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"Muriel Spark: The Biography" by Martin Stannard
Special to the Tribune"Muriel Spark: The Biography" By Martin Stannard W.W. Norton. 656 pages. $35 By nearly any measure Muriel Spark was a major 20th-century writer -- of longer fiction (twenty two novels); short fiction (sixty+ stories, published and republished in six...Tags: Shirley Hazzard, Awards and Prizes, Fiction, Judaism, Arts and Culture
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Check It Out: Celebrating holiday season with the memoir
Merriam-Webster defines memoir as a "narrative composed from personal experience." It may encompass the entirety of a person's life, or only a portion of it. This sets it apart from a traditional autobiography, which is usually a chronological account...Tags: Music, William F. Buckley, Entertainment, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe
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"The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel" By Adam Langer
Special to the Tribune'The Thieves of Manhattan: A Novel' By Adam Langer Spiegel & Grau, 259 pp., $24 By their chunky glasses, facial scruff, skinny jeans, and iPhones you shall know them: New York’s latest crop of aspiring male fiction writers, fresh from the provinces...Tags: Fencing, Heroin, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Gore Vidal, Joan Rivers
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In The Arts
'New Beginnings' at DeMossa Gallery Jovan Karlo Villalba's will feature his recent cinematic painting series "New Beginnings" through October 2 at DeMossa Gallery in Laguna Beach. The exhibit, which explores the natural and man-made world's...Tags: Minority Groups, Arts and Culture, Anglicanism, National Basketball Association, National Football League
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Frank McCourt, Author Of 'Angela's Ashes,' Dies At 78
Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles TimesFrank McCourt, the retired New York City schoolteacher who launched his late-in-life literary career by tapping memories of his grim, poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to write the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes," died Sunday of cancer....Tags: Family, Awards and Prizes, Hospitals and Clinics, Journalism, Cinderella (fictional character)
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J.D. Salinger, 'Catcher in the Rye' Author, Dead at 91
Associated PressNEW YORK -- J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91. Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the...Tags: Family, Arts and Culture, Herman Melville, CNN (tv network), U.S. Army
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To see this weekend? Clash, maybe. Last Song, if thatâs your thing
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel â Frankly My DearReviews are trending negative on both the major motion pictures going into wide release this weekend. The Last Song is, in my estimation, marginally better than the usual Nicholas Sparks piffle. The guy's so full of himself that he really ought to be kept... -
A media memoir
Times Staff WriterAMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — During an eventful 45-year career, Edward Kosner has held some of the most prestigious posts in journalism, as the editor of Newsweek, New York magazine, Esquire and the New York Daily News. But when it came time to write his...Tags: Cindy Crawford, The Washington Post, Arts and Culture, Rupert Murdoch, Culture
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Marilyn Monroe's Photo Legacy
Zap2It.comAmong Hollywood celebrities, the life and work of Marilyn Monroe have hardly been underrepresented over the years since her death in 1962 at age 36. Films, books and even plays have analyzed Monroe from what would seem to be every angle. That hasn't kept...Tags: Movies, Photography, Gloria Steinem, Arts and Culture, Marilyn Monroe
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Epilogue, a rough draft
Times Staff WriterHIS eyesight and hearing are diminished and arthritis in both knees forces him to walk with two canes. At 84, Norman Mailer gropes for words that do not come so easily. He looks frail and vulnerable. But he's still in the ring, having just published...Tags: Death, Lee Harvey Oswald, Adolf Hitler, Wages and Pensions, Judaism
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