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Book review: 'The Confession' by John Grisham
Los Angeles TimesIf only life moved along at the same clip as a John Grisham novel. Beginning writers should study him the way budding composers study Brahms or Pachelbel. He is a master at pacing, even if that doesn't always make up for some of his shortcomings. His...Tags: Rape, Sex Crimes, Prosecution, John Grisham, Texas
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Indie Focus: 'Night Catches Us' examines the Black Panthers circa 1976
![Recent films such as "Carlos," "The Baader Meinhof Complex" and "Che" have looked at the blowback and aftermath of the revolutionary adventures of the 1960s and '70s across Europe and South America. With "Night Catches Us" writer-director Tanya Hamilton brings some of those same passions and upheavals to domestic shores with a look at the personal undercurrents that drive the political actions in one neighborhood in Philadelphia in 1976.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-11/57876336-25124408.jpg "Recent films such as "Carlos,\" \"The Baader Meinhof Complex\" and \"Che\" have looked at the blowback and aftermath of the revolutionary adventures of the 1960s and '70s across Europe and South America. With \"Night Catches Us\" writer-director Tanya Hamilton brings some of those same passions and upheavals to domestic shores with a look at the personal undercurrents that drive the political actions in one neighborhood in Philadelphia in 1976.")
Recent films such as "Carlos," "The Baader Meinhof Complex" and "Che" have looked at the blowback and aftermath of the revolutionary adventures of the 1960s and '70s across Europe and South America. With "Night Catches Us" writer-director Tanya Hamilton...Tags: Anthony Mackie, Arts and Culture, Columbia University, Documentary (genre), Leonard Bernstein
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Through a lens
![It goes without saying, though I'll say it anyway, that Charles Osgood is my favorite photographer, but it was nice to see many other great Tribune photographers gathered Tuesday in the Tower, talking about their work in a new book, "Chicago in Season."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58133151-07100808-187105.jpg "It goes without saying, though I'll say it anyway, that Charles Osgood is my favorite photographer, but it was nice to see many other great Tribune photographers gathered Tuesday in the Tower, talking about their work in a new book, "Chicago in Season.\"")
It goes without saying, though I'll say it anyway, that Charles Osgood is my favorite photographer, but it was nice to see many other great Tribune photographers gathered Tuesday in the Tower, talking about their work in a new book, "Chicago in Season."...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Thomas Masters, Mike Royko, Roger Ebert
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PASSINGS: Salvador Jorge Blanco, Robin White
Salvador Jorge Blanco
Former president of Dominican Republic
Salvador Jorge Blanco, 84, a former Dominican Republic president who was convicted of corruption in a decision later overturned by an appeals court, died Sunday at his home in Santo Domingo,...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Venezuela, California, Government, Colleges and Universities
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"The Privileges: A Novel" by Jonathan Dee
!["The Privileges: A Novel"](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/56453767-30113758-187105.jpg ""The Privileges: A Novel\"")
Special to the Tribune"The Privileges: A Novel" By Jonathan Dee Random House 272 pages, $25 The late Mrs. William F. Buckley Jr.—that splendid, long-reigning demigoddess of New York social life-- would have had little patience for Adam and Cynthia Morey, the charmed and...Tags: William F. Buckley, New York, Insider Trading, Education, Wesleyan University
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Raymond Carver revisited in 'Collected Stories'
Collected Stories
Raymond Carver
Library of America: 1,020 pp., $40
When does an act of reclamation cease to be about restoration and become about something else? That's the question raised by "Collected Stories," the Library of America's new...Tags: Mountains, Raymond Carver, Colorado, Vehicles, Fishing
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PASSINGS: Scott Davis, Ed Moose, Frank Kermode, Ghazi Algosaibi
Scott Davis
Mount SAC track and field announcer
Scott Davis, 66, a longtime track and field announcer and statistician who added to the prestige of the Mount San Antonio College Relays by attracting such stars as Marion Jones, Carl Lewis and Asafa...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, United Kingdom, San Francisco, California, Colleges and Universities
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'Hitch 22' by Christopher Hitchens
Hitch-22
A Memoir
Christopher Hitchens
Twelve: 448 pp., $26.99
With the possible exception of Tom Wolfe and Maureen Dowd's, Christopher Hitchens' marvelous byline is the most archly kinetic in current-day American letters. Every article, review and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Theodore Roosevelt, United Kingdom, Washington, DC, History
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When it paid to photograph hard truth
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The 10 photographers in "Engaged Observers," opening June 29 at the Getty Museum, are at once storytellers, witnesses, advocates for justice, investigative journalists, consciousness raisers, evidence gatherers and educators. They're also something...Tags: Arts and Culture, Documentary (genre), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Culture, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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I bet you think this post is about you
Jacket CopyThe book "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement" caught my eye at the office -- maybe because much of its cover is shiny and silver. It's designed to look like a mirror, I suppose -- you couldn't...... -
What we talk about when we talk about Carver
Jacket CopyIn Books this weekend, David L. Ulin looks at the new 1,020-page Library of America Raymond Carver book, "Collected Stories." The uneasy creative relationship between Carver, who died in 1988, and his longtime editor Gordon Lish came to light in...... -
'Project Runway': Something blue
Reality CheckThey tried to tell me not to recap, I said noooooo, nooooo, nooooo! Greetings single moms, stay-at-home dads and guys who are trying to make nice with their wives by watching Lifetime. I'm Kevin Van Valkenburg, sports writer by day,......Tags: Jennifer Beals, World War II (1939-1945), Robin the Boy Wonder (fictional character), Los Angeles, Biz Markie
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