of Captain Ahab will be sung by Jay Hunter Morris on that night.... -
The Siren's Call: A horn of plenty's worth of holiday reading
One Thanksgiving lesson most school kids probably don't receive has to do with the horn of plenty adorning festive paintings. For me it always seemed like a weird choice for carrying harvested food — what about a simple, flat-bottomed basket? But...Tags: Poetry, The Washington Post, Anglo-Saxon Gold Hoard Discovery (2009), Literature, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Tablets: Downloadable classic books are in abundance
Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as...Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Apple iPad, Henry Fielding, Sherwood Anderson, Daniel Defoe
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Making a Summer Splash
Looking for big splashy fun to cool down the summer heat?
Consider a weekend jaunt to breezy San Diego. It’s more than just a pretty bay. Turns out, San Diego’s waterfront is loaded with all types of ocean adventures, from speedboating...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Human Interest, Paul Gauguin, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture
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Book review: 'The Art of Fielding' by Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding
A Novel
Chad Harbach
Little, Brown: 528 pp., $25.99
In terms of conjuring a shorthand for a certain American innocence, there are few delivery systems quite so direct as baseball. Touched on by a library's worth of authors...Tags: Cinderella (fictional character), Stephen King, Rick Ankiel, John Updike, College Baseball
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Henry Carlisle dies at 84; author, translator helped bring Solzhenitsyn's work to Western audiences
Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco author, translator and former editor who with his wife helped bring two works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn to Western audiences, has died. He was 84.
Carlisle died of complications from pneumonia July 11 in San Francisco,...Tags: Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Satire (genre), Book
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Signed 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' book sells for $9,000
Jacket CopyA signed first edition of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has set one collector back $9,000.... -
5,000 books reportedly thrown out in Occupy Wall Street raid
Jacket CopyThe 5,000 books in the Occupy Wall Street library were removed during an early-morning police raid Tuesday in New York....
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