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Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...Tags: Heart Attack, Fort Lauderdale, Polio, William Faulkner, Colleges and Universities
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Rushworth M. Kidder dies at 67; ethics expert
Rushworth M. Kidder, a former Christian Science Monitor columnist who taught and wrote books about ethics, died March 5 of natural causes in Naples, Fla. He was 67.
His death was announced by the Institute for Global Ethics, the Rockport, Maine-based...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Wichita State University, Colleges and Universities, Religion and Belief, Science
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Festival of Books: American poets make their debut on forever stamps
Jacket CopyThe U.S. Postal Service made a special delivery Saturday at the L.A. Times Festival of Books' Poetry Stage: It rolled out the first-day issue of commemorative stamps dedicated to 20th century poets. The midday first-day issue ceremony drew an audience....... -
Book review: 'Tabloid City' by Pete Hamill
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTabloid City A Novel Pete Hamill Little, Brown: 278 pp., $26.99 There's murder and mayhem in Pete Hamill's latest novel, "Tabloid City," but the real victim in his book is the print journalism that Hamill knows and loves so well. This ticking time...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Assault, Newspaper and Magazine, Crime, Law and Justice, Tom Wolfe
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The clarinet stories of jazz player Ben Goldberg
Culture MonsterCatching up with jazz clarinetist Ben Goldberg and his Go Home combo.... -
Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, Dec. 10, 1960
The Daily MirrorDec. 10, 1960: Matt Weinstock has the story of English instructor James Durbin, who read poems to USCâs English Club without disclosing the poets' names. The works were written by Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings and a...... -
Gifts: On Valentine's Day have a little heart
All The RageThis one goes out to a guy after our own heart â and heâs got it now. Somehow the amorous little monogram has a lot more soul when itâs tucked in to be our little secret, rather than carried on...... -
When poetry goes bad, on purpose
Jacket CopyThere is a certain anxiety around high art. What are those opera singers saying? Is that Giacometti sculpture a little unsettlingly skinny? Is Stockhausen supposed to sound this way? And if I don't like something, does that mean I don't...... -
'Brothers & Sisters': The wedding that wasn't
Show TrackerFrom the very start of last night's episode of "Brothers & Sisters," Justin's and Rebecca's wedding looked destined for doom. Its original location, Hawaii, was in danger of being ravaged by a hurricane, forcing plans to be readjusted and postponed....... -
Forgotten treasures of the last century, from 25 writers
Jacket CopyIn 1999, the L.A. Times asked dozens of writers to look back at the prior century and share books they considered lost treasures -- books they loved that had slipped out of sight. Although the authors were formidable -- including...... -
Planted in the San Joaquin
In October 2002, a trim, white-haired poet named Don Thompson sat down in a farmhouse in the San Joaquin Valley and wrote a poem called "Turning Sixty." In it, he compared his birthday to the climb of "a few degrees on the thermometer" that "add up to the...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Colleges and Universities, Mass Media, Forestry and Timber, Robert Frost
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A free story from Nathanael West
Jacket CopyAlthough Nathanael West was not a well-known writer in his time, he wrote two lasting novels -- "The Day of the Locust" and "Miss Lonelyhearts" -- before he was killed in a car crash in 1940 (he was on his......
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