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The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon
Jacket CopyLots of great book titles with bacon! And if you've seen too many go by on Twitter lately, blame Carolyn Kellogg and Elissa Schappell.... -
10 reasons to travel
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGulliver traveled. Look where it got him: lashed to the land by little people. Columbus, big traveler, right? Underestimated the circumference of the Earth and died thinking he'd found India. Sure, you can come up with justifications for never leaving the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Westminster Abbey, Steve McQueen, Homes, Dog (animal)
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PASSINGS: Betty Sarah Wouk, Hazel Rowley
Betty Sarah Wouk Wife and agent of 'Caine Mutiny' author Betty Sarah Wouk, 90, the wife and literary agent of bestselling writer Herman Wouk, died March 17 at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs after suffering a stroke, said Suzanne Stein of...Tags: Australia, Herman Wouk, Literature, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Biographer Hazel Rowley has died
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Etsy teams with Facebook on gift idea generator
L.A. Times Tech BlogLast-minute shoppers dreading the chaos of the mall may have a new ally in online retailer Etsy. The store — known for its handmade and vintage items — has teamed up with Facebook to generate gifts ideas for friends in...... -
Book review: 'Franklin and Eleanor' by Hazel Rowley
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe relationship of Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt has fascinated observers ever since they married. Friends and relatives were surprised in 1905 by the wedding of a handsome, flirtatious, fun-loving mama's boy to his serious-minded cousin, who did...Tags: Biography (genre), Adultery, White House, Arts and Culture, Literature
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Art review: John Divola at Laxart
Culture MonsterIn the mid-‘90s, John Divola made a series of photographs of himself running away from his camera, each image recording “As Far As I Could Get” during the 10-second span of the self-timer. Around the same time, he produced another...... -
Colette's Paris
A frizzy-haired old woman wearing sandals used to sit on a stoop at the Palais-Royal in Paris. If people took her for a tramp, what did she care? Her extraordinary life was almost over. Now she could spend her afternoons eyeing passersby and cooing at...Tags: Paris (France), Jean Cocteau, Death, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cat (animal)
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'What Was Lost' by Catherine O'Flynn
What Was Lost
A Novel
Catherine O'Flynn
Henry Holt: 256 pp., $14 paper
I don't know of any art form that has been declared dead more often than the realist novel. Even the term "realist novel" is a kind of pejorative -- don't we want something more...Tags: Charles Dickens, Death, Henry Holt, Book
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David Baldacci will ruin you
Young people are constantly being warned that the information they include in their Facebook profiles could eventually come back to haunt them. Photographs of bacchanalian escapades, catastrophic sartorial decisions or intimate moments with toothless,...Tags: Jane Austen, The Godfather (movie), Fishing, Adam Sandler, Kenny Chesney
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Marjorie Grene dies at 98; historian of philosophy known as independent thinker
When the prestigious Library of Living Philosophers chose Marjorie Grene as the subject of the 29th volume in its series, the feisty 90-something thinker and writer downplayed her selection with characteristic self-deprecation. "I think," she told a...Tags: George Santayana, Biology, Death, Virginia Tech, Science and Technology
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