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PASSINGS: Doris Betts, Norman Fruman, Stanley R. Resor, Greg Ham, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller
Doris Betts
Southern author of short stories, novels
Doris Betts, 79, a novelist and writing teacher best known for short stories and novels that evoke the geography and mores of the South, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Pittsboro, N.C.,...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Unrest, Conflicts and War, England, Awards and Prizes, Lung Cancer
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Fashion News: Madonna and Lourdes' Material Girl adds new stuff
All The RageMadonna and Lourdes Leon's Material Girl adds beauty products, among other things.... -
'The Vampire Archives,' edited by Otto Penzler
The Vampire Archives
The Most Complete Volume
of Vampire Tales Ever Published
Edited and with an Introduction
by Otto Penzler
Vintage: 1034 pp., $25 paper
"You have heard, no doubt, of the appalling superstition that prevails in Upper and Lower...Tags: Fiction, Alcoholic Beverages, England, Ray Bradbury, Anne Rice
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Coming to the Festival of Books: Matthew Zapruder
Jacket CopyPoet Matthew Zapruder talks about writing about high culture and low culture. He'll be at the Festival of Books Sunday.... -
Sleep where the legends slept in grand old California hotels
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole," British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And, I might add, place to place. There's something special about bedding down where Albert Einstein, Marilyn...Tags: Television, Metal and Mineral, Ginger Rogers, Music Theater, Mark Twain
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'Operation Bite Back' by Dean Kuipers
Operation Bite Back Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness Dean Kuipers Bloomsbury: 320 pp., $25 In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a ship strays into uncharted waters and an albatross appears out of the...Tags: Animals, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Crimes, Punishment, Wildlife
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'Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life' by Edna O'Brien
Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective.
George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company, though it's hard to believe that even the linguistic...Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Arts and Culture, Literature, Biography (genre), Poetry
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Man of mud
By Nick Owchar
Why do so many monsters live in Victorian London? Was there something toxic in the Thames (Spenser probably wouldn't call it "sweet" if he could have seen it then -- or now) or in the fog that, as the Environmental Protection Agency points...Tags: Prostitution, Literature, Entertainment, Reviews, Michael Cox
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A complex relationship with 'King Lear'
Special to The TimesOctober 24, 2007 With this piece, we introduce a series of occasional articles in which contemporary writers look back at classic works of literature. Here, Jack Lynch, the author of "Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a...Tags: Rutgers University, History, Abusive Behavior, Literature, World War II (1939-1945)
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England's rugged coast a favorite of the British
Special to The TimesExmoor is one of England's smallest national parks, but it packs a grand variety of natural attractions within its borders: magnificent coastal bluffs, lush woodland, tumbling streams. Despite all this wonderful countryside, don't expect to meet many...Tags: Gardens and Parks, William Wordsworth, Wetlands, Bodies of Water, Tourism and Leisure
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Students receive a drop of 'aha'
"Aha moments" are the best thing about reading good literature. Those moments occur when connections are made, memories are stirred and the intellect is stimulated. I see these moments every day in the classroom, and I cherish them. English class is...Tags: Poetry, The Herald-Mail
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Is there a poet in the house? Mitt Romney and conservative poetry
On Thursday, the Poetry Foundation, in association with the Poetry Society of America, is hosting a timely event in Chicago titled "Red, White & Blue: Poets on Politics." It's part of a national series being held in several American cities, with a...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Boston, Poetry
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