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The new talkies: Audible is ready for its Hollywood close-up
The Big PictureMovie stars really do know how to read: Audible is ready for its Hollywood close up... -
Piri Thomas dies at 83; Latino writer
For Piri Thomas, being a dark-hued Latino in 1930s New York was far from the best of worlds. His siblings were fair-skinned, like his Puerto Rican mother, but he took after his black Cuban father, whose unsettled feelings about race scarred both of them....Tags: Religion and Belief, Documentary (genre), East Harlem, Malcolm X, Poetry
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Paperback Writers: Sunlight and shadow in 'Los Angeles in the 1930s'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesCreated by FDR in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (a small part of the wider Works Progress Administration) was a make-work agency that gave jobs to about 6,500 writers, editors and researchers before closing shop...Tags: Crimes, Photography and Video, Los Angeles Police Department, Book, James Robert Thompson
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Summer reading: Fiction, poetry
Busy Monsters William Giraldi W.W. Norton: $24.95 When a mediocre writer's bride-to-be leaves him to search for a legendary giant squid, he treks across the continent seeking counsel from nefarious creatures on how to win back her affections. (August)...Tags: Crimes, Poetry, Science and Technology, Germany, Human Interest
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Book review: 'Letters,' Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor
Special to the Los Angeles TimesLetters Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor Viking: 608 pp, $35 Saul Bellow, being Saul Bellow, coined literary profit from emotional tumult. From personal pain came self-exploration and impish bons mots, poured into the heightened confessional of...Tags: Crimes, Martin Amis, Human Interest, Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards
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Wylie-Amazon e-books partnership gives in to Random House
Jacket CopyPowerful agent Andrew Wylie's plan to sell the e-book backlist of some of his best-known authors -- among them John Updike, Ralph Ellison and Philip Roth -- has come mostly undone. The e-book venture, Odyssey Editions, is a partnership with...... -
Fall preview: Publishing
Los Angeles TimesNot that long ago, e-books were an oddity: Devices were expensive, and those who invested in them struggled to find something good to read. But the age of preferring paperbacks is starting to look like the late era of CDs — e-books are ascendant....Tags: Dining and Drinking, Books and Magazines, Science and Technology, John Updike, Book
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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... -
Random House, Wylie and Amazon: Why the public tussle?
Jacket CopyI admit, sometimes the questions I ask on Jacket Copy are somewhat rhetorical, but this is not one of those times. What, exactly, is going on with powerful agent Andrew Wylie and Amazon.com and Random House? What do the parties...... -
Christopher Sorrentino assumes Dad's prose
After J.D. Salinger died in January, speculation began anew about the possibility that his New Hampshire study might be packed with 45 years' worth of unpublished writings, the fruit of his extraordinary reticence. The question of whether such work should...Tags: Books and Magazines, Samuel Beckett, Death, Social Issues, Vladimir Nabokov
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It's culture, not just class size
In his Blowback, "Stop cheering on charter schools," Mathew C. Taylor mentions California's high teacher-student ratios as problematic for the state. Other union leaders and Los Angeles school administrators also needle teachers with the ever-looming...Tags: Culture, Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Unified School District
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Reasons to shiver: New in paperback
"The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III" edited by Philip Gourevitch (Picador) "Have you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund Wilson, for example?" asks Julian Jebb, the guy sent by the Paris Review to interview...Tags: Crimes, Franz Kafka, Harold Pinter, Mamma Mia! (movie), Book
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