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Book calendar: Author events for the week of September 12, 2010
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY William Gibson: The author will read and sign his new novel, "Zero History." Book Soup 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Noon. Free. (310) 659-3110. William Gibson: The author will read and...Tags: Top Chef (tv program), Anglicanism, University of California, Irvine, Euclid, Awards and Prizes
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Michael Foot dies at 96; last of the British Labor Party's socialist leaders
Associated PressMichael Foot, a bookish intellectual and anti-nuclear campaigner who led Britain's Labor Party to a disastrous defeat in 1983, died Wednesday, officials said. He was 96. Foot died peacefully at his home in north London following a long illness, historian...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Parliament, Parties and Movements, Tony Blair, Nuclear Weapons
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Comin' at ya! Book reviews on an iconic boxer, freakonomics, Frankenstein [updated]
Jacket CopyIn our pages this week, Tim Rutten reviewed "Sweet Thunder" by Will Heygood, a biography of boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. Robinson is "now universally acknowledged as the greatest prizefighter who ever lived," Rutten writes: Anyone who ever saw him in...... -
Lord Byron letters sell for a record $459,000
Jacket CopyToday in London, a collection of letters from British poet Lord George Byron sold at auction for $459,110.67, exceeding the highest pre-sale estimates by more than $160,000 and selling for more than any other letters or manuscript by a British...... -
'The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein' by Peter Ackroyd
First, a confession: I am Victor Frankenstein. Not the Victor Frankenstein, of course, who was, after all, not a real person but a literary invention from the mind of Mary Shelley. As the godmother of Gothic horror, Shelley conjured a scientist who...Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Romanticism (genre), Entertainment, Movies, Monsters (legendary creatures)
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Hot and dead: Literary vampires before 'Twilight'
Jacket Copy(For the record: This post first appeared with an illustration of an earlier version of the book cover.) Vampire stories didnât begin with Stephenie Meyerâs âTwilightâ series, Anne Riceâs bayou bloodsuckers or even Bram Stokerâs âDraculaâ... -
Music review: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Culture MonsterItâs tempting to call conductor Vasily Petrenko âthe tall Russian dude.â At 33, heâs four years older than Gustavo Dudamel, who turned 29 last week, but he shares a similarly vital, elemental approach to music. In his astonishing Walt Disney...... -
Before there was Dr. Atkins, there was Jean Brillat-Savarin
Booster ShotsIf you thought low-carb diets were a relatively recent fad, check out âThe Physiology of Tasteâ by Jean Brillat-Savarin. The French lawyer, who also studied chemistry and medicine, was the first to extol the virtues of consuming fewer carbohydrates... -
Deep, Dark Secrets of His and Her Brains
Times Staff WriterHAMILTON, Canada — The invitation curled from her fax machine, a courtly question scrawled above the signature of a man whose name she did not recognize. "Would you be willing to collaborate with me on studying the brain of Albert Einstein?" It...Tags: Biology, Brown University, Synthetics and Plastics, Galileo Galilei, University of California, Irvine
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A Primeval Tide of Toxins
Times Staff WriterThe fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. When fishermen touched it, their skin broke out in searing welts. Their lips blistered and peeled. Their eyes...Tags: Skin Rash, World War II (1939-1945), Rivers, Farms, Japan
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Same game, different rules
Twenty years ago, Ballantine Books decided it no longer wanted to publish paperbacks exclusively, as it had done for the previous 35 years. Bucking convention, the firm launched its hardcover program with a first novel by an untested female writer that...Tags: Gaming, Entertainment, Bobby Fischer, Dan Brown , New Year's Day
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Turkish pride and The Times
We've had plenty of cause for celebration lately that we are not bound by Article 301 of the Turkish penal code (which specifies a six-month-to-three year prison sentence for insulting "being a Turk, the Republic or Turkish Grand National Assembly") or...Tags: Civil Unrest, Germany, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration, United Kingdom
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