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Paul Fussell dies at 88; social historian and critic
For social historian and critic Paul Fussell, the most enduring moments of truth came as a 20-year-old platoon leader in France during World War II. German shrapnel tore up his back and thigh. The blood and guts of fellow soldiers were spewed on him....
Tags: Reviews, Connecticut College, Literature, Rutgers University, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Is that a poem in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?
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Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
Authors in L.A.: Parenting lessons from Anne Lamott and more
Jacket CopyAnne Lamott visits L.A. this week to discuss "Some Assembly Required," in which she shares parenting insights as she watches her son adjust to fatherhood.... -
Theater review: 'Lincoln: An American Story' at Pasadena Playhouse
Culture MonsterCharlotte Stoudt reviews "Lincoln," Hershey Felder's one-man show with full orchestra at the Pasadena Playhouse.... -
Authors this week in L.A.: A Walt Whitman reading and more
Jacket CopyThis week's list of author activities in L.A. includes a poetry reading of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" to kick off the start of National Poetry Month.... -
Book review: 'A Rake's Progress,' a biography of David Hockney
David Hockney A Rake's Progress The Biography, 1937-1975 Christopher Simon Sykes Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 384 pp., $35 With the deaths last year of Lucian Freud and Richard Hamilton, David Hockney suddenly catapulted into position as England's...
Tags: United Kingdom, Fine Artists, Long Island, Artists, Christopher Isherwood
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Hershey Felder's new musical play will dramatize Lincoln's death
Culture MonsterHershey Felder will premiere "Lincoln -- An American Story for Actor and Symphony Orchestra," at the Pasadena Playhouse. It's the actor-pianist-composer's first musical that departs from the solo format of his previous plays about George Gershwin, Leonard... -
Ken Graydon dies at 77; poet and storyteller
For Ken Graydon, repairing cars was a living.
But writing poetry and song lyrics and tall tales to be told and sung around a campfire was his passion.
For anyone who thinks of poets as smallish, shy, intellectual fellows who look inward, Graydon was a...Tags: Poetry, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hands, Health, Human Interest
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Bookmarks: 'American Veda' by Philip Goldberg
Los Angeles TimesLong before the Fab Four embraced the East, there were the Fab Three — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Philip Goldberg's "American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation — How Indian Spirituality...Tags: Happiness (state of mind), Yoga, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Buddhism, Christianity
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Culture Watch: 'The Pulitzer Project'
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews a new recording of Pulitzer Prize winning scores from the 1940s.... -
Wynton Marsalis swings for the fences
Wynton Marsalis is explaining jazz to me by talking about my boots. He is coming to Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend to play his ambitious new composition, "Swing Symphony," with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But before we get into musical details,...Tags: Time Warner Inc., Kansas (music group), George Gershwin, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Carnegie Hall
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