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Q+LA Julian Fellowes
LA Times MagazineThe reigning monarch of England’s storied past tells tales on his beloved Downton Abbey... -
Book review: 'The Affair' by Lee Child
Tribune NewspapersI used to have a rural fantasy. Then I started reading the Jack Reacher novels. True, plane rides are now less painful thanks to Lee Child's rough-and-tough hero, a former U.S. Army MP — but I'll never again be able to drive along the lonelier...Tags: Television, Tom Cruise, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment, Crimes
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Emmys 2011: 'Downton Abbey' wins for miniseries / TV movie
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The Sunday Conversation: Julian Fellowes
British film hyphenate Julian Fellowes, 61, who won an original screenplay Oscar for "Gosford Park," returns to early 20th century England for the script of his latest TV drama, "Downton Abbey." The four-episode series about life on a great country...Tags: Technology, Television, Labour Party (UK), Conservative Party (UK), Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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Book review: 'Venice: Pure City' by Peter Ackroyd
Los Angeles TimesThe works of man are many and wondrous, but if I had to pick one that most completely embodies the concept of the sublime, it probably would be the autumnal view from the terrace of Venice's Gritti Palace, across the Grand Canal, to the great church of...Tags: Human Interest, Peter Ackroyd, Building Material, John Ruskin, Metal and Mineral
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Oxford lite
OXFORD, England -- Cue the college choir. Roll the "Brideshead Revisited" footage. Lay out the strawberries and clotted cream. And let me begin by saying, ahem, that it's a rich experience, reflecting upon one's days at Oxford. The morning sun through...Tags: Bill Clinton, Global Expansion, Lawyers, Architecture, History
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Amazon content coup? E-tailer gets exclusive Roth, Mailer, Nabokov and Updike backlist
Jacket CopyAmazon.com now has exclusive rights to sell the e-book versions of some of the best-known titles from top literary authors Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and more. In an announcement late Wednesday -- shortly after midnight... -
'Oxford Revisited' by Justin Cartwright
Oxford Revisited Justin Cartwright Bloomsbury: 222 pp., $18 Travel writing is a category filled with subsets and divisions, but there are two principal modes. The first is that of discovery -- a voyager sets out to find a place that he or she has never...Tags: Health and Safety at School, W.H. Auden, Africa, Education, Social Sciences
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British writer created Rumpole
John Mortimer, a British lawyer and writer who created the character Horace Rumpole, a disheveled barrister memorably featured in the popular television series "Rumpole of the Bailey," died Friday at his home in Oxfordshire, England. He was 85. The cause...Tags: Television, Graham Greene, Crime, Law and Justice, Laurence Olivier, D.H. Lawrence
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'The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War' by David Lebedoff
Special to The TimesIN "The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War," David Lebedoff has pulled off a literary feat. It isn't possible to find two 20th century literary peers who, at first glance, seem more different in ambition, temperament and subject...Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Yogi Berra, Biography (genre), Death, England
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'A Voyage Round John Mortimer' by Valerie Grove
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJune 25, 2008 Emotionally, William Butler Yeats was a 19th century man, and so his famous dictum that the creative soul must seek "perfection in the life or in the work" once seemed not only practical but also wise. What would the arch-poet have made,...Tags: Television, Pumpkin, John Osborne, Adultery, Harold Pinter
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Why we read
There's a book I don't remember well, though I can remember precisely where I found it in my elementary school library -- three yards to the right of the door, in the middle of the third shelf from the floor.
I was, and remain, a compulsive reader. Back...Tags: Anne Tyler, Newspaper and Magazine, Petroleum Industry, Newspapers, Charles Dickens
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