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John Updike's house to become a museum
Jacket CopyThe John Updike Society will purchase the author's childhood home, with plans to turn it into a museum.... -
Quick Takes: TBS snags 'Cougar Town'
"Cougar Town" is packing up and moving to a new address. The ABC sitcom starring Courteney Cox, which has a loyal fan base but has never drawn a huge audience and may have been close to getting axed, has been given new life by TBS. The series is moving...Tags: Courteney Cox, South Chicago, Satellite and Cable Service, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events
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Typewriter fan Steve Soboroff loves the click-clack of carriages
When Steve Soboroff gets one of them in his sights, he goes into what he calls "emergency overdrive." He has been known to bug estate lawyers, hoping to move in and make an acquisition before someone else has the same idea. Sometimes, his enthusiasm...
Tags: The Twilight Zone (tv program), India, Egypt, FBI, Ray Bradbury
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Take Grisham out to the ballgame
Jacket CopyJohn Grisham's new novel "Calico Joe," coming in April, will be about baseball.... -
National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for 2011 awards
Jacket CopyThe National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2011 book awards at a public ceremony on Saturday in New York City. Two Southern California writers are among those up for the awards, which will be presented on March...... -
This Sunday: The critic's art and Gil Scott-Heron too
Jacket CopyThe Los Angeles Times Book section looks to its Jan. 29, 2012, issue. Book criticism, Gil Scott-Heron and more.... -
Critic's Notebook: Grantland takes on the bigger world of sports
Los Angeles Times Book CriticWhen it comes to sportswriting, I tend to subscribe to George Plimpton's small-ball theory: The smaller the ball, the better the writing about the sport. This has a lot to do with my own biases (I'm a baseball fan, not much interest in basketball or...Tags: Malcolm Gladwell, HBO (tv network), Dave Eggers, Chicago Cubs, Gaming
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The Far East Movement drop 'Bump from the Trunk Vol. 1'
Pop & HissThe Far East Movement make pop music. Their core is hip-hop and they incorporate various strains of electronic music, but they make music for the masses and they do it well.... -
The consequences of letting it rip in 1974
So there's my name, on Page 1 of "Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980," the Getty's massive overview catalog for its monumental effort to get Southern California modern art into the heretofore New York-centric history of American modernism....Tags: Dick Cheney, Arts, Periodicals, Edward Ruscha, Fine Arts
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Celebrating Flann O'Brien
Jacket CopyUnderappreciated author Flann O'Brien is moving into the spotlight: his centenary will be celebrated in Ireland this weekend, and a film adaptation of his first novel may be on the way.... -
Book review: 'The Art of Fielding' by Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding
A Novel
Chad Harbach
Little, Brown: 528 pp., $25.99
In terms of conjuring a shorthand for a certain American innocence, there are few delivery systems quite so direct as baseball. Touched on by a library's worth of authors...Tags: Baseball, Chuck Knoblauch, Literature, Raymond Carver, Rick Ankiel
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