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Anna Deavere Smith on healthcare, mimicry and President Obama
Show TrackerAnna Deavere Smith, whose play "Let Me Down Easy" premieres on PBS, talks about the writing process and documentary theater.... -
Barbara Kingsolver to receive lifetime achievement award
Jacket CopyBestselling author Barbara Kingsolver will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.... -
Geraldine Brooks to receive the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's lifetime achievement award
Jacket CopyOn Thursday, the organizers of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced that this year's lifetime achievement award will be presented to Geraldine Brooks. The Australian journalist-turned-novelist has written about war as both fact and fiction. Her... -
Backers of legalizing marijuana in California are counting on support from young voters
L.A. NOWRecent polls have shown support for Proposition 19 slipping. Backers of the measure that would legalize marijuana in California are counting on young voters for success. But that could be a problem. On the eve of Tuesday’s election, a noon...... -
Writers and editors
Writers and editors George MacDonald Fraser, 82; author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure novels (Jan. 2) Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; editor of the New Republic, helped launch new talent (Jan. 3) Philip Agee, 72; former CIA official wrote...Tags: Bernard Malamud, James Dean, The Washington Post, Chuck Yeager, Science and Technology
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'Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist,' by Bill Ayers
Fugitive Days
Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist
Bill Ayers
With a New Afterword
by the Author
Beacon Press: 316 pp., $15 paper
With time running out on his bid for the White House, John McCain used the final presidential debate to play his Bill Ayers...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Politics, Al-Qaeda, Bill Ayers, Death
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From our archives: Studs Terkel
Voices, and a few virtuosos (September 3, 2005) It's tempting to mock this uneven collection of conversations as an attempt by Studs Terkel, now 93, to squeeze every penny out of every inch of recording tape he's used in four decades of collecting oral...Tags: Journalism, Bill Clinton, Awards and Prizes, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture
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Studs Terkel and the FBI
Jacket CopyIn the 1930s, Studs Terkel applied to the FBI to be a fingerprint guy -- maybe if he'd gotten the job, we would have had "CSI: Studs Terkel." But the FBI turned him away and in 1945 began surveillance that...... -
Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, dies at 96
Studs Terkel, who made his name listening to ordinary folks talk about their ordinary lives -- and who turned that knack for conversation into a much-honored literary career -- died Friday. He was 96.
Terkel died of old age at his home in Chicago, his...Tags: Society, Bob Dylan, University of Chicago, Civil Rights, Awards and Prizes
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Everyday Joe TV catches fire -- with help from the Cable Guy, Sarah Palin and Kate Gosselin
Show TrackerHad it up to here with the Kardashians, Tori and Dean, Kirstie Alley, Giuliana and BIll and dozens of other celebrities giving you a "fly-on-the-wall" view into their fabulous lives? There's plenty more where that came from on networks' development...... -
John Leonard dies at 69; erudite critic was early champion of Toni Morrison and other writers
The Associated PressLiterary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and so informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as "the smartest man who ever lived," has died. He...Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Obituaries, Harvard University, Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards
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Letters to the editor
Words of farewell Re “Studs Terkel, 1912-2008,” Obituary, Nov. 1 I first met Studs Terkel when I became senior vice president at Playboy Enterprises and started spending a lot of time in Chicago. He was easygoing and acerbic, witty and...Tags: Crimes, Health and Medical Professionals, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Civil Rights, African Americans
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