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    Jun 12, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. The orgy of literary treasures bought at Sotheby's auction

    Hold on to your hats: Things are about to get hot around here. Hot, that is, for people who love books, who covet literary rarities and whose pulses race at the thought of holding a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in their very own hands.
    Hold on to your hats: Things are about to get hot around here. Hot, that is, for people who love books, who covet literary rarities and whose pulses race at the thought of holding a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in their very...

    Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize Awards, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Arts and Culture, Authors

    2. Jun 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. All eyes on Apple as e-book price-fixing trial begins

    Apple headed to court Monday, as its e-book price fixing trial begins. The U.S. Justice Department alleged last year that Apple had conspired with five publishers to set the prices for e-books when it was planning to launch the iPad and enter the e-book market.
    Apple headed to court Monday, as its e-book price fixing trial begins. The U.S. Justice Department alleged last year that Apple had conspired with five publishers to set the prices for e-books when it was planning to launch the iPad and enter the e-book...

    Tags: Books, Books and Magazines, Apple iPad, Crime, Law and Justice, News Corp.

    3. May 31, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. The artful meditation of Karen Green, David Foster Wallace's widow

    "Bough Down," the first book by artist Karen Green, arrives trailing a train of sorrow. Green was married to writer David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in September 2008. He was 46. Green has surfaced intermittently since then, giving few interviews. In 2009, at an exhibit in South Pasadena, she showed a piece called "The Forgiveness Machine," a 7-foot-long device into which one placed a piece of paper inscribed with what you wanted forgiven; the paper emerged, shredded, from the other end of the machine. The exhibition, one of her first public appearances since her husband's death, was draining for Green, and she told an interviewer that she struggled to make it through. She never used the machine herself.
    "Bough Down," the first book by artist Karen Green, arrives trailing a train of sorrow. Green was married to writer David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in September 2008. He was 46. Green has surfaced intermittently since then, giving few...

    Tags: Poetry, Suicide

    4. Jun 2, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. David L. Ulin's summer reading project

    Summer is my favorite season — always has been. Partly, it's the light: slow and thick, like a glaze of honey spread across the world. Partly, it's the heat, which I feel in my joints, making me imagine I was loose-limbed again.
    Summer is my favorite season — always has been. Partly, it's the light: slow and thick, like a glaze of honey spread across the world. Partly, it's the heat, which I feel in my joints, making me imagine I was loose-limbed again. But more than...

    Tags: The Twilight Zone (tv program), Book, Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick, Authors

    5. May 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. A book for Mother's Day? The mystery of my mother's reading habits

    No two readers are alike. No two mothers are alike. And the only way to really find out what might be a good book to get your mother for Mother’s Day is to ask her what she likes to read.
    No two readers are alike. No two mothers are alike. And the only way to really find out what might be a good book to get your mother for Mother’s Day is to ask her what she likes to read. My own mother’s reading habits have always been a bit...

    Tags: Golda Meir, Central Intelligence Agency, Mother's Day, Authors, Guatemala

    6. May 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Celebrate Thomas Pynchon's birthday with Pynchon in Public Day

    Happy birthday to Thomas Pynchon! The reclusive author  of "Gravity's Rainbow," "The Crying of Lot 49," "Mason & Dixon" and more turns 76 today.
    Happy birthday to Thomas Pynchon! The reclusive author  of "Gravity's Rainbow," "The Crying of Lot 49," "Mason & Dixon" and more turns 76 today. Unlike the attention-seekers that clog our cultural aqueduct, Pynchon isn't likely to show up on CNN or NPR....

    Tags: NPR, Arts and Culture, Twitter, Inc., Social Media

    7. May 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Stephen Colbert, Jennifer Egan and 'The Great Gatsby' [Video]

    On his show Thursday night, Stephen Colbert hosted a book club with distinct Oprah-like overtones: cozy chairs, yellow pillows, a pastel tie and chardonnay. The book at hand was F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." To discuss the novel, he...

    Tags: True Blood (tv program), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Oprah Winfrey, Entertainment Events, Fiction

    8. Apr 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Adam Johnson wins the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 2013

    The Pulitzer Prize in fiction, announced Monday, has been awarded to Adam Johnson for his book set in North Korea, "The Orphan Master's Son." The committee described the book as "an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart."
    The Pulitzer Prize in fiction, announced Monday, has been awarded to Adam Johnson for his book set in North Korea, "The Orphan Master's Son." The committee described the book as "an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome...

    Tags: Journalism, Pulitzer Prize Awards, North Korea, Ernest Hemingway, NPR

    9. May 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Mixtape review: Chance the Rapper's stellar, infinite 'Acid Rap'

    <em>This post has been updated. See below for details.</em>
    Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic
    This post has been updated. See below for details. An infinite jest, Chicago lyricist Chance the Rapper's stellar new mixtape "Acid Rap" begins with a woman's seductive voice -- chanteuse Lili K. -- uttering, "Even better than I was the last time, baby,...

    Tags: Butter, Lil Reese, Chief Keef, Kanye West, LSD

    10. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Spring preview: 6 books and literary events in the spotlight

    Here are six books (and book events) to which I'm especially looking forward: a preview of the writes of spring.
    Here are six books (and book events) to which I'm especially looking forward: a preview of the writes of spring. April 2 "The Flamethrowers" by Rachel Kushner Scribner Rachel Kushner's first novel, "Telex From Cuba," was a sensation: Set in the years...

    Tags: Cuba, Architecture, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Artists

    11. Feb 19, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Prefer not to? Kevin Smokler says you should reread 'Bartleby'

    It's almost as if Kevin Smokler found himself in 30-something detention: well into adulthood, he was sentenced to go back and re-read the books he read in high school English class. He might have escaped if he hadn't <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">been passing notes in class</span> written that book proposal.&nbsp;
    It's almost as if Kevin Smokler found himself in 30-something detention: well into adulthood, he was sentenced to go back and re-read the books he read in high school English class. He might have escaped if he hadn't been passing notes in class written...

    Tags: Steve Harvey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Happiest News!

    12. Jan 28, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. What's happening to CalArts' literary journal Black Clock?

    <em>This post has been updated. Please see below for details.</em>
    This post has been updated. Please see below for details. The California Institute of the Arts launched its literary journal Black Clock in 2004 with pieces by some of the best writers of the moment: David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Aimee Bender...

    Tags: Rick Moody, Jane Austen, Periodicals, Arts and Culture, Media Industry

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