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Janet Fitch at the Festival of Books
Panel: Fiction — Family Ties When: 1:30 p.m. Saturday Where: Andrus Gerontology Center on the USC campus Who: Janet Fitch, Julie Otsuka, Christopher Tilghman, moderated by John FreemanTags: Janet Fitch
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Poet Kay Ryan among the geniuses
Jacket CopyKay Ryan, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and a former U.S. poet laureate, is among this year's recipients of MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants.... -
On Friday, Granta brings Pakistan to L.A.
Jacket CopyThe latest issue of Granta magazine, on sale now, focuses on Pakistan. Not just a country devastated by floods, but a relatively young nation facing an array of modern pressures. "Filled with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages,........ -
The Story Prize announces its 2010 finalists
Jacket CopyA MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow, an award-winning short-story writer and a debut novelist are the finalists for the 2010 Story Prize, it was announced Monday. The Story Prize provides a $20,000 award to the author of a collection of short...... -
'Chronic,' by D.A. Powell
Chronic
Poems
D.A. Powell
Graywolf: 78 pp., $20
There are poets who show us the exterior world and poets who ferry news of their inner turmoil. Yet very few possess the double vision required to do both. Sylvia Plath surveyed and stoked the fires...Tags: Poetry, Sylvia Plath, Death, Gary Snyder
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Report on the Brooklyn Book Festival 2009
Jacket CopyMaybe not every community should have a book festival, but Brooklyn, N.Y., showed how to throw an excellent one Sunday. With more than 150 booksellers, magazines and other bookish folks set up in tents on the plaza in front of...... -
Margaret Atwood's apocalyptic humor
Jacket CopyWith "The Year of the Flood," Margaret Atwood presents another story of our apocalyptic future. Reviews of "The Year of the Flood" all seem similarly amused (for the new novel has many touches of humor), admiring, perhaps also a little...... -
Don't send that e-mail, a writer suggests
John Freeman, a longtime book critic who recently became the editor of the literary magazine Granta, has written a new book called "The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox" (Simon & Schuster: 256 pp., $25).
He's conceived of...Tags: Education, Career and Workplace, Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, Stanford University
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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: Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens
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'The Year of the Flood' by Margaret Atwood
The Year of the Flood
A Novel
Margaret Atwood
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: 434 pp., $26.95
Lady Oracle has been quiet the last six years. Yes, there have been half a dozen books, an opera even. But no novels, and it is in her novels that Margaret Atwood...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Doris Lessing, Death, Personal Service, Surgery
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'My Father's Tears' and 'Endpoint' by John Updike
My Father's Tears
And Other Stories
John Updike
Alfred A. Knopf: 292 pp., $25.95
Endpoint
And Other Poems
John Updike
Alfred A. Knopf: 98 pp., $25
Of course he was going to write until the end.
Several million words, 60-plus books. No American of...Tags: John Updike, Tooth Decay, Poetry, Fashion Shows, Death
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D.A. Powell wins $100,000 prize for poetry
Culture MonsterD.A. Powell, who teaches at the University of San Francisco, has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. His books include "Tea," "Lunch," "Cocktails" and "Chronic." In a review in The Times last year, John...
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