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Counting on the generosity of the crowd
Robert Stone was a healthy baby until he was 13 months old. Then, over three or four days, he became unresponsive and lost the use of his limbs. His bewildered parents put him through one medical test after another, each yielding inconclusive results....Tags: Business, Charity, Human Interest, Startups, Diseases and Illnesses
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Rethinking Hemingway 50 years after his death
Los Angeles TimesBoozy, boorish and self-besotted, the world-famous writer in Woody Allen's current hit film, "Midnight in Paris," is kind of a clown. And, as played by actor Corey Stoll, he's an instantly recognizable replica of the author of "The Sun Also Rises" and...Tags: Suicide, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Midnight in Paris (movie), Awards and Prizes
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Book review: 'The Hair of Harold Roux' by Thomas Williams
Los Angeles Times Book CriticThe Hair of Harold Roux A Novel Thomas Williams Introduction by Andre Dubus III, afterword by Ann Joslin Williams Bloomsbury: 384 pp., $15 paper Thomas Williams' novel "The Hair of Harold Roux" occupies a peculiar limbo of the lost: Published in...Tags: Lungs and Airways, Book, Literature, New Hampshire, Arts and Culture
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Culture(d)—October 2011
LA Times MagazineIn the realm of arts+ideas: didactic decor, KAWS for cartoons—and High Desert hijinks... -
National Book Awards announce 2011's 5 under 35
Jacket CopyFive young novelists have been selected as the 2011 5 under 35 by the National Book Foundation.... -
The Reading Life: The vagaries of awards
Jacket CopyDavid L. Ulin on Thomas Williams' "The Hair of Harold Roux" and Robert Stone's "Dog Soldiers."... -
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.... -
Summer reading: Fiction, poetry
Busy Monsters William Giraldi W.W. Norton: $24.95 When a mediocre writer's bride-to-be leaves him to search for a legendary giant squid, he treks across the continent seeking counsel from nefarious creatures on how to win back her affections. (August)...Tags: Lower East Side, Poetry, Michigan, Joseph Conrad, Human Interest
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Check It Out: Library has your hiking adventures covered
The weather is warming up, so now is the time to get out and explore what Southern California has to offer. The Newport Beach Public Library stocks many books on hiking throughout Orange County and the region, from the mountains to the coast to the...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Libraries, San Diego (San Diego, California), Arts and Culture, San Gabriel
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Movie Review: The Conspirator
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelA battle-scarred lawyer starts to wonder what he was fighting for when he faces a military court bent on revenge and a nation willing to forget the Constitution to have that revenge in “The Conspirator,” Robert Redford's courtroom drama... -
Palm Springs: Was Police Department's gay sex sting unfair profiling?
L.A. NOWA June 2009 gay sex sting by the Palm Springs Police Department netted 19 indecent-exposure arrests. But it has also sparked outrage and debate ever since. The latest chapter involves the resignation of the city's police chief. The Times' Inland...... -
College Student, 19, Dies In Fall At Church In Italy
wpix.comA Marist College student died Friday when he fell while climbing a steep flight of stairs leading to an ancient church in Rome, Italy. Robert Stone, 19, was sightseeing at the time of the accident with his roommate and roommate's father said Marist...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, WPIX, Christianity
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