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Laura Restrepo's new novel, 'Hot Sur,' faces immigration's perils
"Hot Sur" (Hot South), the just-published novel by Colombian author Laura Restrepo, carries a disturbing dedication: "A Javier, que pasa los días de su vida en una cárcel de Estados Unidos" -- To Javier, who spends the days of his life in a U.S. jail....
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'The Threads of the Heart' is a lyrical tapestry of magic and absurdity
In her swirling debut novel "The Threads of the Heart," the French writer Carole Martinez follows the turbulent life of Frasquita Carasco, a 19th century Spanish seamstress with mystical powers. The witty, dark and surreal novel is narrated by Soledad,...
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Living on the dark side
It would not, should not, matter a bit to Dennis Lehane that I am late getting around to his books. Without the benefit of my eyes and credit card, he has had a critically and financially successful career since publishing his first novel, “A...
Tags: Shutter Island (movie), Entertainment, Sean Penn, Academy Awards, Marcia Gay Harden
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Michael Henry Heim, UCLA scholar and translator, dies at 69
L.A. NOWMichael Henry Heim, a well regarded scholar of Slavic languages at UCLA known for his translations of works by Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann and Anton Chekhov, has died. He was 69. Heim died Saturday at his home in...... -
Ashbel Green dies at 84
Ashbel Green, 84, a respected editor at Alfred A. Knopf who persuaded Gabriel Garcia Marquez to switch publishers, worked on Walter Cronkite's memoir and a foreign policy book by President George H.W. Bushand helped discover the crime classic "The Friends...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Fiction, New York Observer, Book, Entertainment Events
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez unable to write, brother says
Jacket CopyAccording to his brother, Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is suffering from dementia and is no longer able to write.... -
2011-12 Tribune Scholar-Athlete Team: New Trier's Leland Later
Leland Later
New Trier
Cross-country, track
ACT: 33.
Athletics: 2011 Class 3A cross-country champion; 2012 3A 1,600-meter run state champion; three-time all-state in track.
Academics: 3.87 GPA.
College: California-Berkeley. I chose to attend because...Tags: Apple iPod, Human Accomplishments, Kanye West, Barack Obama, High School Sports
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Carlos Fuentes, 83, has died
Jacket CopyThe writer Carlos Fuentes has died in Mexico City at age 83. This week an interview was published in which he said he'd just finished a novel - and started a new one.... -
Tehran Book Fair versus the literature of Iran's streets
Jacket CopyThe Tehran Book Fair kicks off today, highlighting pressures between sanctioned and censored books in Iran.... -
Books may be kept out of Tehran fair -- but not off its streets
World NowTEHRAN -- As hundreds of thousands of bookworms converge on this capital, Iranian writers are pleading with the government to loosen its grip and allow a banned publisher into the Tehran International Book Fair. The 10-day book fair, which kicks off... -
This Sunday: John Leonard, AIDS and Carl Hiaasen, too
Jacket CopyJohn Leonard's collected essays, a book on genesis of the AIDS pandemic and another YA book by Carl Hiassen are all part of our Sunday coverage.... -
Shedding light on Laramie a decade later; Cast holds together 'Hermanas'
"The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later"
"Laramie is a community, not a project." That was the blunt assessment of an editorial in the Wyoming college town's paper on the 10th anniversary of the murder of Matthew Shepard. The young gay university...Tags: Russell Henderson, Aaron McKinney, AIDS, Murder, Arts and Culture
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