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Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future
Jacket CopyEsquire returns to its roots with a new short fiction series while making it new, e-book style.... -
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: U.S. Army, Companies and Corporations, U.S. Supreme Court, Norman Mailer, Civil Rights
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An appreciation: Barney Rosset, contemporary literature's champion
Los Angeles Times Book CriticBarney Rosset, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, was the most important American publisher of the 20th century. Sure, he was part of a lineage; it's difficult to imagine Rosset doing what he did for more than 30 years at Grove Press without the...Tags: Book, U.S. Postal Service, Literature, Heroin, Henry Miller
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Happy birthday, Edward Gorey! And more book news
Jacket CopyBook news: Edward Gorey's fur coat, David Foster Wallace remembered, a rare Action Comics No. 1 discovered, Justin Bieber to publish photo book, and Stephen Colbert's satirically bad children's book is on the way.... -
Royal 'I dos' and more at Westminster Abbey
The bride was beautiful. The groom was a handsome prince. Two billion people around the world watched the wedding ceremony performed in April in Westminster Abbey.
I was one of them. Even though my London flat is around the corner from the abbey, my...Tags: England, Marriage, Christianity, Weddings, Animals
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Libraries walk a tightrope on porn
When a homeless man was accused of fondling himself in the Laguna Beach public library, the ensuing outcry was less about the alleged behavior than about the pornography the man was viewing on the Internet at the time.
Some people had never realized...Tags: Libraries, Politics, U.S. Supreme Court, Justice System, Justice System
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Ken Russell dies at 84; director of 'Tommy,' 'Lisztomania'
Ken Russell, the often controversial British director known for his flamboyant visual style in films such as "The Devils," "Altered States" and the Who's rock opera "Tommy," has died. He was 84.
Russell, who lived in Lymington in southern England, died...Tags: Pauline Kael, Franz Liszt, England, Biography (genre), Carol Reed
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Discoveries
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEast of the West A Country in Stories Miroslav Penkov Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 226 pp., $24 Miroslav Penkov hit American shores in 2001 (he was 21) from his native Bulgaria, and he hasn't stopped writing (or winning prizes for his wild, homesick...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Auguste Rodin, Gore Vidal, Entertainment, Television
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Go ahead and indulge — it's Taormina, Italy
Special to the Los Angeles TimesI am sitting on the balcony of the Grand Hotel Timeo eating almond-flavored granita (a kind of Italian sherbet) for breakfast and thinking about Lady Chatterley. More accurately, I am thinking about the real-life inspiration for Lady Chatterley —...Tags: England, Personal Service, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health, Movies
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The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon
Jacket CopyLots of great book titles with bacon! And if you've seen too many go by on Twitter lately, blame Carolyn Kellogg and Elissa Schappell.... -
'Maņana Forever?' by Jorge Castaņeda
Los Angeles TimesMaņana Forever Mexico and the Mexicans Jorge G. Castaņeda Alfred A. Knopf: 294 pp., $27.95 Mexicans, like their Spanish forebears, love to quote proverbs as a way of underscoring eternal truths and imparting folk wisdom to younger generations....Tags: Crimes, U.S. Army, International Court or Tribunal, Indigenous People, Mexico
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Michael Stern Hart dies at 64; e-book pioneer
Michael Stern Hart, a burly rebel whose vision of a literate society led him to pioneer the electronic book decades before the spread of the Internet, has died. He was 64.
The founder of the online library Project Gutenberg, Hart had been in poor...Tags: U.S. Army, Politics, Book, Henry Miller, Electronics
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