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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: University of Iowa, New York, World War II (1939-1945), Mass Media, Cornell University
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'Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963' by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff
Reborn Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963 Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 318 pp., $25 In September 2006, an excerpt of Susan Sontag's diaries, edited by her son, David Rieff, was published in the New York Times magazine,...Tags: New York, Susan Sontag, Elizabeth Bishop, University of California, Los Angeles, The New York Times
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Emmy-winning actor Browne Dies at 81
Times Staff WriterRoscoe Lee Browne, the Emmy-award winning actor with the mellifluous baritone that he used to give voice to roles as varied as Shakespeare's plays and the popular animal film "Babe," died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81....Tags: Entertainment, French Literature, Sidney Poitier, Dylan Thomas, Music Theater
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'Poems: 1959-2009' by Frederick Seidel
Poems 1959-2009 Frederick Seidel Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 510 pp., $40 In September 1968, a wide-ranging New York Times lifestyle piece headlined "Central Park's New Era: Fun for Everyone" took the measure of several New Yorkers, including a college...Tags: Arizona, New York, Cancer, The New York Times, Diseases and Illnesses
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Unexpected affinities
![Careers have arcs. Writers develop and change, as evidenced by <b>"I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems" </b>(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 360 pp., $16), a new bilingual anthology of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and <b>"Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman"</b> (Vintage: 384 pp., $14.95), a collection of 24 stories spanning more than two decades by Haruki Murakami. Neruda died in 1973 at 69, while Murakami, approaching 60, is happily very much still with us.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-11/33715406-09151643.jpg "Careers have arcs. Writers develop and change, as evidenced by <b>"I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems\" </b>(Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 360 pp., $16), a new bilingual anthology of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and <b>\"Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman\"</b> (Vintage: 384 pp., $14.95), a collection of 24 stories spanning more than two decades by Haruki Murakami. Neruda died in 1973 at 69, while Murakami, approaching 60, is happily very much still with us.")
Careers have arcs. Writers develop and change, as evidenced by "I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 360 pp., $16), a new bilingual anthology of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, and "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" (Vintage:...Tags: Hawaii, Courtney Love, England, New York, Martin Amis
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'The Lincoln Anthology' edited by Harold Holzer, 'The Best American History Essays on Lincoln' edited by Sean Wilentz, Ronald C. White's biography 'A. Lincoln' and others
It was Tuesday, May 30, 1922, the day of the dedication of the solemn and splendid memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington, and the ceremony on the Mall featured speeches by President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
The most...Tags: Frederick Douglass, White House, Defense, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln
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Girl, Interrupted
TIMES FILM CRITICTuesday December 21, 1999 "Girl, Interrupted," Susanna Kaysen's exceptional memoir of the nearly two years she spent as a teenager in a mental institution, is about the porous line between sanity and madness. "People ask, How did you get in there?"...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Plastic Surgeons, Whoopi Goldberg, Sylvia Plath
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'Sylvia'
Times Staff WriterShe was extraordinarily gifted. She was beautiful. She had a passionate marriage to a handsome, equally gifted man. She experienced what's been described as "a prolonged, high-pitched ecstasy like nothing else in literature." And then she died,...Tags: Entertainment, Michael Gambon, Movies, Documentary (genre), Daniel Craig
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