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‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems’ by Kay Ryan
Book review: ‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems' by Kay Ryan
The Best of It
New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan
Grove: 270 pp., $24
Contemporary poetry is a bit like visual art. Much of it makes you grab your chin and nod in stumped...Tags: John Freeman, Wallace Stevens
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Stewart L. Udall dies at 90; Interior secretary championed national parks
Stewart L. Udall, who as Interior secretary in the 1960s vastly expanded the country's system of national parks and monuments and developed far-reaching legislation to protect public lands, has died. He was 90.
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FOR THE RECORD:...Tags: Mormonism, Tourism and Leisure, John F. Kennedy, Corruption, Bars and Clubs
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Book Review: Treasured memories of a beloved brother
Anton Chekhov
A Brother's Memoir
Mikhail Chekhov, translated from the Russian by Eugene Alper
Palgrave Macmillan: 230 pp., $25
Anton Chekhov's life is well documented: When he died of consumption in 1904 at age 44, he was honored all over the world....Tags: Alice Munro, Colleges and Universities, Health, Internists, William Trevor
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'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: Colleges and Universities, University of Oxford, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), Africa, University of Michigan
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The critics: 5 new titles worth checking out
CRITICISM IN AMERICAN CULTURE: New releases
Here are five titles that put the lie to the notion that criticism is a dying art.
Corn Flakes With
John Lennon
And Other Tales from
a Rock 'n' Roll Life
Robert Hilburn
Rodale: 280 pp., $24.99
Hilburn,...Tags: Popular Music (genre), Literature, Culture, Joan Baez, Music Industry
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'Love and Summer: A Novel' by William Trevor
Love and Summer
A Novel
William Trevor
Viking: 212 pp., $25.95
That William Trevor has not yet received the Nobel Prize in Literature strikes me as a shame. Surely his absence from the list of laureates has more to do with the politics of national...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Republic of Ireland, Arts and Culture, William Trevor, England
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Richard Poirier dies at 83; literary critic helped found Library of America
Richard Poirier, a literary critic and writer who was one of the founders of the Library of America, a monumental effort to keep American literary classics in print and accessible to the reading public, died Aug. 15 at Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He...Tags: Harvard University, Thomas Pynchon, Culture, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rutgers University
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Calendar: events for March and April 2008
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCALIFORNIA Taste of Yountville Mustard lovers and others can graze at this Napa Valley event, part of the annual Mustard Festival, which ends March 29. Tastings are provided by 15 area restaurants, 20 local wineries and a variety of mustard and olive-...Tags: Mustard, Arts and Culture, Petroleum Industry, Sports, Poetry
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For Most Vulnerable, a Promise Abandoned
Times Staff WritersPearl Inferrera had $70 to her name when she arrived at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. At 83, she had fallen in her apartment and broken her wrist. Doctors diagnosed her with dementia and chronic anemia. Inferrera's meager circumstances and...Tags: Public Employees, Illnesses, Finance, Apartments, Trials
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Tom Braden dies at 92; former CIA operative became columnist and talk show co-host
Tom Braden, a former CIA operative who became a syndicated newspaper columnist, liberal co-host of the CNN talk show "Crossfire" and author of "Eight Is Enough," a 1975 memoir that spawned the popular television series, died of natural causes Friday at...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Culture, Television, Police Investigations, Entertainment
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The curve in 'The Road Not Taken'
Quick: What do rocker Melissa Etheridge, self-help guru M. Scott Peck and troubled insurance giant AIG have in common?
Answer: A common misreading of one of America's most famous poems.
All have made use of a line from Robert Frost's 1916 poem, "The...Tags: M. Scott Peck, Sociology, Poetry, Middlebury, Politics
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Hugely popular painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91
Andrew Wyeth, whose realistic yet often melancholy paintings of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America's most popular living artists, and whose 1948 landscape "Christina's World" was one of the 20th century's most famous artworks, died...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), John F. Kennedy, Grant Wood, George W. Bush, World War II (1939-1945)
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Original site for Robert Frost topic gallery.
