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Book review: 'The Dangerous Otto Katz: The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy' by Jonathan Miles
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Dangerous Otto Katz The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy Jonathan Miles Bloomsbury: 366 pp., $26 He had at least 21 aliases. He insisted that he was briefly Marlene Dietrich's husband in 1920s Berlin, which was probably not so, though he was possibly...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Elia Kazan, Book, Czech Republic, Russia
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Paperback Writers: James Boswell's 'London Journal 1762-1763'; Michael J. Arlen's 'Exiles' [Updated]
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe handwritten pages of James Boswell's " London Journal 1762-1763" languished forgotten in a trunk in Scotland before being brought to light in the middle of the last century and issued under the auspices of Yale University. This event, together with...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Medical Professionals, Family, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo
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Vance Bourjaily dies at 87; novelist, professor whose WWII experiences influenced early work
Vance Bourjaily, a novelist and professor of writing who was part of the post- World War II generation of writers whose wartime experiences influenced their early work, has died. He was 87.
Bourjaily, who was discovered by legendary editor Max Perkins,...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Colleges and Universities, University of Iowa, Greenwich Village, William Styron
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Summer reading: Stephanie Anderson on Ernest Hemingway
Jacket CopyAs summer gets underway, we've created the L.A. Times list of 60 books for 92 days. All of these are new titles, being released in time for summer 2010. At Jacket Copy, we're asking writers and other bookish types about...... -
An American matador's encounters with bulls and Hemingway
Jacket CopyJuly might be a month of sultry summer heat and a time to celebrate American independence, but for the literary set it's also a month of anniversaries for Ernest Hemingway and for those who lived in his rough-and-tumble world. Aside...... -
Sean Penn may play editor Max Perkins
Jacket CopyActor Sean Penn is in discussions to play editor Maxwell Perkins, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film, called "Genius," is based on A. Scott Berg's 1987 biography, "Maxwell Perkins: Editor of Genius." From 1910 until his death in 1947,...... -
Our 12 favorite non-book literary oddities on EBay
Jacket CopyInspired by Salinger's toilet -- which was listed for sale on EBay for $1 million -- Jacket Copy decided to see what other literary-ish items are currently for sale on the site. What we discovered? The doozy dozen. The first...... -
Spanish party seeks to enshrine bullfighting as part of the country's cultural heritage
L.A. UnleashedMADRID â Ernest Hemingway was fascinated by bullfighting and artist Goya depicted it in some of his most famous paintings. Now Spain's leading opposition party wants to enshrine it as part of the nation's cultural heritage -- and stop efforts...... -
Stormy history of Florida's Pigeon Key
Getting to Pigeon Key these days isn't as easy as it used to be. In years past, it was a popular place to take a break -- and maybe grab a cold drink or dash a few lines on a postcard -- during the long drive from Miami to Key West. A ramp from the two-...Tags: Arts and Culture, Hurricanes, Transportation, Corporate Crime, Trips and Vacations
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'The O. Henry Prize Stories 2009'
"The world which is being pictured by the story writers of today . . . is, by and large, and vividly, this day's, this troubled minute's, world." So Wilbur Daniel Steele wrote in the introduction to the 1943 edition of "The O. Henry Prize Stories."...Tags: O. Henry, Flannery O'Connor, Nadine Gordimer, Cynthia Ozick, William Faulkner
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When famous writers feud
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: Crime, Law and Justice, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Punishment, French Literature
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Budd Schulberg dies at 95; author of 'What Makes Sammy Run?'
Budd Schulberg, who exposed the dark side of American ambition in his acclaimed Hollywood novel "What Makes Sammy Run?" and won an Academy Award for his screenplay depicting the mob-controlled longshoremen's union in the film classic "On the Waterfront,"...Tags: Parties and Movements, Awards and Prizes, Elia Kazan, MGM Inc., Newspapers
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