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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: Crimes, Communist Party of China, Fiction, John Ford, Newspaper and Magazine
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Fantasy Xmas shopping for book lovers: Christie's droolworthy auction
Jacket CopyLooking for just the right gifts for the book lovers in your life? Today, in two auctions, Christie's is auctioning some rare and stunning literary artifacts. Cormac McCarthy's typewriter is only the beginning; there are first editions and letters and....... -
'Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad' by Jeffrey Fleishman
Foreign correspondent Jay Morgan isn't yet 40, but he is burned out by war. He lost his wife, a combat photographer, to a bullet in Beirut. By the late 1990s, he is in Kosovo, where Serb paramilitaries are skirmishing with Albanian-ethnic rebels. When the...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Literature, NATO, Newspapers, Transportation Accidents
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'Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Work and Days' and 'A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition'
In 1936, the year his wife, Zelda, was committed, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Crack-Up," an account of his own unraveling, for Esquire. Life, he explained, is composed of events we can't control. But "there is another sort of blow that comes from...Tags: Social Issues, Death, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Republican Party, Abusive Behavior
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Music to My Eyes
It wasnt seeing Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival that made him do it (though that was a factor). It was moments later, as producer Lou Adler strutted around with one of the hottest women ever. That was the moment Jeff...Tags: Arts and Culture, Joni Mitchell, Colleges and Universities, F. Scott Fitzgerald, David Fincher
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Cormac McCarthy's $254,500 typewriter
Jacket CopyCormac McCarthy's typewriter sold at auction today for 254,500 bones, more than 12 times the estimated cost of $15,000-$20,000. And the thing barely works! Functionality isn't the point, of course: Provenance is. It's notable that McCarthy has written all... -
Christmas 1608
The Daily Mirror"The General Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Islands," on display at the Huntington Library. "Sleeping in his boat, accidentallie one fired his powder bag, which tore the flesh from his body and thighes, nine or ten inches square in a... -
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What's on your summer reading list? Maybe you've got it all worked out already, but if you don't, here are 60 possibilities, arranged by the months in which they'll be published -- the best of this summer's forthcoming reads.
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And Then There's...Tags: Crimes, Anita Brookner, Death, Jimmy Carter, Central Intelligence Agency
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Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Mega-Tsunami: 5 Years Later' looks back at the 2004 disaster
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Dec. 20 - 26, in PDF format This week's TV Movies HIGH-WATER MARK: The new special 'Mega-Tsunami: 5 Years Later' recalls the deadly 2004 tsunami, mostly through amateur video footage...... -
Off The Shelf: The day Hemingway's Nobel Prize came out of hiding
Last year, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The prize has been handed out annually, with the exception of the World War II years, since 1901, when French poet René F.A. Sully-...Tags: Crimes, Death, World War II (1939-1945), Tourism and Leisure, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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James Frey's best work?
Jacket CopySmith Magazine's six-word memoirs have been lodged in the literary firmament since the 2008 release of "Not Quite What I Was Planning," a pocket-sized collection that became a bestseller. The idea of a story in six words was inspired by...... -
Nobel laureates in literature: the good, the bad and the Nazi
Jacket CopyWhen the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe...
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