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    Jul 29, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  1. David Markson's library for sale, and going fast

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    When David Markson, author of the postmodern classic "Wittgenstein's Mistress," died in New York in June at age 82, he left behind a vast library of books. In the dissolution of Markson's worldly possessions, more than 50 cartons -- holding......
    2. Jul 26, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. When famous writers feud

    <i> Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are not the only literary friends to see their relationship go cold. Indeed, the history of literature is a history of betrayals, of writers turning on each other and collaborations falling apart. Below, we give you five other </i><i>failed literary friendships and feuds.</i>
    Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are not the only literary friends to see their relationship go cold. Indeed, the history of literature is a history of betrayals, of writers turning on each other and collaborations falling apart. Below, we give...

    Tags: Crimes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Allen Ginsberg, Crime, Law and Justice, Arthur Rimbaud

    3. Sep 8, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Richard Poirier dies at 83; literary critic helped found Library of America

    Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He was 83.
    Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He...

    Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Hospitals and Clinics, Roosevelt, Arts and Culture, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia)

    4. Apr 2, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Literary T-shirts: a spring roundup

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    Snappy "Mad Men"-style suits and dresses aside, the T-shirt remains a wardrobe staple. And literary T-shirts are as interesting as just about any out there. For example, above we see two competing possible designs based on George Orwell's "1984" from........
    5. Jun 26, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'American Tales' at Deaf West Theatre

    MARK TWAIN and Herman Melville are renowned for capturing the salt, wit and dreams of their eras. But the two musicals they've inspired for the world premiere of "American Tales" -- presented by the Antaeus company -- reveal the authors' uncelebrated...

    Tags: Justice System, John Ashcroft, Mark Twain, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers

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

  6. Top 10 must-see spots around the globe

    People always ask me how I decide where to go.
    People always ask me how I decide where to go. I read, I see movies, I stare at maps, I dream. And in doing so, I arrived at these 10 places that are tops on my list for 2009. Some are old favorites that are newly affordable. Others have a special...

    Tags: Judaism, Chile, Ceremonies, International Organizations, Volcanoes

    7. Feb 4, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Molly Ivins -- 'a truth-seeking missile'

    KINKY FRIEDMAN is an author, musician and former candidate for governor of Texas.
    Atrue maverick died in Texas last week, and they don't make 'em extra. There'll always be plenty of George Bushes and John Kerrys to go around; the Crips and the Bloods will trot them out every four years whether we like it or not. But a voice in the...

    Tags: Government, Periodicals, Kentucky Fried Chicken, John Brown, Death

    8. Feb 19, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. In B.C., knocking on heaven's door

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    THE summit of Typee cuts the sky like a serrated knife. A wind-whipped cornice falls away sharply to the Pequod Glacier a thousand feet down to the right. To the left, a gentler powder slope reveals our ascent, a foot-deep diagonal line in the snow,...

    Tags: Mountains, Spain, Hotels and Accommodations, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure

    9. Feb 28, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Waiting for death, alone and unafraid

    The silence of night never lasts long. It ends somewhere in the 5 o'clock hour with the purring of the heater and distant strains of Sam Cooke.
    The silence of night never lasts long. It ends somewhere in the 5 o'clock hour with the purring of the heater and distant strains of Sam Cooke. Edwin Shneidman looks at the clock -- an hour and a half since turning off the TV and closing his eyes. "Mrs....

    Tags: Civil Unrest, Hospitals and Clinics, Bible, Television, Homes

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

  10. California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art

    In the 2008 California Biennial at the <a href="http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=current%232008_California_Biennial">Orange County Museum of Art</a>, the tour de force is an animatronic sculpture by Daniel J. Martinez. It resonates in many ways. <b>&#182;</b> Beneath bright white fluorescent lights, Martinez has constructed a low white platform in a large white room reached by a gently sloping ramp. Near one corner, a lifelike latex sculpture of a man lies on its back on the floor. Dressed in white pants and white shirt, with close-cropped hair and facial stubble, the figure appears deranged. <b><b></b>&#182;</b> Its eyes are rolled back, its teeth bared. A chunky, hip-hop-style silver belt buckle spells out the name "Ishmael." At regular intervals, the reclining robot comes to mechanical life. <b><b></b>&#182;</b> An arm flops. A leg kicks. The head rolls forward and the torso twitches. <b><b></b>&#182;</b> When the flailing body parts hit the raised floor, it acts like a loud drum. The herky-jerky motion gets steadily more forceful, sometimes exposing the mechanical works beneath the floor that propel the man. The escalating racket is a cross between percussive music and a machine gun. It's exciting, but there's also a sense of relief when the figure finally pipes down and goes limp, returning to its static, soundless state. <b><b></b>&#182;</b> Ishmael, of course, is the narrator of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," in which he serves as a roving symbol for society's outcasts. It is one measure of Martinez's bracing audacity that he appropriates without hesitation an epic of American literary culture. The whiteness of the whale morphs into the abstract white cube of the modern art gallery -- as well as the dominance of European ancestry in contemporary culture. <b><b></b>&#182;</b> A bare white space is a popular emblem for a madhouse too. Martinez's flailing figure -- notably, a self-portrait of the artist -- is crazed and kept down within an institutional context, both social and artistic. He's also mechanically manipulated within it, unable to act independently.
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    In the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, the tour de force is an animatronic sculpture by Daniel J. Martinez. It resonates in many ways. ΒΆ Beneath bright white fluorescent lights, Martinez has constructed a low white platform in...

    Tags: Photography, Arts and Culture, Landforms, Arts, Caves and Caverns

    11. Apr 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Whale sightings off Chile raise hope

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    From the earliest days of exploration, mariners in Chile's cool southern waters marveled at the abundance of whales. A Jesuit naturalist wrote of the sea "boiling" with the spouts of the leviathans. Among 19th century Nantucket boatmen, the island of...

    Tags: Animals, Wildlife, Natural Resources, Conservation, Happiness (state of mind)

    12. Oct 26, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Rediscovering early fictional America detective James Brampton

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that after Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death in 1849, detective fiction did not make another splash on these shores until a pipe-smoking Englishman with remarkable powers of deduction became a transatlantic sensation. Certainly Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson inspired stateside copycats around the turn of the 20th century, such as Arthur B. Reeve's scientifically-minded sleuth Craig Kennedy, but mystery readers looking for immediate literary successors to Poe's dark tales of detection would have to resign themselves to a vacuum of time until Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins' gothic-tinged detective novels showed up on the scene.
    It is a truth universally acknowledged that after Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death in 1849, detective fiction did not make another splash on these shores until a pipe-smoking Englishman with remarkable powers of deduction became a transatlantic...

    Tags: Book, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Death, Wilkie Collins

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