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Google doodle celebrates Jorge Luis Borges' 112th birthday
Jacket CopyJorge Luis Borges is celebrated by Google on his 112th birthday.... -
Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
J.D. Salinger dies at 91; reclusive author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'
After "The Catcher in the Rye" exploded onto the literary scene in 1951, author J.D. Salinger had what every writer yearns for -- money, fame and critical acclaim. "Catcher" became a touchstone for the teenage culture just emerging in post-World War II...Tags: Civil Unrest, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Joseph Heller, Florida, James Dean
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Book review: 'Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories' by Edith Pearlman
Los Angeles Times Book CriticBinocular Vision New & Selected Stories Edith Pearlman Lookout Books: 374 pp., $18.95 paper I'll confess: I had never heard of Edith Pearlman before reading "Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories," a collection of 34 pieces of her short fiction...Tags: Book, Los Angeles Times, New York, Human Interest, Civil Unrest
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Witt: Banning books, not ideas
The banning and suppression of books has been going on for several hundred years.
Of course, prior to the invention of the Gutenburg press in the middle of the 15th century, books were relatively rare and reading was limited to royalty, the upper...Tags: Thomas Hardy, Ray Bradbury, Anne Frank, Henry Miller, Harry Potter (fictional character)
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"Lastingness: The Art of Old Age" by Nicholas Delbanco
Special to the Tribune"Lastingness: The Art of Old Age" By Nicholas Delbanco Grand Central Publishing, 261 pages, $24.99 Six years ago, during one of my summer writers' workshops, I found myself presented with a young man who was already (at the ripe age of 12) a world-...Tags: David Letterman, Human Interest, Georgia O'Keeffe, Science and Technology, Music Industry
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3 books about banned books
“Burn This Book: Pen Writers Speak Out On the Power of the Word”
Edited by Toni Morrison (2009)This international collection of essays range from writers around the world, from Morrison and John Updike to Orhan Pamuk and Nadine Gordimer,...Tags: Nadine Gordimer, Censorship, Ray Bradbury, Kern County, John Steinbeck
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Wylie-Amazon e-books partnership gives in to Random House
Jacket CopyPowerful agent Andrew Wylie's plan to sell the e-book backlist of some of his best-known authors -- among them John Updike, Ralph Ellison and Philip Roth -- has come mostly undone. The e-book venture, Odyssey Editions, is a partnership with...... -
Tom Wolfe to get lifetime achievement award
Jacket CopyTime for Tom Wolfe to get his white suit dry-cleaned again, as the author will receive the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, it was announced Wednesday. The medal, which is the foundation's... -
Philip Roth talks to David L. Ulin
Jacket CopyIn Sunday’s Arts & Books, Times book critic David L. Ulin visits with Philip Roth, whose 31st book, the novel "Nemesis" -- which involves a polio epidemic in 1940s Newark, N.J. -- comes out Tuesday. During the conversation, Roth touched...... -
10/10/10: The 10 best 'Best of' books of 2010
Jacket CopyAt the end of the calendar year, bookstores are swamped with anthologies proclaiming the "best of" writing of the year. There is, apparently, a lot of really good writing: above is just a sample of the galleys and paperbacks that...... -
Happy birthday, Toni Morrison
Jacket CopyNobel Laureate Toni Morrison turns 80 today, Feb 18....
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