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Sorrow for the lost 'Poe Toaster': No cognac, roses left at grave
Nation NowFor the third year in a row, the “Poe Toaster,” who annually marked the birth of Edgar Allan Poe by leaving cognac and three roses on his grave, failed to make to the nocturnal trip.... -
William Gibson talks to Wired
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2011 Nebula Award nominees announced
Jacket CopyThe nominees for the Nebula science fiction and fantasy writing awards were announced today.... -
Fans create unofficial new trailer for Disney's 'John Carter'
Company Town"John Carter" fans created their own unauthorized version of the new film trailer for Walt Disney Studios' upcoming space adventure movie.... -
The lowly dandelion: It’s got some good points
TribLocal - EvanstonDandelions are cropping up in lawns all over suburbia and the city–and that's got homeowners screaming as it usually does this time of year. Some …... -
Celebrating 12 in 2012
In an anecdote that sticks to the memory like an overdone cookie on an undergreased cookie sheet — those 2011 holiday baking mishaps still rankle — an American visiting the Sorbonne is accosted by a French student. "You Americans!" the...Tags: Fiction, Ernest Hemingway, The Ides of March (movie), Julia Keller, University of Paris
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The Readers Drink and Digest Book Club
Founded in 2001, our club meets monthly.
We pick titles by theme and try to bring food and drink to match the book's content. Some of our favorite combinations were graveyard cake and blood punch for Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and...Tags: Rhode Island, Arts and Culture, Steve Martin, Ohio, Literature
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Putting surf pulp on paper
It all started with a story.
For the last 13 years, Craig Lockwood, the 73-year-old former editor of Surfing and Surfer magazines, has been toiling over a detective story he wrote based on a down-on-his-luck private eye who works out of a Santa Monica...Tags: Fiction, Dining and Drinking, William Faulkner, Periodicals, Thalia
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The Siren's Call: Step right up!
![The novel <strong>"The Night Circus"</strong> (Doubleday: 387 pp., $26.95) is receiving a good deal of attention, and it's rightly deserved — even though some comparisons of Erin Morgenstern's fable to other popular books seem sky-high and unfair (to her). Does anyone's book, for instance, really deserve the pressure of being called the next Harry Potter? Can anyone live up to that?](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64977151-23173346.jpg "The novel <strong>"The Night Circus\"</strong> (Doubleday: 387 pp., $26.95) is receiving a good deal of attention, and it's rightly deserved — even though some comparisons of Erin Morgenstern's fable to other popular books seem sky-high and unfair (to her). Does anyone's book, for instance, really deserve the pressure of being called the next Harry Potter? Can anyone live up to that?")
The novel "The Night Circus" (Doubleday: 387 pp., $26.95) is receiving a good deal of attention, and it's rightly deserved — even though some comparisons of Erin Morgenstern's fable to other popular books seem sky-high and unfair (to her). Does...Tags: Nature, Circuses, Fiction, Book, Entertainment
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'Terra Nova' premiere: Disaster in the making
Subtlety isn’t a strength of the new FOX show “Terra Nova.” With all the mystery and none of the finesse of “Lost,” and all the dinosaurs and none of the excitement of “Jurassic Park,” the show has all the makings...Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Stephen Lang
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The Crosby Chronicles: Observing Banned Books Week
++++++++++++++++++++ || Since this week is Banned Books Week, and since one of my colleagues over at Glendale High School is fighting for Truman Capote’s "In Cold Blood" to be approved as a book to teach to advanced 11th grade English students,...Tags: Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, Education
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Margaret Tante Burk dies at 93; host of Round Table West
Margaret Tante Burk, a businesswoman, publicist and book enthusiast who co-founded one of the country's largest literary lunch groups, died Oct. 6 in Los Angeles of natural causes, her son, Harry, said. She was 93.
For 30 years, until 2007, Burk ran...Tags: Diplomacy, Joint Ventures, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Walter Cronkite, Richard Paul Evans
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Dec 30, 2011
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Sep 1, 2011
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Sep 15, 2011
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Sep 25, 2011
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Sep 26, 2011
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Sep 28, 2011
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Oct 13, 2011
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