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Literature and the gift of words
In this age of Kindle and iPad and e-books, I write by hand, on little notepads, in my car. I have written in my car since I was 22 and working on my first novel. Then, the car was a broken-down pale green Fiat. I sat in the driver's seat while my then-...
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Review: Ryan Adams at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Pop & HissRyan Adams performed the first of two sold out nights at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts was there to review it.... -
Theater review: 'The Christmas Present' at Sacred Fools Theater
Culture MonsterGuy Picot's dark British comedy "The Christmas Present" has its U.S. premiere at Sacred Fools Theater. Margaret Gray reviews.... -
Book review: 'The Art of Fielding' by Chad Harbach
The Art of Fielding
A Novel
Chad Harbach
Little, Brown: 528 pp., $25.99
In terms of conjuring a shorthand for a certain American innocence, there are few delivery systems quite so direct as baseball. Touched on by a library's worth of authors...Tags: Baseball, Stephen King, John Updike, Chuck Knoblauch, John Irving
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The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon
Jacket CopyLots of great book titles with bacon! And if you've seen too many go by on Twitter lately, blame Carolyn Kellogg and Elissa Schappell.... -
Book Review: 'To Be Sung Underwater' by Tom McNeal
Special to the Los Angeles TimesTo Be Sung Underwater A Novel Tom McNeal Little, Brown: 436 pp., $24.99 You can often tell where a musician has trained or with whom a painter has learned technique. In the case of the European masters, art historians looking at a particular work...Tags: Human Interest, Literature, Rentals, Physical Conditions, Health
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Tea Obreht wins the Orange Prize
Jacket CopyAt 25, Tea Obreht is the youngest writer to win the Orange Prize for Fiction.... -
Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFor much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Human Interest, John Dos Passos, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Richard Ford
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Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
Book calendar events for the week of March 27, 2011
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich SUNDAY 826LA Adult Writing Seminar Series: TV Writing: Panelists include Jane Espenson, Drew Z. Greenberg and Damon Lindelof. Meltdown Comics, 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., L.A. 7 p.m. $12-$15. (213) 413-3388. http:/...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Education, Science and Technology, Anglicanism, John O'Hara
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Our 12 favorite non-book literary oddities on EBay
Jacket CopyInspired by Salinger's toilet -- which was listed for sale on EBay for $1 million -- Jacket Copy decided to see what other literary-ish items are currently for sale on the site. What we discovered? The doozy dozen. The first...... -
George Hitchcock dies at 96; poet and publisher of the literary magazine 'kayak'
George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine "kayak" helped free American poetry from mid-20th century orthodoxies and provided an early forum for such distinguished...Tags: Politics, Health and Medical Professionals, Periodicals, Anne Sexton, Poetry
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