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Say hello to National Poetry Month!
Today marks the start of National Poetry Month, the monthlong celebration of the verse inaugurated in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets. The April initiative aims to highlight the legacy and achievements of America's poets, and is among the largest...
Tags: Authors, Mario Batali , Culture, Arts and Culture, Lincoln Center
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Fox Searchlight starts production on 'Black Nativity'
Fox Searchlight Pictures has commenced production in New York on the musical “Black Nativity,” director Kasi Lemmons’ adaptation of the Langston Hughes play. The cast of the all-black interpretation of the nativity story includes...
Tags: Raphael Saadiq, Music, Entertainment, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett
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Caldecott, Newbery Medals awarded by American Library Assn.
The American Library Assn. announced its 2013 book award winners Monday at its annual national conference, held this year in Seattle. While the best-known awards are the John Newbery Medal and the Caledecott Medal, there are dozens of awards, each of...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Books and Magazines, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Family, Steve Jobs
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Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads
Today the nation honors the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the reverend and activist who led the American civil rights movement. As King studied nonviolence as practiced by Gandhi and imagined by Henry David Thoreau, now his own life and work are the...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Journalism, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years
Jacket CopyThe University of Missouri will pull the plug on its 54 year old press, just the latest in a string of academic publishing casualties... -
Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future
Jacket CopyEsquire returns to its roots with a new short fiction series while making it new, e-book style.... -
This Sunday: Van Vechten's Renaissance, Watergate, Szymborska and more
Jacket CopyThis week's book coverage includes Emily Bernard's book on Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance, Thomas Mallon's novel on Watergate and a remembrance of poet Wislawa Szymborska... -
Adrienne Rich in the L.A. Times
Jacket CopyExcerpts from Adrienne Rich's writing that have appeared in the Los Angeles Times.... -
Festival of Books: Novels and the 'dream deferred'
Jacket CopyThe Los Angeles Times Festival of Books panel “The Dream Deferred” with authors Mona Simpson, Jesmyn Ward, Hector Tobar and Ayad Akhtar.... -
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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Awards and Prizes, William Kennedy, Haruki Murakami, Hungary
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Mulholland Books pulls 'Assassin of Secrets' over copied passages
Jacket CopyMulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown, has pulled its novel "Assassin of Secrets" after passages were found to be copied from James Bond novels by Ian Fleming and other thrillers....
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