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Herzog: I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't favor capital punishment
24 FramesWerner Herzog's new film "Into the Abyss" explores the morality of capital punishment.... -
Happy 105th birthday, Eva Zeisel
Jacket CopyNoted ceramicist Eva Zeisel turns 105 years old today; the literary journal A Public Space recently published her memoirs of imprisonment in Russia under Stalin.... -
Filmmakers behind George Plimpton documentary seek final funds in Kickstarter campaign
Jacket CopyA documentary about writer/editor George Plimpton, founder of the Paris Review and first-generation immersive journalist, is raising funds on Kickstarter.... -
Eve Babitz kicks off L.A. '60s art world tribute
Culture MonsterEve Babitz, prolific author and art muse, helps kick off Pacific Standard Time, this fall's 60-venue tribute to L.A.'s 1960s art scene, at a Hammer Museum discussion.... -
ALOUD's 2011 schedule selling out fast
Jacket CopyJoan Didion, Common, Colson Whitehead, David M. Kennedy, Alexandra Fuller Karl Marlantes and Jonathan Lethem will appear at ALOUD this fall.... -
Pop & Hiss premiere: New video for Gabriel Kahane's single 'L.A.'
Pop & HissSinger and composer Gabriel Kahane taps L.A. filmmaker Lewis Klahr for "L.A." music video. Gabriel Kahane's sophomore album, "Where Are the Arms," will be released Sept. 13.... -
Reading L.A.: David Brodsly's 'L.A. Freeway'
Culture MonsterAs far as polarizing subjects in Los Angeles go, freeways have long ranked near the top, perhaps trailing only Shaq-Kobe and the question of where the Eastside really begins. Most of us love to complain about our freeways -- about...... -
Book review: 'I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections' by Nora Ephron
Los Angeles TimesI Remember Nothing and Other Reflections Nora Ephron Alfred A. Knopf: 142 pp., $22.95 It's good to be Nora Ephron. When you're Nora Ephron, you can get Meryl Streep, who once played a fictionalized version of you, to star as Julia Child in your...Tags: Journalism, Washington (U.S. state), The New York Times, Lillian Hellman, Dining and Drinking
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Book review: 'Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War'
Los Angeles TimesRevolution The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War Deb Olin Unferth Henry Holt: 212 pp., $24 In the 1980s, Central America was astir with civil unrest, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua. While nation-states and their proxies intervened...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Central America, Book, Philosophy, Human Interest
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Tom Wolfe to receive the National Book Foundation's highest honor
Tribune reporterTom Wolfe is one of the reasons I got into journalism and, really, into writing in general. His pieces mixed facts and traditional reporting with striking personal accounts and interesting literary techniques in way that appeased both my type-A...Tags: New York City, Journalism, Human Interest, Tom Wolfe, Awards and Prizes
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Literary journalism finds new platforms
![When National Book Award-winning novelist William T. Vollmann went to Japan this spring to report on the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from inside the contamination zone, he did what any journalist would do. He bought a dosimeter to chart the radiation. He took "Cold War-era iodide tablets," which made his tongue tingle and left him with a rash. He decided to ignore statistics or official statements in favor of his observations, his conversations with survivors, his impressions: a kind of overview. "The stunning capacity of the Japanese official to say absolutely nothing," he writes, "is matched only by the absurd degree of trust that his public places in him."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/61542018-12152912.jpg "When National Book Award-winning novelist William T. Vollmann went to Japan this spring to report on the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from inside the contamination zone, he did what any journalist would do. He bought a dosimeter to chart the radiation. He took "Cold War-era iodide tablets,\" which made his tongue tingle and left him with a rash. He decided to ignore statistics or official statements in favor of his observations, his conversations with survivors, his impressions: a kind of overview. \"The stunning capacity of the Japanese official to say absolutely nothing,\" he writes, \"is matched only by the absurd degree of trust that his public places in him.\"")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticWhen National Book Award-winning novelist William T. Vollmann went to Japan this spring to report on the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant from inside the contamination zone, he did what any journalist would do. He bought a dosimeter to chart the...Tags: Journalism, The New York Times, Media Industry, Nuclear Power, India
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After a decade of fear, we're connected to writing in new ways
This is a decade that ended much as it began: with anxiety over technology and a feeling that the world as we know it might be coming to an end. Remember? Ten years ago, we were dealing with Y2K anxiety, and even the most skeptical of us -- if we're...Tags: Culture, Philip Roth, Barack Obama, Mass Media, Elections
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