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Holiday books: Fiction
Aleph
A Novel
Paulo Coelho
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95
A crisis of faith prompts a man to begin a journey of self-discovery from Africa to Asia.
The Angel Esmeralda
Nine Stories
Don DeLillo
Scribner, $24
The first collection of short stories from a...Tags: Literature, Adultery, William Kennedy, Haruki Murakami, Julian Barnes
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Book review: 'The Pale King' by David Foster Wallace
Special to the Los Angeles Times"The Pale King" is composed of parts of the "something long" on which 46-year-old David Foster Wallace was working before he hanged himself at his home in Claremont on Sept. 12, 2008. Wallace — author of fictions such as "The Broom of the System,"...Tags: David Foster Wallace, David Lynch, Book, Internal Revenue Service, Health
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Writers Salvador Plascencia and Michael Jaime-Becerra share a city and common inspiration: El Monte
Aside from their proximity in age, and the fulsome praise they got for their debut novels, Salvador Plascencia and Michael Jaime-Becerra would appear to have little in common as writers.
Plascencia's "The People of Paper," which was published in 2005...Tags: Charlie Kaufman, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, University of California, Laurence Sterne
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'The Book of Jokes' by Momus
The Book of Jokes
A Novel
Momus
Dalkey Archive: 200 pp., $13.95 paper
Jokes are a genre of fiction, but the best way to deliver a zinger is to disguise it as autobiography. Comedians know this and the good ones transform themselves into quasi-...Tags: Sex, Literature, Arts and Culture, Death, Fiction
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Leaping forward
By Ed Park Looking backward, briefly: It went unremarked that 2007 was the year when the weirdness of time dilation hit Sgt. William Mandella. Battling the far-flung Taurans meant interstellar travel via "collapsars" (black holes); two years of army...Tags: Armed Forces, Crime, Law and Justice, Philip K Dick, John Cheever, Travel
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"United States: Essays, 1952-1992" by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal the novelist's best character is Gore Vidal the essayist. Beside him even Myra Breckenridge seems a pale creation, and this great fat book, chronicling 40 years of the essayist's adventures, is like a lively picaresque novel in reverse. Its...Tags: Constipation, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Tennessee Williams, Cotton Mather
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Anti-smoking advocates celebrate in Indianapolis as bars go smoke-free
Anti-smoking advocates celebrated Friday as approximately 300 bars and taverns in Indianapolis went smoke-free. The strengthened ordinance took effect at 6 a.m. "Today will go down in Indianapolis history. Today, we join hundreds of communities across...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Lung Cancer, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Nursing Homes
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Stricter proposed smoking ban passes committee
The Indianapolis City-County Council is trying to take on the smoking ban again. A city-wide smoking ban targeting bars passed out of committee Tuesday. The plan will now head to the full council. Proposal 136 seeks to strengthen the already existing...
Tags: Laws, Lung Cancer, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Laws
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Electronic cigarettes could be included in city's smoking ban
Electronic cigarettes are supposed to be better for your health than regular cigarettes, but some Indianapolis City-County councilors are now trying to get those banned as well. The latest proposed smoking ban, passed by a committee Tuesday night,...
Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Quitting Smoking, Civil Laws, Electronics
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Animal Care and Control implements fee to cut down on overcrowding
Animal Care and Control of Indianapolis hopes a new fee will help cut down on animal surrenders from outside Marion County and, in turn, help reduce severe overcrowding. The City-County Council recently approved a $40 fee for people from outside the...
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English 101
Each novelist requires circumstance — a situation to describe, from which a conflict arises — and the ivy-covered college hall or dormitory room provides such context readily. It would take research and, thereafter, expertise to write about...
Tags: Literature, Genres, Colleges and Universities, University of Michigan, Butterfly Ballots
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Indianapolis City-County Council passes new smoking ban
The city of Indianapolis has again passed a smoking ban. The council approving the proposal 20-9 Monday night. The ban specifically targets smoking in bars. It is a compromise with the mayor. The Democrats who sponsored the bill took out the ban on...
Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Democratic Party, Civil Laws
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