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Book review: 'Half-Blood Blues' by Esi Edugyan
Tribune NewspapersNot unlike its counterpart rock 'n' roll, memorable jazz novels occupy a pretty slim shelf at the local bookstore. Though the music has been gracefully spun into fiction by Roddy Doyle, Michael Ondaatje and — most distinctively — Rafi Zabor in...Tags: Documentary (genre), Nazi Party, Roddy Doyle, Arts and Culture, Paris (France)
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2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists announced
Jacket CopyThe complete list of finalists for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.... -
This week in L.A.: Times Book Prizes, festival highlight active week
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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: College Sports, Langston Hughes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami
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Book review: 'The Cat's Table' by Michael Ondaatje
The Cat's Table
A Novel
Michael Ondaatje
Alfred A. Knopf: 269 pp., $26
Michael Ondaatje is a quiet writer. He's certainly equal to grand, sweeping, historical subjects — civil war in Sri Lanka, the closing days of World War II — but the...Tags: David O. Selznick, Politics, Migration, Anthony Minghella, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Six finalists announced for Canada's Giller Prize
Jacket CopyScotiabank Giller Prize finalists: Michaelondaatje Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient" is one of six writers who have been named finalists for Canada's Giller Prize.... -
Believe it: Bob Dylan is favored to win Nobel Prize in literature
Jacket CopyBob Dylan as Nobel prize-winner? Bob Dylan is the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel Prize for literature.... -
Hitting the books, L.A. fashion
Opinion L.A.Sometimes L.A. needs reminding that Hollywood is not its only bread and butter, and that movies and TV are hardly the only form of entertainment. There’s books. Remember books? Here’s just my weekend’s serendipity of things book-ly: On... -
Book calendar events for the week of March 20, 2011
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY 826LA Adult Writing Seminar Series: TV Writing: A series of panel discussions featuring industry professionals will cover multiple aspects of writing for television. Panelists include John Enbom,...Tags: Carlos Fuentes, Television, Soups, Damon Lindelof, Gays and Lesbians
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'Away From Her,' written on the pages of the mind
Times Staff WriterTHE tale of a superhero, a '70s drug dealer, or a plot to destroy the world it's not. Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," which isn't really about a bear and does not feature a mountain, is the story of an elderly couple — a once-...Tags: Television, Neil Young, Don DeLillo, Toronto (Canada), Atom Egoyan
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Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
Fiction
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ($13.95)
2. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon ($15.95)
3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ($13.95)
4. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje ($13.95)
5. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones ($12)
6. No One...Tags: Nora Ephron, David Oliver, Cormac McCarthy, Barack Obama
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Louise Steinman: Talking about L.A.
This is the sixth in an occasional series of conversations with Southern California activists and intellectuals. The series and videotaped interviews with the subjects are collected at www.latimes.com/lavisions. When authors come to town, Louise Steinman...Tags: Politics, Portland (Multnomah, Oregon), Death, Forestry and Timber, Los Angeles Police Department
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