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    Apr 29, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Stagecoach 2012: Steve Martin goes whole hog in Indio

    Pop & Hiss
    It was with some sense of deja vu that Steve Martin pulled into Stagecoach for a performance Saturday that had him and the Steep Canyon Rangers slotted to play immediately after bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley, a situation similar to one for which...
    2. Apr 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Music review: Gabriel Kahane's score is conducted by his father

    Gabriel Kahane, best known as an indie singer-songwriter, was his own charismatic singer-songwriter Saturday night in the West Coast premiere of his affecting "Crane Palimpsest" at the Alex Theatre.
    Gabriel Kahane, best known as an indie singer-songwriter, was his own charismatic singer-songwriter Saturday night in the West Coast premiere of his affecting "Crane Palimpsest" at the Alex Theatre. As he does in a club, he used a microphone and wore...

    Tags: Culture, Gypsy Rose Lee, Poetry, Paul Bowles, Hart Crane

    3. Mar 28, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist

    Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82.
    Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82. The cause was...

    Tags: Teachers, Human Rights, Columbia University, Customs and Tradition, Rheumatoid Arthritis

    4. Apr 15, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. An Appreciation: Adrienne Rich

    It was a freezing night in March 1978 — and the small, determined woman climbing next to me up the icy incline to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women leaned on a cane. I wanted to take her arm, but because she was famously fiercely independent, I hesitated. Later, I thought that I was right to hold back: Adrienne Rich was that kind of standard-bearer, accustomed to her own "climb," accustomed to a righteous loneliness in her ascent.
    It was a freezing night in March 1978 — and the small, determined woman climbing next to me up the icy incline to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women leaned on a cane. I wanted to take her arm, but because she was famously fiercely...

    Tags: Feminism, Poetry, Prisons, Arthritis, Mark Twain

    5. Dec 16, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Christopher Hitchens: In our pages, in our memories

    Opinion L.A.
    Christopher Hitchens' influential life was lived out in public argument on panels, at lecterns, in books, magazines, newspapers and on Internet screens, including the Los Angeles Times. He wrote Op-Eds and book reviews, stretching back to 1990. In our...
    6. Aug 27, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  6. Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin

    An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, &quot;On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree." But the Sun Valley Writers' Conference bears an annual crop of words and ideas, and Merwin is here as a master gardener of that. He just ended a year's term as the nation's poet laureate. He <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/merwin/">has to his name two Pulitzer Prizes and more than 30 books of poetry and prose</a>, and a hand-planted forest at home of rare and endangered palms. <a href="http://www.merwinconservancy.org/">The Merwin Conservancy</a> is dedicated to keeping his works green -- the ones he created with words, and the natural ones that exist before and beyond them.
    An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...

    Tags: Radio, File Sharing, Dylan Thomas, Genesis (music group), Computer Networking and Internet

    7. Apr 30, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Paperback Writers: Sunlight and shadow in 'Los Angeles in the 1930s'

    Created by FDR in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (a small part of the wider Works Progress Administration) was a make-work agency that gave jobs to about 6,500 writers, editors and researchers before closing shop in 1943. The government, in other words, used taxpayers' money to pay small but welcome salaries to writers. Go figure.
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Created by FDR in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (a small part of the wider Works Progress Administration) was a make-work agency that gave jobs to about 6,500 writers, editors and researchers before closing shop...

    Tags: Crimes, History, Los Angeles Police Department, Murder, James Robert Thompson

    8. Jan 23, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Reynolds Price dies at 77; author and longtime Duke professor

    In 1984, when he was 51, novelist Reynolds Price learned that a pencil-shaped tumor, about 10 inches long and malignant, had invaded his spine. Several surgeries and dozens of radiation treatments followed, leaving him a paraplegic racked with pain and the uncertainty of his survival. His happy life of teaching Milton at Duke University and writing several hours a day was over, or so it seemed in his many dark moments.
    In 1984, when he was 51, novelist Reynolds Price learned that a pencil-shaped tumor, about 10 inches long and malignant, had invaded his spine. Several surgeries and dozens of radiation treatments followed, leaving him a paraplegic racked with pain and...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Physical Conditions, Duke University, William Faulkner, Happiness (state of mind)

    9. Aug 18, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Book review: 'The Twilight of the Bombs' by Richard Rhodes

    The concluding volume in the magisterial historical tetralogy Richard Rhodes calls &quot;The Making of the Nuclear Age" bears a weighty subtitle that hints at its somewhat discursive nature.
    Los Angeles Times
    The concluding volume in the magisterial historical tetralogy Richard Rhodes calls "The Making of the Nuclear Age" bears a weighty subtitle that hints at its somewhat discursive nature. "The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and...

    Tags: Saddam Hussein, Russia, Nuclear Policy, Wars and Interventions, Science and Technology

    10. Feb 23, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  10. This Recording's marvelous writers series

    Jacket Copy
    A blog series on writers from This Recording is a must-read....
    11. Oct 3, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Book Review: Adam Phillips' "On Balance"

    On Balance
    On Balance Adam Phillips Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 314 pp., $26 What is it, exactly, that makes reading Adam Phillips such a refreshing, rewarding and invigorating experience? A psychoanalyst who splits his time between his private practice and his...

    Tags: Cinderella (fictional character), Science and Technology, Health Treatments, Science, Psychotherapy

    12. Aug 29, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate

    Reporting from Maui &#8212;
    Los Angeles Times
    Reporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...

    Tags: Buddhism, Natural Resources, Forestry and Timber, Wildlife, Awards and Prizes

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