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School reading: James Prosek on Elizabeth Bishop
Jacket CopyJames Prosek was just 19 when his first book, 1996's "Trout: An Illustrated History," was published. It included original watercolors he'd painted of North American trout as well as the stories he'd learned about them. This fall, he turns his...... -
John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration in Pictures
The Daily MirrorLos Angeles Times file photo Jan. 20, 1961: Here is the story of President Kennedy’s inaugural as told through photos from The Times archives. Above, President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy shortly after the inauguration. Keep... -
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: Middlebury, John Steinbeck, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Last Station (movie), Herman Melville
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Donald S. Kellermann dies at 83; led Times Mirror research group
Donald S. Kellermann, who brought a new depth to opinion polling on politics, public policy and the media as founding director of the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, died Tuesday of liver cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. He was 83....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Politics, David Ben-Gurion, Gallup, Inc., Elections
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'Prejudices: The Complete Series,' H.L. Mencken
Los Angeles TimesPrejudices The Complete Series H.L. Mencken 2 volume, boxed set Library of America, $70 There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay — writers whom I spend half an hour...Tags: Samuel Johnson, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Newspaper and Magazine, G.K. Chesterton, H.L. Mencken
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'Making Toast: A Family Story' by Roger Rosenblatt
Making Toast
A Family Story
Roger Rosenblatt
Ecco: 168 pp., $21.99
On Dec. 8, 2007, the day that Amy Rosenblatt Solomon collapsed on the treadmill and died, her parents, Roger and Ginny Rosenblatt, drove from their Long Island home to be with Amy's...Tags: Long Island, Everlast, Family Vacations, Travel, Crimes
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'Concerning E.M. Forster' by Frank Kermode
Concerning E.M. Forster
Frank Kermode
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 192 pp., $24
E.M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" is required reading for students of the genre. Originally delivered in 1927 as the Clark Lectures at Trinity College in Cambridge, the...Tags: India, Literature, Fiction, Arts and Culture, University of Michigan
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Summer heat or apocalypse? Three books offer answers.
Jacket CopySome say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I???ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To...... -
Serving poetry with your pumpkin pie
Jacket CopyMany of our Thanksgiving traditions are slightly twisted versions of what really happened. There wasn't any turkey served; the first one was probably in Texas, not Massachusetts; Pilgrims didn't dress in black or wear tall hats. But if our myths...... -
'Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus' edited by Edward Connery Lathem
Despite his reputation as a public performer, the poet Robert Frost came uneasily both to readings and lectures of any kind. He was so nervous about public speaking that he once put stones in his shoes to distract him from stage fright; early on, he...Tags: Poetry, Literature, Arts and Culture, University of Michigan, Philosophy
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Planted in the San Joaquin
In October 2002, a trim, white-haired poet named Don Thompson sat down in a farmhouse in the San Joaquin Valley and wrote a poem called "Turning Sixty." In it, he compared his birthday to the climb of "a few degrees on the thermometer" that "add up to the...Tags: Poetry, Forestry and Timber, Mass Media, Pistachios, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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'The Suicide Run: Five Tales of the Marine Corps' by William Styron
The Suicide Run
Five Tales of the Marine Corps
William Styron
Random House: 198 pp., $24
The business -- and I use the word advisedly -- of posthumous publication is a troubling one. We honor our dear dead. Yet there are certain kinds of attention...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Gustave Flaubert, University of Michigan, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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