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Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist
Jacket CopyMichael Chabon's choice of the independent Open Road Media for e-book editions of Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys includes a frank -- if not comprehensive -- discussion of royalty rates for authors.... -
This week in L.A.: Times Book Prizes, festival highlight active week
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Five summers, memorable for the reading
Times Book Critic1974: Unhappy at summer camp, I holed up in my bunk and read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural." The camp might have been awful, but the books were anything but. 1980: In June, I attended a writers conference at UC...Tags: Joan Didion, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, University of California, Berkeley
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Critic's Notebook: In Discover Mode
Times Book CriticFor me, summer reading has always been about freedom. Not the freedom to dumb down with mindless entertainment but the freedom to wise up, to be ambitious, to pursue the passions that, during the rest of the year, often take a backseat to the...Tags: Bernard Malamud, Human Interest, Health, Philip Roth, University of Chicago
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'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor,' by Brad Gooch
Flannery
A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Brad Gooch
Little, Brown: 416 pp., $30
Brad Gooch opens "Flannery," his biography of Flannery O'Connor, with a lost moment: an account of how when O'Connor was 5, the Pathe newsreel company sent a cameraman to...Tags: Death, Literature, Arts and Culture, Health and Safety at School, Biography (genre)
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For Word-Herder Larry McMurtry, Novel Is Like a Trail Drive
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor a writer whose novels are often set under big Western skies and populated with ranchers and gunslingers, Larry McMurtry is strikingly bookish. Here is a man who, any day, would rather be nosing through dusty volumes than kicking sod on the prairie....Tags: Journalism, Danny Glover, Tuberculosis, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment
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Old man in a bar, or: A meditation against entropy
Paul GreenbergThe old man in a rumpled linen suit at the end of the bar stood out like a weed at a garden show. All around him the young couples and swinging singles, so impressionable and so eager to impress, went on laughing and talking about whatever they laugh...Tags: Environmental Issues, Energy Resources, Solyndra LLC, Adam Smith, Religion and Belief
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Traditions choose us
In the musical Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye claims that the lives of those in his town of Anatevka are precarious, like the life of a fiddler on a roof. What helps them keep their balance? Tradition! Tevye explains some of his people's traditions, those...Tags: Arts and Culture, Christmas, Customs and Tradition, G.K. Chesterton, Religion and Belief
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Michael Lewis puts faces on business stories
Tribune NewspapersGrowing up in New Orleans, writer Michael Lewis learned three lessons that stuck with him for life: Success and happiness are very different things. Never become a lawyer. You don't need to come from a bookish environment to know how to spin a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Journalism, Religion and Belief, Family, Justice System
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Loyola to screen film on Walker Percy
ABC26 NewsThe life and work of a much-honored Louisiana author is the subject of a documentary that will be screened later this month at Loyola University of New Orleans. New Orleans native Win Riley's full length documentary entitled "Walker Percy: A...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Human Interest, New Orleans, Documentary (genre), WGNO
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Merits of abortion worth national discussion
Dr. Kermit Gosnell of Philadelphia is charged with the murder of eight, one woman and seven babies, in criminally negligent attempts at late-term abortions. Gosnell is accused of delivering the seven babies alive and then snipping their spinal cords...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Colleges and Universities, Social Issues, Human Interest
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Loyola launching Walker Percy center
ABC26 NewsLoyola University in New Orleans has created a new center named after a major Louisiana literary figure. Loyola will launch the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing on Wednesday, March 10. The university says in a news release that its...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Health and Safety at School, New Orleans, Services and Shopping, Education
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