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C. David Heymann dies at 67; controversial bestselling biographer
C. David Heymann, a bestselling biographer whose titillating accounts of famous lives often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled because of factual disputes, has died. He was 67.
Heymann...Tags: Book, Farrah Fawcett, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Cornell University, Arts and Culture
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Does a bipolar state of mind encourage creative genius?
Jonah Lehrer is the Los Angeles guy who writes about brains, and he has them aplenty too. He wonders how our noggins make us individually distinct, and yet how the basic factory model means that so many of our brains are wired the same. In books such...
Tags: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Behavioral Conditions, Depression, Lithium (drug)
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Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin
An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...Tags: Biology, Poetry, Nature, Radio, Science
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The Virginia Quarterly Review, part 1: A suicide rocks the esteemed literary journal
Jacket CopyOn July 30, Kevin Morrissey printed a note, gathered his identification and called the Charlottesville, Va., police to report a shooting at the coal tower, a local landmark. When they arrived, it was Morrissey they found dead of a self-inflicted...... -
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, Internists, Periodicals, Kenneth Rexroth, Poetry
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Rediscoveries: 'The Tree' by John Fowles
Special to the Los Angeles TimesRe-Discoveries An occasional look at classic reissues… The Tree by John Fowles with a new introduction by Barry Lopez (Ecco: 94 pp., $13.99 paper) "The key to my fiction," wrote Fowles in 1979 when this essay was first published, "lies in my...Tags: Wildlife, Landforms, John Fowles, Mountains, Family
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W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate
Los Angeles TimesReporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...Tags: Poetry, Pulitzer Prize Awards, James Wright, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), France
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'Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories' by Caroline Blackwood
Never Breathe a Word
The Collected Stories
Caroline Blackwood
Counterpoint: 366 pp., $26
It is clear that we read for pleasure; what is less obvious are the varieties of pleasures we experience. Pleasing isn't always pleasant. Take Caroline Blackwood'...Tags: Heart Attack, Documentary (genre), Death, Social Issues, Lucian Freud
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W.D. Snodgrass dies at 83; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, teacher
Associated PressW.D. Snodgrass, the prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had a nearly 40-year teaching career, has died in upstate New York. He was 83. His family said he died Tuesday at his home in Erieville, N.Y., just east of Syracuse, after a four-month...Tags: Death, Career and Workplace, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Old Dominion University
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'Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963' by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff
Reborn Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963 Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 318 pp., $25 In September 2006, an excerpt of Susan Sontag's diaries, edited by her son, David Rieff, was published in the New York Times magazine,...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Death, University of California, Berkeley, Elizabeth Bishop, Newspaper and Magazine
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'Poems: 1959-2009' by Frederick Seidel
Poems 1959-2009 Frederick Seidel Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 510 pp., $40 In September 1968, a wide-ranging New York Times lifestyle piece headlined "Central Park's New Era: Fun for Everyone" took the measure of several New Yorkers, including a college...Tags: Death, Poetry, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Cancer
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'The Lincoln Anthology' edited by Harold Holzer, 'The Best American History Essays on Lincoln' edited by Sean Wilentz, Ronald C. White's biography 'A. Lincoln' and others
It was Tuesday, May 30, 1922, the day of the dedication of the solemn and splendid memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and the ceremony on the Mall featured speeches by President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
The most...Tags: Mark Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, History, Defense, Literature
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