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    Mar 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. A visit to London's cemeteries

    LONDON — What are the first sights you seek when you travel to a new city? The museums? The top restaurants? Or the cemeteries? I choose cemeteries. Although some people think that's weird, I find them a through-the-looking-glass way of understanding a place and how it grew. They are fascinating, beautiful, a bit mysterious but rarely ghoulish or spooky.
    LONDON — What are the first sights you seek when you travel to a new city? The museums? The top restaurants? Or the cemeteries? I choose cemeteries. Although some people think that's weird, I find them a through-the-looking-glass way of...

    Tags: John Jackson, Architecture, Arts and Culture, England, Adultery

    2. Apr 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance

    <strong>Farther Away</strong>
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    -------------------- Farther Away Essays Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 322 pp., $26 -------------------- I didn't much like Jonathan Franzen's essay "Farther Away" when I read it a year ago in the New Yorker. A complicated mishmash of a...

    Tags: David Foster Wallace, William Trevor, Alice Munro, Authors, Arts and Culture

    3. Apr 27, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  3. On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history

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    In Sunday books: a talk with UCLA author Alain Mabanckou, plus reviews of the latest by Jonathan Franzen, lumber as history and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and diaries....
    4. Dec 4, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Tablets: Downloadable classic books are in abundance

    Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as public domain, you can build a library, as I have, with a variety of classic literature, gratis: Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography," Kate Chopin's "The Awakening." It's enough to make you believe in the free flow of ideas.
    Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as...

    Tags: Sherwood Anderson, Herman Melville, Arts and Culture, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Fielding

    5. Nov 22, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'Memoir' by Ben Yagoda

    Memoir
    Memoir A History Ben Yagoda Riverhead: 292 pp., $25.95 In 2006, when James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" was exposed as a fraud, the news was met with the self-righteousness and scorn typically reserved for Ponzi schemers. Ever since, Frey's name...

    Tags: James Baldwin, Arts and Culture, The Holocaust (1934-1945), James Frey, Gertrude Stein

    6. Jun 22, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson

    Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a prizefighter, had some small success as a musician and, when the Great Depression of the 1930s hit, roamed the roads and rails, learning the life of the hobo. This crucial experience led to fiction, and to his first novel, "Hungry Men" (University of Oklahoma Press, currently out of print, but with plenty of copies available on Amazon), which in 1933 caused the Saturday Review of Literature to pronounce him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner.
    Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...

    Tags: University of Oxford, Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, Entertainment, W.H. Auden

    7. Feb 16, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. An outsider splurges his way through L.A.

    Chris Ayres' "Death by Leisure" is a memoir of financial foolishness.
    Chris Ayres' "Death by Leisure" is a memoir of financial foolishness. It is also, sadly, an obituary for our late, great city of Los Angeles. Felled by the burst of a real estate bubble, a victim of mass greed and self-delusion, it is mourned, alas,...

    Tags: Television, Martin Amis, Movies, Entertainment, Walt Disney

    8. Jun 15, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Adrift in a sea of fiction

    Times Staff Writer
    The best-known castaways — Tom Hanks and his volleyball, for example, and Robinson Crusoe — come from the world of make-believe. One way to tolerate the idea of enduring years without human contact, apparently, is to fictionalize it. Daniel...

    Tags: Tom Hanks

    9. Jan 28, 2011 |Story| Petoskey News

  9. Accountants: Few changes for tax filers this season

    A centuries-old proverb -- stated by writers such as Daniel Defoe and Benjamin Franklin -- observes that taxes are as much a certainty in life as death.
    A centuries-old proverb -- stated by writers such as Daniel Defoe and Benjamin Franklin -- observes that taxes are as much a certainty in life as death. And just as predictably, the January-to-April time frame is a period when millions of Americans...

    Tags: Credit and Debt, Vehicles, Homes, Tax Credits, Personal Income

    10. Nov 16, 2010 |Story| Glendale News Press

  10. Traditional art by today's fine international masters

    The characteristic that renders Silvana Ambar so impressive as a curator is her ability to attract internationally known artists who are either trained in the finest art academies in the world, or who have demonstrated such self-taught skill that they are credible to "show" with the pantheon of international artists whose work she has assembled.
    The characteristic that renders Silvana Ambar so impressive as a curator is her ability to attract internationally known artists who are either trained in the finest art academies in the world, or who have demonstrated such self-taught skill that they are...

    Tags: Arts, Charles Dickens, Music, Arts and Culture, Painting

    11. Apr 24, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    Tags: Chile, Santiago (Chile), Pablo Neruda

    12. May 22, 2008 |Story| Zap2It

  12. Sam Neill Stranded with 'Crusoe'

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    Sam Neill, who recently starred in Showtime's "The Tudors," will take on another period piece in his next TV gig. Neill, along with Sean Bean ("The Lord of the Rings") and Joss Ackland ("White Mischief"), have joined the cast of NBC's drama "Crusoe," a...

    Tags: Television, Hellboy II: The Golden Army (movie), Sam Neill, Showtime (tv network), Crusoe (tv program)

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