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    Sep 4, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. New York City's spots for book lovers

    On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    On the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists. "On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...

    Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Renzo Piano, Fine Arts, Arts, Dorothy Parker

    2. Oct 14, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  2. A new bar taps L.A. literary history

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    The Writers Room opens Friday in a legendary writers drinking space in Hollywood....
    3. Sep 21, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Dorothy Parker and the Marriott circle [updated]

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    The Algonquin Hotel, famed as the 1920s martini-swilling location of choice for some of the era's great literary figures -- Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and "The New Yorker" founder Harold Ross -- has entered a partnership with the Marriott hotel......
    4. Dec 21, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. 29 literary films to fill your holidays [Updated]

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    A list of 29 top literary films, from 1982 to 2010....
    5. Feb 16, 2012 |Story| Daily Pilot

  5. Bookmark: Oh, the literary injustices

    You know the feeling. You're looking at the best-seller list and a title catches your eye. "What?!" you sputter. "That piece of (expletive deleted) is a hit, while (insert title of favorite obscure novel) is a flop? Ah, the injustice!" Life is not fair....

    Tags: Cole Porter, Entertainment Events, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, Thomas Gray

    6. Feb 26, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  6. 'Sweet' Musician Sue Terry Shows Literate Side

    Sue Terry, a master multi-instrumentalist, has been crafting well-turned, brightly burnished musical phrases for years, spinning soulful solos that tell stories in dramatic, flowing narrative lines. Fluent in the jazz lexicon, her expressive music recounts life's ups and downs, reflecting poetically on everything from tragedy to comedy, from agony to ecstasy.
    The Hartford Courant
    Sue Terry, a master multi-instrumentalist, has been crafting well-turned, brightly burnished musical phrases for years, spinning soulful solos that tell stories in dramatic, flowing narrative lines. Fluent in the jazz lexicon, her expressive music...

    Tags: Circuses, Apple iPad, Jane Austen, Dorothy Parker, Science and Technology

    7. Sep 12, 2011 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  7. No more basement paradise

    I'm sure you've heard people suggest there are two kinds of people in the world and then say something profound about how they're divided. You hear these statements so much that humorist Robert Benchley once said, "There are two kinds of people in the...

    Tags: Tropical Storms, Hurricane Irene (2011), Tropical Storm Lee (2011), Weather, Natural Disasters

    8. Jun 27, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  8. `Do what you think is best.'

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    Every so often when we're traveling by car, Johanna will suggest that we consult a stranger by the roadside for directions. I generally don't like to do this, and my ritual answer is, "I prefer to do what I think......
    9. Jul 5, 2010 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Remembering 'Tinker to Evers to Chance'

    They are, arguably, the best-known Chicago Cubs of all time.
    They are, arguably, the best-known Chicago Cubs of all time. And though Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance last played together in 1912 – indeed, all have been dead more than 60 years -- their names live on among baseball fans. All...

    Tags: Baseball, Dorothy Parker, Poetry, Meryl Streep, Johnny Evers

    10. Jan 27, 2009 |Story| Associated Press
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    Tags: Obituaries, Death, John Updike, Awards and Prizes, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    11. Apr 27, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Lobbying for a stay at New York's Algonquin

    Tribune reporter
    As I write this mash note to the Algonquin, the clubby enclave with the most storied literary history of any Manhattan hotel, the resident cat, Matilda, is lounging on one of the bell carts near the front desk. I'm sitting a few yards away, with my laptop...

    Tags: Politics, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker, Broadway Theater, Orson Welles

    12. Aug 1, 2002 |Story| Calendar Live

  12. 'Gatsby' Revisits a Stormy Life

    Times Staff Writer
    Considerable local interest may well greet "Gatsby in Hollywood," receiving its world premiere at the MET Theatre. Author Joshua Rebell traces the turbulent love affair of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham against the studio politics and media...

    Tags: Kate Mulgrew, Education, Deborah Kerr, Gregory Peck, Quinn Sullivan

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