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Whale sightings off Chile raise hope
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFrom 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: Nature, Conservation, Whale (animal), Charles Darwin, Environmental Issues
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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...Tags: Crimes, Mystery (genre), Crime, Law and Justice, Moby, Wilkie Collins
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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: Don DeLillo, Emily Dickinson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, Roland Barthes
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Edwin S. Shneidman dies at 91; pioneer in the field of suicide prevention
Edwin S. Shneidman, a pioneer in the field of suicide prevention and a prolific thinker and writer who believed that life is enriched by contemplation of death and dying, has died. He was 91.
He died Friday afternoon at his home in West Los Angeles,...Tags: Suicide, Science and Technology, Obituaries, Tuberculosis, Marilyn Monroe
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A splendid isolation
Times Staff WriterAs dusk fell on Papeete, Tahiti, we stood on the aft deck, sipping Yoyo the bartender's infamous rum punch. Soon the new Aranui 3 would set sail on a 15-night voyage to the remote Marquesas Islands. With America plunging into war, here we were, 4,000...Tags: Paul Gauguin, Cruises, BBC, Petroleum Industry, Survivor (tv program)
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I am now the proud owner of an American Library in Paris card, which cost about $125 for a year's subscription. When you walk through the front door on rue du General Camou, in the 7th arrondissement near the Eiffel Tower, you may as well be at a public...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Gertrude Stein, World War II (1939-1945), John Cheever, The Godfather: Part II (movie)
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Feedback: What's on your bedside table?
"The Pale King" by David Foster Wallace. It's not always an easy read, but it's funny. It's fascinating to think about how hard it must've been to write and sad to know it's his last. — Ellen Brady, Aurora I have succumbed to the hype and read...
Tags: George Balanchine, Polio
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Library of Congress disses Edgar Allen Poe
The Library of Congress' new exhibition, Books That Shaped America, includes works by many notable American authors, but there is a gaping hole: Edgar Allen Poe. The list include no-brainers: classics from such greats as Herman Melville, Louisa May...
Tags: Library of Congress, Libraries, Dr. Seuss, Louisa May Alcott , Ralph Ellison
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Bookmark: Farewell to the wild one
For every kid with a scraped knee, a skinned elbow, a bumped head and a torn shirt — the inevitable result of being very determined not to learn from one's mistakes — Maurice Sendak was your man. For every kid who builds forts out of old...Tags: Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, W.C. Fields, Maurice Sendak, Emily Dickinson
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U taps scribe for 'Moby Dick' rewrite: Hopes to bring down the budget for helmer Bekmambetov
VarietyUniversal Pictures is looking to stay in business with "Contraband" scribe Aaron Guzikowski, who is in negotiations to rewrite the studio's long-gestating adaptation of "Moby Dick" with the aim of scaling back the budget for director Timur Bekmambetov ("...Tags: Whale (animal), Alcon Incorporated, Entertainment, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (movie), Wanted (movie)
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Summits, Minority Groups, Bruno Schulz, Science and Technology, Kenzaburo Oe
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Wild Thing: Maurice Sendak made incomparable art from childhood's monsters
For every kid with a scraped knee, a skinned elbow, a bumped head and a torn shirt — the inevitable result of being very determined not to learn from one's mistakes — Maurice Sendak was your man. For every kid who builds forts out of old...
Tags: Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Where the Wild Things Are (movie), Carole King, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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