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Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street
Jacket CopyBarbara Demick says that" real Sarajevans don’t like to talk about the war," but her book, "Logavina Street," follows the lives of a small community during the conflict. It has been re-released, with additional materials, commemorating the 20th... -
Introducing Los Angeles to itself
To write about this city is in some essential way to create it. Not in cement and steel, but in the imagination of its citizens, as well as in the minds of people who will never come here but who nevertheless carry an image of it in their heads. An...
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Companies and Corporations, D.H. Lawrence, Greenwich Village
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National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for 2011 awards
Jacket CopyThe National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its 2011 book awards at a public ceremony on Saturday in New York City. Two Southern California writers are among those up for the awards, which will be presented on March...... -
Handicapping the Nobel Prize in literature: a guide
Jacket CopyWho is Assia Djebar and why is she considered among the top contenders for the Nobel Prize in literature? This handy guide can help.... -
‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’ recap: Photo negatives
Show Tracker"The Real Housewives of New Jersey": With the last episode of the third season of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," I wonder where the show itself will go in everyone's family album.... -
Art review: 'Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective' at UCLA Hammer Museum
Culture MonsterIn the New York art world, Paul Thek has been a cult figure for about as many years as he was a practicing artist. Susan Sontag dedicated her influential 1966 book of collected criticism, "Against Interpretation," to him, and it's...... -
Book Review: 'Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag' by Sigrid Nunez
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSempre Susan A Memoir of Susan Sontag Sigrid Nunez Atlas & Co.: 140 pp., $20 When novelist Sigrid Nunez accepted a part-time job helping Susan Sontag cope with correspondence that had built up during her first bout with cancer, she thought that she'...Tags: Book
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Christopher Hitchens on Osama bin Laden
Jacket CopyChristopher Hitchens has published an essay on Osama bin Ladne, "The Enemy." with Amazon as a Kindle Single.... -
Book Review: 'Otherwise Known as the Human Condition' by Geoff Dyer
Los Angeles Times Book CriticOtherwise Known as the Human Condition Selected Essays and Reviews Geoff Dyer Graywolf: 422 pp., $18 paper "Almost as soon as I began writing for magazines and newspapers," Geoff Dyer tells us in the introduction to "Otherwise Known as the Human...Tags: Crimes, John Cheever, D.H. Lawrence, Duke Ellington, Literature
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Book review: 'I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections' by Nora Ephron
Los Angeles TimesI Remember Nothing and Other Reflections Nora Ephron Alfred A. Knopf: 142 pp., $22.95 It's good to be Nora Ephron. When you're Nora Ephron, you can get Meryl Streep, who once played a fictionalized version of you, to star as Julia Child in your...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Julia Child, Restaurants, Physical Therapists, Scrabble (game)
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Writers and editors
Writers and editors George MacDonald Fraser, 82; author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure novels (Jan. 2) Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; editor of the New Republic, helped launch new talent (Jan. 3) Philip Agee, 72; former CIA official wrote...Tags: Studs Terkel, Jackie Robinson, Cults and Sects, Mystery (genre), Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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