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On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history
Jacket CopyIn 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.... -
For Alain Mabanckou, breakthrough translates well
In a UCLA classroom one day not long ago, Alain Mabanckou was teaching a course in post-colonial African fiction, which he instructs in his French mother tongue, one of several languages he speaks. With his easygoing yet focused manner, soccer player's...
Tags: Endangered Species, Conservation, University of Michigan, Marcel Proust, Natural Resources
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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: Censorship, U.S. Army, D.H. Lawrence, Companies and Corporations, NPR
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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: D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Cancer, U.S. Postal Service, Samuel Beckett
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Five summers, memorable for the reading
Times Book Critic1974: Unhappy at summer camp, I holed up in my bunk and read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural." The camp might have been awful, but the books were anything but. 1980: In June, I attended a writers conference at UC...Tags: Henry Miller, Walker Percy, Philip Roth, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Albert Camus
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A moment with Nina Ricci designer Peter Copping
All The RageAlthough several designers have tried to forge a modern identity for Nina Ricci over the last decade, the French fashion house is still better known for the iconic fragrance L'Air Du Temps (launched in 1948 in the Lalique bottle with...... -
Fashion Diary: Peter Copping on his Nina Ricci collection
Los Angeles Times fashion criticAlthough several designers have tried to forge a modern identity for Nina Ricci over the last decade, the French fashion house is still better known for the iconic fragrance L'Air Du Temps (launched in 1948 in the Lalique bottle with glass doves) than for...Tags: Nicole Kidman, Barney's New York Incorporated, Fashion Shows, Keira Knightley, New Products
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Book review: 'Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford' by Leslie Brody
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn their time, the daughters of the second Baron Redesdale, better known as the Mitford sisters, were an industry. Their trade, for the most part, was their mere existence — swanning about British society, leaving scandal and newsprint in their...Tags: Politics, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Winston Churchill, Maya Angelou, Communist Party
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Joseph Strick dies at 86; independent filmmaker brought 'Ulysses' to big screen
Joseph Strick, an independent filmmaker who brought James Joyce's "Ulysses" to the big screen and won an Academy Award for best documentary short subject for "Interviews with My Lai Veterans," has died. He was 86.
Strick died of congestive heart...Tags: Photography, Science and Technology, Defense, Film Festivals, Movies
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20 classic works of gay literature
Jacket CopyToday U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker struck down Proposition 8, ruling that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. Proposition 8 was a 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in California. Both sides had said...... -
Literary luminaries drop in on Tribune writer as tear gas wafts through streets
When the doorbell rang one August evening in 1968, my inclination was not to answer. The Democratic National Convention was raging, and I had a window seat. My then-wife and I lived across from Lincoln Park, the peaceniks' campground. Previously, a...
Tags: Peter Lorre, Arts and Culture
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'Camino Real' through the eyes of Spanish director Calixto Bieito
Late Sunday night, there was a radiant light in the face of the Chicago actress Carolyn Hoerdemann. "This all reminds me of the early days of the European Rep," she said, ebulliently, referencing one of Chicago's most influential avant-garde troupes of...Tags: Goodman Theatre, Europe, Lord Byron, Poetry, Chicago Skyline
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