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IWA Literature Group
IWA (International Women Associates) has members in the city and suburbs. About 25 to 30 members meet once a month, cheerfully squeezing into members' living rooms. We come with notes and annotated copies. Our many volunteer leaders are adept at...Tags: Julian Barnes
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This week in L.A.: Times Book Prizes, festival highlight active week
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Between the Covers
Our club has been meeting 10 times a year for more than 20 years. We work with our local library in Libertyville to procure our books and that month's host leads our discussion.
We have been spending more time on the book discussion recently because we'...Tags: Health, Bill Bryson, Literature, Stroke, Abraham Lincoln
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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: Book, Wynton Marsalis, Entertainment, Roddy Doyle, Germany
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2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists announced
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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: Jeffrey Eugenides, Umberto Eco, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Don DeLillo, Haruki Murakami
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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 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: Book, London (England), Migration, David O. Selznick, Immigration
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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.... -
King, Beattie books among new crop
Fiction
"The Lost Memory of Skin" (Ecco) by Russell Banks. Coming Tuesday. Banks, one of our finest and most adventurous novelists, is not afraid to tackle big, tough topics that persistently bedevil the human species, and with his 17th book, he has...Tags: Television, Book, Stratford, Entertainment, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963)
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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: Television, Entertainment, Soups, Crime, Law and Justice, Carlos Fuentes
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