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Write a literary mash-up, get a laptop
Jacket CopyBoingBoing is giving away one free HP Envy laptop to the best literary mash-up posted on its site before Friday. Sure, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" kicked off the genre, but the blog's not asking for quite that -- the...... -
Living in fantasyland and the craft of capturing something magical on the page
Jacket CopyMonsters, mermaids and âdudes casting spellsâ were some of the elements that excited the authors at the âWriting the Fantasticâ panel at the Festival of Books on Saturday. Moderator Scott Timberg called the session that featured writers Aimee... -
Writers and editors
Writers and editors George MacDonald Fraser, 82; author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure novels (Jan. 2) Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; editor of the New Republic, helped launch new talent (Jan. 3) Philip Agee, 72; former CIA official wrote...Tags: Religious Conflicts, World War II (1939-1945), Jackie Robinson, Michael Crichton, Culture
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L.A.: Life that art can't imitate
So Reggie the alligator already has escaped once from his cell at the Los Angeles Zoo. Mark my words: No prison will hold him. He will escape again and steal a Ferrari Enzo. This is what makes writing wild fiction about Los Angeles so hard. L.A. just...Tags: Robert Towne, Wildlife, Los Angeles Police Department, Children, Crime, Law and Justice
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The king of anti-kidnapping
Colombia has its human rights problems, but in one respect it's a poster child for law-enforcement progress. Once the kidnapping capital of the world, Colombia claims to have slashed its snatching-for-profit business by 88% since President Alvaro Uribe...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Colombia, Human Rights, Civil Unrest, Family
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John Leonard dies at 69; erudite critic was early champion of Toni Morrison and other writers
The Associated PressLiterary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and so informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as "the smartest man who ever lived," has died. He...Tags: Reviews, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Barack Obama, Harvard University, Radio Industry
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The magic of Cartagena
Chicago Tribune Staff WriterIf it isn't the bright bougainvillea tumbling from the colonial balconies or the quiet shimmer of the Caribbean Sea, then maybe it's the impromptu dance parties in the town plazas, or the joyful din of guitars, bongos and maracas that drifts through the...Tags: Slavery, Drugs and Medicines, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Civil Unrest, Family
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Letters to the editor
Obama overseas Re "Obama defends greeting Chavez," April 20 I found the warmth obvious in President Obama's handshake and embrace of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to be offensive. Chavez is a petty tyrant who defies democratic norms and has called...Tags: Robert Gates, Career and Workplace, Transportation, Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez
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Los Angeles Times Names Book Prize Winners
LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2006 The Los Angeles Times presented its annual Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement and honored nine Book Prize winners during its 26th annual Book Prizes ceremony, April 28 at UCLA's Royce Hall. Joan Didion, renowned as...Tags: Slavery, Culture, Henri Matisse, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Connelly
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Joan Didion Named Winner of Los Angeles Times Kirsch Award
NEW YORK, March 10, 2006 Joan Didion has been named the winner of the 26th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. The award honors a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose...Tags: Culture, Henri Matisse, Michael Connelly, Entertainment, Abraham Lincoln
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John Adams tries to find the words
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen John Adams, the celebrated composer who is to his adopted California as Sibelius is to Finland, decided to write a memoir of his life and music, he realized there was virtually no model for his project. "Most composers," he said over lunch at an...Tags: Music Theater, John Coltrane, Opera (genre), Allen Ginsberg, Lou Harrison
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Mario Benedetti dies at 88; Uruguayan poet and writer
Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti, whose bestselling poems and novels helped launch Latin America's postwar literary boom, has died. He was 88. Benedetti died Sunday at his home in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital, of complications arising from a chronic...Tags: Mario Vargas Llosa, Politics, Argentina, Bogota (Colombia), Political Systems
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