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Book calendar: Author events for the week of September 12, 2010
Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY William Gibson: The author will read and sign his new novel, "Zero History." Book Soup 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Noon. Free. (310) 659-3110. William Gibson: The author will read and...Tags: Mass Media, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Anglicanism, Architecture, Sunset Boulevard
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Comin' at ya! Book reviews on an iconic boxer, freakonomics, Frankenstein [updated]
Jacket CopyIn our pages this week, Tim Rutten reviewed "Sweet Thunder" by Will Heygood, a biography of boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. Robinson is "now universally acknowledged as the greatest prizefighter who ever lived," Rutten writes: Anyone who ever saw him in...... -
Lord Byron letters sell for a record $459,000
Jacket CopyToday in London, a collection of letters from British poet Lord George Byron sold at auction for $459,110.67, exceeding the highest pre-sale estimates by more than $160,000 and selling for more than any other letters or manuscript by a British...... -
Hot and dead: Literary vampires before 'Twilight'
Jacket Copy(For the record: This post first appeared with an illustration of an earlier version of the book cover.) Vampire stories didn’t begin with Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series, Anne Rice’s bayou bloodsuckers or even Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”... -
Books for travelers
!["The Summer Cottage:](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-05/53752491-14135724-187105.jpg ""The Summer Cottage:")
"The Summer Cottage:
Retreats of the 1000 Islands"
Rizzoli, $45
The relatively unknown Thousand Islands is an archipelago of nearly 1,900 islands in the St. Lawrence River on the U.S.-Canadian border in northern New York and southern Ontario. Ever...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Transportation Industry, Travel, Health, Hospitals and Clinics
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Music review: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Culture MonsterIt’s tempting to call conductor Vasily Petrenko “the tall Russian dude.” At 33, he’s four years older than Gustavo Dudamel, who turned 29 last week, but he shares a similarly vital, elemental approach to music. In his astonishing Walt Disney...... -
Before there was Dr. Atkins, there was Jean Brillat-Savarin
Booster ShotsIf you thought low-carb diets were a relatively recent fad, check out “The Physiology of Taste” by Jean Brillat-Savarin. The French lawyer, who also studied chemistry and medicine, was the first to extol the virtues of consuming fewer carbohydrates... -
Deep, Dark Secrets of His and Her Brains
Times Staff WriterHAMILTON, Canada — The invitation curled from her fax machine, a courtly question scrawled above the signature of a man whose name she did not recognize. "Would you be willing to collaborate with me on studying the brain of Albert Einstein?" It...Tags: Anatole France, Stranger Than Fiction, Social Issues, Politics, Brain
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A Primeval Tide of Toxins
Times Staff WriterThe fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. When fishermen touched it, their skin broke out in searing welts. Their lips blistered and peeled. Their eyes...Tags: Baltic Region, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Ecosystems, Politics, California
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Same game, different rules
![Twenty years ago, Ballantine Books decided it no longer wanted to publish paperbacks exclusively, as it had done for the previous 35 years. Bucking convention, the firm launched its hardcover program with a first novel by an untested female writer that tapped into so many genres -- a little history, a little mystery, a little romance, all wrapped up in a cloak of mathematics-minded geek girl heroines in two time periods two centuries apart. Classification was nearly impossible. As publishing gambles go, this one was gargantuan: If the book failed, it would take an entire storied name, one that embodied a revolution in the way people read and bought books, down with it. That book did not fail. Instead, <b>"The Eight" </b>(Ballantine: 624 pp., $14.95 paper) became an international bestseller -- one that allowed Ballantine to repeat the same risk and reward the following year with <b>"The Quincunx" </b>(Ballantine: 800 pp., $20 paper), Charles Palliser's 500,000-word Dickensian thriller. The very lack of classification enabled "The Eight" and its author, Katherine Neville, to find a wide, devoted readership because it wasn't like anything else that had been published before. Not because it was unique -- there are nods to "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Gödel, Escher, Bach," "The Name of the Rose" and much else in popular culture and otherwise -- but because of Neville's ability to synthesize a whole host of historical and contemporary concepts in a way that made readers respond as if the work was unique. It's a brainier, more feminist precursor to the bestselling behemoth that is Dan Brown's <b>"The Da Vinci Code" </b>(Anchor: 496 pp., $7.99 paper).](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-09/42578549-26115840.gif "Twenty years ago, Ballantine Books decided it no longer wanted to publish paperbacks exclusively, as it had done for the previous 35 years. Bucking convention, the firm launched its hardcover program with a first novel by an untested female writer that tapped into so many genres -- a little history, a little mystery, a little romance, all wrapped up in a cloak of mathematics-minded geek girl heroines in two time periods two centuries apart. Classification was nearly impossible. As publishing gambles go, this one was gargantuan: If the book failed, it would take an entire storied name, one that embodied a revolution in the way people read and bought books, down with it. That book did not fail. Instead, <b>"The Eight\" </b>(Ballantine: 624 pp., $14.95 paper) became an international bestseller -- one that allowed Ballantine to repeat the same risk and reward the following year with <b>\"The Quincunx\" </b>(Ballantine: 800 pp., $20 paper), Charles Palliser's 500,000-word Dickensian thriller. The very lack of classification enabled \"The Eight\" and its author, Katherine Neville, to find a wide, devoted readership because it wasn't like anything else that had been published before. Not because it was unique -- there are nods to \"Raiders of the Lost Ark,\" \"Gödel, Escher, Bach,\" \"The Name of the Rose\" and much else in popular culture and otherwise -- but because of Neville's ability to synthesize a whole host of historical and contemporary concepts in a way that made readers respond as if the work was unique. It's a brainier, more feminist precursor to the bestselling behemoth that is Dan Brown's <b>\"The Da Vinci Code\" </b>(Anchor: 496 pp., $7.99 paper).")
Twenty years ago, Ballantine Books decided it no longer wanted to publish paperbacks exclusively, as it had done for the previous 35 years. Bucking convention, the firm launched its hardcover program with a first novel by an untested female writer that...Tags: Entertainment, New York, Gaming, Bobby Fischer, Colorado
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Turkish pride and The Times
We've had plenty of cause for celebration lately that we are not bound by Article 301 of the Turkish penal code (which specifies a six-month-to-three year prison sentence for insulting "being a Turk, the Republic or Turkish Grand National Assembly") or...Tags: Coup d'Etat, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Massacres, Europe, Politics
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In "A Summer of Hummingbirds," scholar Christopher Benfey looks at cultural reconstruction after the Civil War
By Art Winslow
Christopher Benfey, a scholar of Emily Dickinson and Gilded Age America, would not have his book "A Summer of Hummingbirds" had Dickinson not responded to a small floral painting sent to her in 1882 by writing an eight-line poem in...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Walt Whitman, Poetry, Plymouth, Amusement and Theme Parks
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