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Book review: 'While Mortals Sleep' by Kurt Vonnegut
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWhile Mortals Sleep Unpublished Short Fiction Kurt Vonnegut, foreword by Dave Eggers Delacorte: 272 pp., $27 It was in the 1950s that Kurt Vonnegut, then in his early 30s, quit his job as a publicity man for the research department of General Electric...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rube Goldberg, Book, Mark Twain, Career and Workplace
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President Obama tackles immigration near Mexican border
Hispanosphere - Orlando SentinelRemarks of President Barack Obama, Immigration and Border Security Tuesday, May 10, 2011, El Paso, Texas Hello, El Paso! It’s great to be back here with all of you, and to be back in the Lone Star State. I love coming to Texas. Even the welcomes are... -
PASSINGS: Glenn Shadix, Lucius Walker, LeRoy A. Beavers Jr., Mike Edwards, Larry Ashmead, Corneille
Glenn Shadix
Character actor worked with Tim Burton
Glenn Shadix, 58, a character actor best remembered for his portrayal of the portly, pretentious interior designer Otho in director Tim Burton's 1988 ghost comedy "Beetlejuice," died Tuesday at his...Tags: Foreign Aid, Public Employees, Economic Sanctions, African Americans, Washington (U.S. state)
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Check It Out: Driven to distraction by technology
The pursuit of happiness drives Western society. And our obsession to find it often is propelled by the need to connect with the latest technology. For example, thousands will stand in line for the latest gadget because it represents a recent step into...Tags: YouTube, Libraries, Science and Technology, Newport Beach, Arts and Culture
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Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings
!["I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58208423-10154158.jpg ""I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'\" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, \"because I am not sure which policy it fits the better.\"")
Special to the Los Angeles Times"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...Tags: Science Fiction (genre), Robert Heinlein, Fritz Lang, Politics, Children
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Martin Gardner dies at 95; prolific mathematics columnist for Scientific American
![Martin Gardner, for 25 years the master of matters mathematical for <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=profile-of-martin-gardner">Scientific American's</a> "Mathematical Games" column and later the punisher of the paranormal and the pseudoscientific in his column "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" for the <a href="http://www.csicop.org/si/">Skeptical Inquirer,</a> died Saturday at a hospital in Norman, Okla. He was 95. No cause of death was announced.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-05/53946008-25224344.jpg "Martin Gardner, for 25 years the master of matters mathematical for <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=profile-of-martin-gardner\">Scientific American's</a> \"Mathematical Games\" column and later the punisher of the paranormal and the pseudoscientific in his column \"Notes of a Fringe Watcher\" for the <a href=\"http://www.csicop.org/si/\">Skeptical Inquirer,</a> died Saturday at a hospital in Norman, Okla. He was 95. No cause of death was announced.")
Martin Gardner, for 25 years the master of matters mathematical for Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column and later the punisher of the paranormal and the pseudoscientific in his column "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" for the Skeptical Inquirer,...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Book, Oklahoma, Hospitals and Clinics, Science
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Isaac Asimov was born 90 years ago today
The Hero ComplexHere it is, 2010, and I still don't have my flying car. When I was a youngster I was certain that the 21st century would live up to its bookshelf hype and that I would be visiting domed cities on...... -
'Android Karenina' writer says Tolstoy might not like remake: 'He seems to have taken himself very seriously.'
The Hero ComplexFIVE QUESTIONS: BEN H. WINTERS Ben H. Winters shares the author credit on his new book with literary lion Leo Tolstoy, who died 100 years ago this November. The book is called "Android Karenina" and, yes, that's right, it reimagines...... -
Who do you write like?
Jacket CopyAre your characters as snazzy as James Bond? Are your sentences lyrical as those in "Lolita"? Pop a few paragraphs into the website I Write Like to find out if you write like Ian Fleming or Vladimir Nabokov. You might...... -
Monster Mash: New bid to crack Boston art heist; drama prize for Julia Cho; Ansel Adams' son sues museum
Culture Monster-- Cold case: The FBI is hoping advances in DNA analysis will help it catch the art thieves responsible for the 1990 super-heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. (Boston Globe) --Drama award: Santa Monica writer Julia Cho's...... -
A little bit of heaven on Earth
I have a bad habit of annoying Christians. Partly it's because I don't believe in Jesus, and partly it's because Jesus keeps letting me write columns about how I don't believe in Jesus. Last March, after some campaigning, I got Starbucks to put a quote...Tags: Services and Shopping, Mark Twain, Religious Leaders, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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L.A.'s Nostradamus
BRIAN DOHERTY is a senior editor of Reason magazine and the author of "Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement."THE science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was born in Missouri, and his fiction was mostly set in the future and on distant planets. But there's no question that Heinlein — born 100 years ago this week — was one of Southern California's...Tags: Space Programs, Science Fiction (genre), Robert Heinlein, Walter Cronkite, Civil and Public Service
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