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C. David Heymann dies at 67; controversial bestselling biographer
C. David Heymann, a bestselling biographer whose titillating accounts of famous lives often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled because of factual disputes, has died. He was 67.
Heymann...Tags: Book, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Farrah Fawcett, Elizabeth Taylor, Arts and Culture
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Poet Richard Wilbur helps kick off the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival on June 1
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Kickoff Weekend June 1-3, Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, (860) 677-4787, hillstead.org. It would be hard to find a more accomplished living poet in the world today than Richard Wilbur. In addition to...
Tags: Canton (Hartford, Connecticut), Richard Wilbur, Newspaper and Magazine, Arts and Culture, Poetry
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A family trait of making music
If conductor Jeffrey Kahane led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with even more vim and vigor than usual during last weekend's concert at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, he had good reason. The program of new and familiar music on Saturday, April 21...
Tags: Theater, Hart Crane, Jazz (genre), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Charles Ives
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Risselle 'Rikki' Fleisher
![Risselle "Rikki" Fleisher, a former general counsel to the Maryland Commission on Human Relations who was a legal advocate in civil rights cases, died Tuesday of <a href="/health/breastcancer/">breast cancer</a> at Stella Maris Hospice. The Bethany Beach, Del., resident was 77.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-05/69716416-02150914.jpg "Risselle "Rikki\" Fleisher, a former general counsel to the Maryland Commission on Human Relations who was a legal advocate in civil rights cases, died Tuesday of <a href=\"/health/breastcancer/\">breast cancer</a> at Stella Maris Hospice. The Bethany Beach, Del., resident was 77.")
Risselle "Rikki" Fleisher, a former general counsel to the Maryland Commission on Human Relations who was a legal advocate in civil rights cases, died Tuesday of breast cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. The Bethany Beach, Del., resident was 77.
"She wanted...Tags: Maryland Transit Administration, University of Pennsylvania, Crime, Law and Justice, Breast Cancer, New York City
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Three World Premieres Highlight New Yale Rep Season
The 2012-13 Yale Repertory Theatre season will feature three world premieres by Sarah Ruhl, David Adjmi and a collaboration by Bill Camp and Robert Woodruff, based on a Rainer Werner Fassbinder film.
Oscar-nominee ("Sideways") and Emmy Award-winner ("...Tags: Tony Awards, Entertainment Events, Kirk Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Awards and Prizes
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Patt Morrison Asks: The poet, W.S. Merwin
An Idaho resort hotel's verdure is not the wild tumble around W.S. Merwin's beloved Hawaiian home, but disciplined grass and orderly stands of trees. Not, perhaps, the sort of trees Merwin had in mind when he wrote, "On the last day of the world I would...Tags: Dylan Thomas, Poetry, Radio, Science, Movies
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Bankruptcies: June 22-28
Here are bankruptcy filings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of South Dakota, for June 22-28, 2011. Individuals can file Chapter 7 petitions (asking that debts be liquidated); Chapter 12 (a simplified reorganization method for farmers and ranchers...Tags: Watertown, Bankruptcy, South Dakota, Financially Distressed Companies
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The Virginia Quarterly Review, part 1: A suicide rocks the esteemed literary journal
Jacket CopyOn July 30, Kevin Morrissey printed a note, gathered his identification and called the Charlottesville, Va., police to report a shooting at the coal tower, a local landmark. When they arrived, it was Morrissey they found dead of a self-inflicted...... -
W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate
Los Angeles TimesReporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...Tags: Robert Bly, Forestry and Timber, Poetry, James Wright, Children
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Rediscoveries: 'The Tree' by John Fowles
Special to the Los Angeles TimesRe-Discoveries An occasional look at classic reissues… The Tree by John Fowles with a new introduction by Barry Lopez (Ecco: 94 pp., $13.99 paper) "The key to my fiction," wrote Fowles in 1979 when this essay was first published, "lies in my...Tags: Colorado, New York, England, Landforms, Natural Resources
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George Hitchcock dies at 96; poet and publisher of the literary magazine 'kayak'
![George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine "kayak" helped free American poetry from mid-20th century orthodoxies and provided an early forum for such distinguished writers as Robert Bly, Raymond Carver and Philip Levine, died Friday at his home in Eugene, Ore. He was 96.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/55922805-01194743.jpg "George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine "kayak\" helped free American poetry from mid-20th century orthodoxies and provided an early forum for such distinguished writers as Robert Bly, Raymond Carver and Philip Levine, died Friday at his home in Eugene, Ore. He was 96.")
George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine "kayak" helped free American poetry from mid-20th century orthodoxies and provided an early forum for such distinguished...Tags: Robert Bly, Health, Richard Wilbur, Newspaper and Magazine, Sports
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W.D. Snodgrass dies at 83; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, teacher
Associated PressW.D. Snodgrass, the prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had a nearly 40-year teaching career, has died in upstate New York. He was 83. His family said he died Tuesday at his home in Erieville, N.Y., just east of Syracuse, after a four-month...Tags: Death, Old Dominion University, Mass Media, New York, Awards and Prizes
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