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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
Book review: 'The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens'
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens Edited by Jenny Hartley Oxford University Press: 458 pp., $34.95 This is the bicentennial year of Charles Dickens' birth. We need no reminder of his eminence as novelist, but there are celebrations of his other...
Tags: Hans Christian Andersen, John Forster, Authors, Book, Genres
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2 shot in apparent assault-rifle attack in Cypress Park
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The Bracebridge Dinner in Yosemite
Daily DishThe Bracebridge Dinner at Yosemite National Park is set for Dec. 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 25. Dinner-only tickets are $425 per person.... -
School named for Sandra Cisneros to open in Echo Park
Jacket CopyLots of presidents and neighborhoods lend their names to schools in Los Angeles, but authors, not so much.... -
Wicked Lit: Eternal resting plays
Brand XOld graveyards are eerie enough in the daylight, but this Halloween season, Altadena's Mountain View Mortuary & Cemetery is ratcheting up the fear factor with a vengeful premature burial, a spectral beast from the edge of time and a nest of ghostly... -
'Wild Child: And Other Stories' by T.C. Boyle
Wild Child
And Other Stories
T. C. Boyle
Viking: 320 pp., $25.95
In "Thirteen Hundred Rats," one of the 14 stories in the latest collection from the seemingly inexhaustible T.C. Boyle, a recent widower finds himself the owner of a python. He's...Tags: Disasters, Book, Juvenile Delinquency, Family, Animals
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Astral Weeks: 'Another conversation bleeds into yours'
While assembling my notes for a review of the Library of America anthology "American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny" (Library of America, two volumes, edited by Peter Straub: "From Poe to the Pulps," 746 pp., $35; "From the 1940s to Now," 714 pp....Tags: Tennessee Williams, Entertainment, Vladimir Nabokov, Real Estate Agents, Fiction
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Book review: 'Fur, Fortune, and Empire'
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
Eric Jay Dolin
W.W. Norton, 444 pp., $29.95
In "Company of Adventurers," the first of a three-part history of the Hudson's Bay Co., Peter C. Newman wrote: "Seldom has an animal...Tags: Bronx (New York City), England, Armed Forces, Henry Hudson, Arts and Culture
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Follow the links to spooky Halloween sites
We're in the Halloween spirit, so we took a look at some websites, such as www.haunted-places.com and www.headlesshorseman.co.uk, that help travelers tune in to ghostly -- or ghastly -- fun. What's hot: Haunted Places has lists and some tales of spooky...Tags: Fiction, Halloween
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What's in a name? Clues to a city's past
Times Staff WriterEvery city has a story to tell — and in Los Angeles County, that means 88 of them. Los Angeles incorporated in 1850, becoming the first city in the county. The most recent was Calabasas, incorporated in 1991. Many cities were carved out of...Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Family, Boston, Death, Florida State Seminoles
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Bring your latte and join us in the 'hood
In response to Matthew DeBord's Nov. Nov. 16 Op-Ed article on moving to Glassell Park, "The gang’s all here,” I'd like to say to him: Yes! The gang is all here! So far, DeBord and his family have had the luxury, but perhaps lonely experience,...Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Politics, Activism, Eric Garcetti, Crime, Law and Justice
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