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The Arts on TV: 'Mona Lisa'; 'Hamlet'; 'Cyrano de Bergerac'
Culture Monster"Late Show With David Letterman" 11:35 p.m., Thursday, CBS: A performance from "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." "How It Was" 7 a.m., Friday. NGC: "Secrets of 'Mona Lisa'": Historians discover that Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" can....... -
Chicagoland book club: 43 years after the big snow
![<strong> <a style="float: left;" href="http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d834518cc969e20134849e7335970c-pi"><img style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 345px; height: 228px;" title="Bookclub" src="http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d834518cc969e20134849e7335970c-800wi" border="0" alt="Bookclub" /></a> Things to know about our book club: </strong>Our book club began in Glenview during the big snow in 1967 when two mothers, snowed in with young children, decided to organize a neighborhood book club for much-needed intellectual stimulation. We started with six members and an ambitious reading list that included Honore de Balzac's “Cousin Bette,” Franz Kafka's “The Trial,” Thomas Mann's “The Magic Mountain,” James Joyce's “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and Stendhal's “The Red and the Black.” We now have 15 members who live in the northern suburbs. Our daughters love books; two are founding members of a Chicago book club. In 2005 we organized a book drive for U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-10/56680667-11151054-187105.jpg "<strong> <a style="float: left;\" href=\"http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d834518cc969e20134849e7335970c-pi\"><img style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 345px; height: 228px;\" title=\"Bookclub\" src=\"http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d834518cc969e20134849e7335970c-800wi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookclub\" /></a> Things to know about our book club: </strong>Our book club began in Glenview during the big snow in 1967 when two mothers, snowed in with young children, decided to organize a neighborhood book club for much-needed intellectual stimulation. We started with six members and an ambitious reading list that included Honore de Balzac's “Cousin Bette,” Franz Kafka's “The Trial,” Thomas Mann's “The Magic Mountain,” James Joyce's “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and Stendhal's “The Red and the Black.” We now have 15 members who live in the northern suburbs. Our daughters love books; two are founding members of a Chicago book club. In 2005 we organized a book drive for U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan.")
Things to know about our book club: Our book club began in Glenview during the big snow in 1967 when two mothers, snowed in with young children, decided to organize a neighborhood book club for much-needed intellectual stimulation. We started with six...Tags: Billy Collins, Franz Kafka, Lifestyle and Leisure, Stratford, Dining and Drinking
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Book review: 'By Nightfall' by Michael Cunningham
Los Angeles Times Book CriticBy Nightfall A Novel Michael Cunningham Farrar, Straus and Giroux 238 pp., $25 Revolving around Peter and Rebecca Harris — fortysomething aesthetes in Manhattan's SoHo, he an art dealer and she the editor of an independent art journal —...Tags: Walt Whitman, Fiction, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Crime, Law and Justice, SoHo
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PASSINGS: Ernesto Sabato, Henry Cooper, Olaf Helmer
Ernesto Sabato
Argentine writer presided over probe of rulers
Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, 99, a widely admired intellectual who presided over a probe into the crimes committed by the nation's military rulers, died Saturday of complications from...Tags: Science and Technology, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Abusive Behavior, University of Southern California, Argentina
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L.A.'s German accent
At one time, Los Angeles was Weimar on the Pacific: Numerous German-speaking émigrés put their stamp on the city to which they'd fled.
What with directors such as Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch, writers such as Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, and...Tags: Charlie Chaplin, World War II (1939-1945), University of Southern California, Heinrich Heine, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Nobel laureates in literature: the good, the bad and the Nazi
Jacket CopyWhen the Nobel Prize in literature was announced this month, the name "Herta Muller" met much American head-scratching. Muller, an ethnically German Romanian who writes of trials of living under a repressive dictatorship, has a strong reputation in Europe... -
Matt Weinstock, Dec. 17, 1959
The Daily MirrorForgotten Men As you probably read, film director, Joseph Von Sternberg has sued Fox for $1 million, charging the 1959 version of "The Blue Angel" with May Britt and Curt Jurgens was made without his consent and was inferior to his 1929 version with... -
Change is hard to come by in Senate
The Swampby Lisa Mascaro Just when the Senate was poised to change an arcane rule that let even a single senator paralyze the entire chamber, a single senator stood up and invoked another arcane rule to derail the whole thing. It......Tags: Migration, Democratic Party, Elections, Ron Wyden, Heads of State
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Summer reading: Maria Semple on Tolstoy
Jacket CopyFor summer, we've created the L.A. Times list of 60 books for 92 days. All of these are new titles being released during the next three months -- it's a plethora of great summer reads. At Jacket Copy, we're asking...... -
Four centuries of writing into America
Jacket CopyThe Library of America anthology "Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing" is daunting, weighing in at 724 pages -- however much a hardcover wrapped around 724 pages weighs -- but too good to pass up. Among the writers in...... -
Jack and Allen, in their own words
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
The Letters
Edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford
Viking: 528 pp., $35
"Howl" (1956) and "On the Road" (1957), two works that helped define a time, sprang from two wildly fired, independent imaginations. Few would...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Education, Columbia University, Los Angeles Times, Colleges and Universities
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Siren's Call: A talk with Michael Moorcock
![<i>Where do you begin with Michael Moorcock? His career and background range as far and wide as his characters do across the multiverse. Novelist, short story writer, editor (of New Worlds and other publications), journalist, <a href="http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Moorcock,%20Michael/a/Michael%20Moorcock.htm ">musician</a> -- and, in the case of this column, a very gracious interviewee. His detailed answers below, like those found on his website, <a href="http://www.multiverse.org/">Moorcock's Miscellany</a>, seem designed to help enthusiasts and scholars alike to a better understanding of his multiverse.</i>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48531978-13182603.jpg "<i>Where do you begin with Michael Moorcock? His career and background range as far and wide as his characters do across the multiverse. Novelist, short story writer, editor (of New Worlds and other publications), journalist, <a href="http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Moorcock,%20Michael/a/Michael%20Moorcock.htm \">musician</a> -- and, in the case of this column, a very gracious interviewee. His detailed answers below, like those found on his website, <a href=\"http://www.multiverse.org/\">Moorcock's Miscellany</a>, seem designed to help enthusiasts and scholars alike to a better understanding of his multiverse.</i>")
Where do you begin with Michael Moorcock? His career and background range as far and wide as his characters do across the multiverse. Novelist, short story writer, editor (of New Worlds and other publications), journalist, musician -- and, in the case...Tags: Science and Technology, Edgar Rice Burroughs, London (England), Peter Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor
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