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Price meets Poe in Los Angeles
Jacket CopyThree Vincent Price films based on work by Edgar Allen Poe will screen in LA, for free, just in time for Halloween.... -
Aldous Huxley's psychedelic Los Angeles life
Jacket CopyAuthor Aldous Huxley, a bracing intellectual, took LSD and mescaline a decade before they became popularized, influencing a future subculture.... -
The creepy Nathaniel Hawthorne story Edgar Allan Poe loved
Jacket CopyEdgar Allen Poe grudgingly but effusively praised a creepy story by Nathaniel Hawthorne; it's a free download this week from Library of America.... -
The Reading Life: Last exit from Brooklyn
Jacket CopyJames Mason's "Positively No Dancing" is a small book that's worth your attention, writes book critic David L. Ulin.... -
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Playwright Naomi Iizuka's Seattle opening will complete an unusual West Coast tour
Culture MonsterNaomi Iizuka's latest play, "The Scarlet Letter," is an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel about an adulterous love that brings scorn on its heroine in the Puritan world of 1600s Boston. When it opens Oct. 29 at the Intiman...... -
School reading: Jay Varner on the 'insufferable' 'Ethan Frome'
Jacket CopyWhen Jay Varner graduated from college, he returned to his hometown in Pennsylvania and took a job at the local paper covering local news, including police and fire reports. That's where his first book, the memoir "Nothing Left to Burn,"...... -
TV This Week for May 8th – 14th
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of May 8 - 14 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 8 - 14 in PDF format (from latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv) Weekly TV Listings and more can be found...... -
Alvin Lawson dies at 80; UFO researcher questioned beliefs of alleged abductees
Alvin Lawson, an English professor at Cal State Long Beach who spent decades studying unidentified flying objects and questioning the beliefs of people who said they had been abducted, has died. He was 80.
Lawson died Sept. 8 at Western Medical Center in...Tags: Unexplained Phenomena, Crimes, Korean War (1950-1953), UFO Sightings, University of California, Berkeley
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Daniel Catán dies at 62; opera composer and librettist
Daniel Catán, an opera composer and librettist whose works including "Il Postino" and "Florencia en el Amazonas" have been praised for their lyrical romanticism and humane generosity of spirit, died suddenly Saturday in Austin, Texas. He was 62.
Catán'...Tags: Pablo Neruda, Placido Domingo, Alban Berg, Milton Babbitt, Maurice Joseph Ravel
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Book review: 'The Passages of H.M.'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Passages of H.M. A Novel of Herman Melville Jay Parini Doubleday: 454 pp., $26.95 "The time for me hasn't come yet: Some men are born posthumously," Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo." It's a statement that might have provided comfort to Herman...Tags: The Last Station (movie), Herman Melville, Literature, Melville, Charles Dickens
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'American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House' by John Meacham
American Lion
Andrew Jackson
in the White House
Jon Meacham
Random House: 488 pp., $30
This engaging new book about Andrew Jackson, our first up-from-nowhere president, takes its place on a crowded shelf in the library of national leadership. Jackson...Tags: Politics, Rivers, Science and Technology, Walt Whitman, Science
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