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Eleanor Roosevelt
The Daily MirrorPhotograph by Frank Q. Brown / Los Angeles Times July 10, 1960: Eleanor Roosevelt refuses to ride in a limousine to a reception, preferring to walk half a mile with reporters. The absence of former President Harry Truman underscored the Democratsâ break... -
'The Room and the Chair' by Lorraine Adams
The Room and the Chair
A Novel
Lorraine Adams
Alfred A. Knopf: 316 pp., $25.95
Lorraine Adams is a singular and important American writer. "The Room and the Chair" establishes this without question: It is remarkable for its ambitions and its...Tags: Newspapers, University of California, Irvine, Afghanistan, Air and Space Accidents, Joan Didion
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'The Double Life Is Twice as Good' by Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames may be the closest thing our generation gets to Norman Mailer. Literally a literary pugilist -- his essay of a boxing bout with another writer is included -- he's got an ever-present, outsized sense of himself. He's willing to have...Tags: Lenny Kravitz, Book, Fiction, Craigslist, Inc., Death
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'Wetlands' by Charlotte Roche
Wetlands A Novel Charlotte Roche, translated from the German by Tim Mohr Grove Press: 230 pp. $17.95 It is easy to be put off by the hype surrounding this novel. The author, Charlotte Roche, is a television personality in Germany, host of an MTV-...Tags: Vaginal Discharge, YouTube, Health and Medical Professionals, Wetlands, Depression
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Adlai Stevenson’s Last Hurrah
The Daily MirrorPhotograph by Otto / Los Angeles Times July 9, 1960: Agnes Meyer chats with Adlai Stevenson at a cocktail party in Pasadena. It has always been difficult for me to consider Adlai Stevenson a serious candidate for president, and evidently American voters... -
Pages of History
The Daily Mirror"I was seeing Pershing Square, Los Angeles, now for the first timeâ¦the nervous fugitives from Times Square, Market Street SF, the French Quarter -- masculine hustlers looking for lonely fruits to score from, anything from the legendary $20 to a pad at... -
Richard Poirier dies at 83; literary critic helped found Library of America
Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He...Tags: Yale University, Harvard University, Alfred Kazin, Willa Cather, Herman Melville
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Frank McCourt dies at 78; late-blooming author of 'Angela's Ashes'
Frank 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: Diseases and Illnesses, New York University, Frank McCourt, Family, Sociology
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A platoon's bravery: 'Matterhorn: A Novel' by Karl Marlantes
It will be interesting to see what kind of reception awaits Karl Marlantes' very fine Vietnam War novel, "Matterhorn." The American public's desire to read about that war has never been more than lukewarm. And Marlantes' epic story of U.S. Marines...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Heroism, Wars and Interventions, Entertainment, Companies and Corporations
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Amazon content coup? E-tailer gets exclusive Roth, Mailer, Nabokov and Updike backlist
Jacket CopyAmazon.com now has exclusive rights to sell the e-book versions of some of the best-known titles from top literary authors Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and more. In an announcement late Wednesday -- shortly after midnight... -
'Mad Men': 'Gentlemen, shall we begin 1965?'
Show TrackerAs mysterious as Don Draper is, heâs also remarkably predictable. For example, I am sure I wasn't the only one who knew that Don would be paying a visit to Anna Draper the second that Harry mentioned the layover in...... -
Cormac McCarthy's typewriter and its predecessors
Jacket CopyOn Friday, Christie's will auction Cormac McCarthy's battered blue Olivetti typewriter, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit the author supports. "I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not yet...
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