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    Dec 4, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Tablets: Downloadable classic books are in abundance

    Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as public domain, you can build a library, as I have, with a variety of classic literature, gratis: Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography," Kate Chopin's "The Awakening." It's enough to make you believe in the free flow of ideas.
    Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as...

    Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Defoe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Arts and Culture

    2. Jun 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Happy birthday, Marilyn Monroe

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    Happy 85th birthday, Marilyn Monroe, reader of Ulysses and Bertrand Russell....
    3. Mar 18, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Book review: 'At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing,' edited by George Kimball and John Schulian

    At the Fights
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    At the Fights American Writers on Boxing Edited by George Kimball & John Schulian Library of America: 517 pp., $35 Part freak show, part sitcom, part mortal combat — ah, yes, behold the world of professional prizefighting, the face-break...

    Tags: Book, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chicago Tribune, Damon Runyon, Jane Austen

    4. Nov 1, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Are Marilyn Monroe's musings worthwhile?

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    The much-photographed, much-filmed Marilyn Monroe has been dead since 1962. So does she have anything new to tell us? A little bit. "Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes and Letters by Marilyn Monroe" is just what it says it is, according to......
    5. Aug 2, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. For so-and-so, with love

    <i>"For Sherrell, Who's helped show me the way from my earliest recollections, and whose love and spirit -- abundant in every way -- are a large part of the life behind this book and the life in this book. My Love Always, Roy. Old Chatham, NY, 12/25/82."</i>
    "For Sherrell, Who's helped show me the way from my earliest recollections, and whose love and spirit -- abundant in every way -- are a large part of the life behind this book and the life in this book. My Love Always, Roy. Old Chatham, NY, 12/25/82." On...

    Tags: Twilight (book), Entertainment, Eudora Welty, Gaming, Muriel Rukeyser

    6. Apr 27, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Book of beasts

    <b>By Nick Owchar </b>
    By Nick Owchar Like many an excellent chronicler of village life, Lauren Groff gives us early in "The Monsters of Templeton" (Voice/Hyperion: 364 pp., $24.95) an ensemble view of the citizens of Templeton, a place very closely modeled on Cooperstown, N....

    Tags: Book, Neck, Stephen King, James Fenimore Cooper, Animals

    7. Sep 16, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 'Indignation' by Philip Roth

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    ONE OF THE ways to recognize truly great writers is that even their mistakes engage us. Philip Roth is our greatest living novelist, and his new book, "Indignation," is an irritating, puzzling and fascinating bundle of mistakes, miscalculations and self-...

    Tags: Lawyers, Philip Roth, Crime, Law and Justice, Family, Justice System

    8. Sep 14, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Philip Roth, on writing and being ticked off

    IN PERSON, 75-year-old Philip Roth seems anything but indignant. Seated on a couch in the inner sanctum of his agent's office, he is soft-spoken, prone to long, thoughtful pauses. Even his clothing -- khaki pants, brown shoes, an Oxford shirt with a light check -- is almost strikingly nondescript. Where, one wonders, is the fire-breathing ventriloquist of "Portnoy's Complaint" or the self-reflexive vaudevillian of the Zuckerman trilogy?
    IN PERSON, 75-year-old Philip Roth seems anything but indignant. Seated on a couch in the inner sanctum of his agent's office, he is soft-spoken, prone to long, thoughtful pauses. Even his clothing -- khaki pants, brown shoes, an Oxford shirt with a light...

    Tags: Entertainment, Herman Wouk, Jack Klugman, Fiction, September 11, 2001 Attacks

    9. May 24, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Will Facebook kill literature's 'leave the past behind' themes?

    Behind every American coming-of-age story stands a single passage, in which George Willard, Sherwood Anderson's alter-ego, sits in a carriage of the B&O railroad, waiting to leave Winesburg, Ohio:
    Behind every American coming-of-age story stands a single passage, in which George Willard, Sherwood Anderson's alter-ego, sits in a carriage of the B&O railroad, waiting to leave Winesburg, Ohio: The young man, going out of his town to meet the...

    Tags: Vehicles, Glencoe, Death, Armed Forces, Family

    10. Aug 3, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Mars in apogee

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Ray Bradbury is the first Los Angeles writer many people read. He's also the first reasonably serious writer -- someone concerned with political and moral themes -- many encounter. His early science-fiction novels and story collections have drawn readers,...

    Tags: Book, Genres, Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, Society

    11. Jul 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  11. Don't touch that NPR dial

    For a confederation of supposed liberals, public radio can be awfully conservative.
    For a confederation of supposed liberals, public radio can be awfully conservative. Ask someone to name a public radio show, any public radio show, and the chances are the answer will have been around during the Reagan administration: "A Prairie Home...

    Tags: Ira Glass, NPR, Media Industry, Services and Shopping, Computing and Information Technology Industry

    12. Jul 22, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. "So Long, See You Tomorrow" by William Maxwell

    A boy moves away from his small-town central Illinois home after his father murders a tenant farmer. Years later, an occasional childhood playmate ignores the boy in a high school corridor. Out of that awkward, wordless moment emerged "So Long, See You Tomorrow," William Maxwell's graceful swan of a novel.
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    A boy moves away from his small-town central Illinois home after his father murders a tenant farmer. Years later, an occasional childhood playmate ignores the boy in a high school corridor. Out of that awkward, wordless moment emerged "So Long, See You...

    Tags: Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Taylor, Eudora Welty, Human Interest, John Updike

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