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    May 18, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Word power

    Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a fundamental role in defining a country's culture and its discourse.
    Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...

    Tags: Bruno Schulz, Herman Melville, Nathanael West, Walt Whitman, Joseph Conrad

    2. Jun 10, 2011 |Story| Winchester Sun

  2. Patrick: Letters to the editor are the voices of the people

    “The job of the citizen,” said the German poet Gunter Grass, “is to keep his mouth open.”
    “The job of the citizen,” said the German poet Gunter Grass, “is to keep his mouth open.” Freedom of speech is the most essential of all civil rights and responsibilities because it is the one that ensures the others. Voting is not...

    Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Politics, Freedom of the Press, Censorship

    3. Jan 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. 37 literary resolutions for 2011. What's yours?

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    26 literary resolutions for 2011 from writers and readers. What's yours?...
    4. Oct 25, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Nobel laureates in literature: the good, the bad and the Nazi

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    When 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...
    5. Apr 12, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84

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    Kurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died. He was 84. One of the last of a...

    Tags: Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Crichton, Charlie Chaplin, Tom Wolfe

    6. Feb 19, 1998 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Palmetto

    FOR THE TIMES
    Friday February 20, 1998      It must be hard being considered something of a legend as a serious filmmaker and never getting a piece of the commercial pie that is shared so generously with the most hackneyed studio directors. It's enough to drive a...

    Tags: Entertainment, Gina Gershon, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Rapaport, Sony Corp.

    7. Jan 8, 1999 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. The Ogre

    TIMES STAFF WRITER
    Friday January 8, 1999      Volker Schlondorff's "The Ogre," adapted from Michel Tournier's celebrated novel "The Erl King," is a superb companion piece to the director's Oscar-winning 1979 film of Gunter Grass' "The Tin Drum." Both deal with the specter...

    Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Entertainment, Richard Wagner, Movies, Germany

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