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    Apr 27, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. 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....
    2. Apr 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. 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.
    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

    3. Feb 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 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 New York City. He was 89.
    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

    4. Feb 25, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. An appreciation: Barney Rosset, contemporary literature's champion

    Barney Rosset, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, was the most important American publisher of the 20th century.
    Los Angeles Times Book Critic
    Barney 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

    5. May 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Five summers, memorable for the reading

    Times Book Critic
    1974: 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

    6. Nov 5, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  6. A moment with Nina Ricci designer Peter Copping

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    Although 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......
    7. Nov 14, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Fashion Diary: Peter Copping on his Nina Ricci collection

    Although 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 clothes.
    Los Angeles Times fashion critic
    Although 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

    8. Dec 15, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Book review: 'Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford' by Leslie Brody

    In 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 &#8212; swanning about British society, leaving scandal and newsprint in their wake. Nancy wrote deliciously acidic novels and gossipy history. (Evelyn Waugh dedicated &quot;The Loved One" to her.) Diana and Unity were avowed fascists. Adolf Hitler was a witness at Diana's wedding to Oswald Mosely, and Unity was so besotted with the <i>F&#252;hrer</i> and chagrined when Britain declared war on Germany that she tried to kill herself. Deborah and Pamela were more reserved, but the tabloids avidly detailed all the sisters' fashions, marriages, politics and real estate.
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    In 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

    9. Jun 4, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Joseph Strick dies at 86; independent filmmaker brought 'Ulysses' to big screen

    Joseph Strick, an independent filmmaker who brought James Joyce's &quot;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.
    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

    10. Aug 4, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  10. 20 classic works of gay literature

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    Today 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......
    11. Apr 29, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. 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 bunch of cops had burst into our front hall and slugged a freelance photographer who was bunking in with a neighbor before he could out get the door.
    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

    12. Mar 9, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. '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. &quot;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 the 1990s, and sweeping her hand around a barroom that included several bottles of wine and such game-for-anything Chicago actors as Mark Montgomery, Barbara Robertson and Ron Rains, out together for the evening with Catalan opera and theater 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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