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Pages of History – The Walrus of Moron-Land
The Daily Mirrorcame across this article from the February 1928 issue of “The American Mercury” while researching the 1910 bombing of The Times. It’s a bit difficult to determine from ProQuest precisely when Louis Sherwin [Hugo Louis Sherwin Golitz] worked for... -
Memories of Little Italy
Dining@LargeA sweetly illustrated new book arrived on the Antipasto Desk, America's Little Italys: Recipes & Traditions from Coast to Coast. Its author, Sheryl Bellman, devotes about half of the book's geography to the Little Italy neighborhoods in Manhattan and the....Tags: Thanksgiving, Manhattan (New York City), Al Capone, Little Italy (Baltimore, Maryland), Italy
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In our pages: E.L. Doctorow, Colm Toibin, boxing, Lee Krasner
Jacket CopyIn Sundays pages, we review short story collections by E.L. Doctorow and Colm Toibin, a biography of Lee Krasner, a new anthology of writing about boxing and more.... -
The Reading Life: Revisiting 'Mildred Pierce'
Jacket CopyReading Mildred Pierce, book critic David L. Ulin says, proves James M. Cain was not a great hard-boiled novelist but a great novelist period.... -
Paperback Writers: Deep into mysteries of Hammett and Hemingway
![Black Mask, the great pulp fiction magazine, was launched by H.L. Mencken in 1920 but really started to come into its own some six or seven years later under the editorship of Joseph T. Shaw, who would in time publish almost the entire pantheon of classic hardboiled American crime writers: Raymond Chandler, Horace McCoy, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raoul Whitfield, Lester Dent, Fredric Brown, Cornell Woolrich and so on. The list goes on and on. But Shaw's main man, his ace performer, the writer whose career he helped launched into the stratosphere — and whose lean, mean bullet narratives furnished Black Mask with its identity — was Dashiell Hammett. It's fitting, then, that although Otto Penzler's whopping new anthology,<b> "The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories"</b> (Vintage: $25), features all of the above authors, and many more, its thrilling centerpiece is Hammett's greatest book, "The Maltese Falcon." Here it is published in its entirety, not in its final book form but as it first appeared in serial form in the pulpy pages of the magazine.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-10/56464518-01170819.jpg "Black Mask, the great pulp fiction magazine, was launched by H.L. Mencken in 1920 but really started to come into its own some six or seven years later under the editorship of Joseph T. Shaw, who would in time publish almost the entire pantheon of classic hardboiled American crime writers: Raymond Chandler, Horace McCoy, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raoul Whitfield, Lester Dent, Fredric Brown, Cornell Woolrich and so on. The list goes on and on. But Shaw's main man, his ace performer, the writer whose career he helped launched into the stratosphere — and whose lean, mean bullet narratives furnished Black Mask with its identity — was Dashiell Hammett. It's fitting, then, that although Otto Penzler's whopping new anthology,<b> "The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories\"</b> (Vintage: $25), features all of the above authors, and many more, its thrilling centerpiece is Hammett's greatest book, \"The Maltese Falcon.\" Here it is published in its entirety, not in its final book form but as it first appeared in serial form in the pulpy pages of the magazine.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesBlack Mask, the great pulp fiction magazine, was launched by H.L. Mencken in 1920 but really started to come into its own some six or seven years later under the editorship of Joseph T. Shaw, who would in time publish almost the entire pantheon of classic...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, San Francisco, Forehead
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Analysis: 'Shaky' Schaefer finds his way
![William Donald Schaefer's biggest achievement was also his most unlikely: A man insecure enough to earn the nickname "Shaky" managed to restore the self-confidence of an entire city.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-04/60991753-18183957.jpg "William Donald Schaefer's biggest achievement was also his most unlikely: A man insecure enough to earn the nickname "Shaky\" managed to restore the self-confidence of an entire city.")
William Donald Schaefer's biggest achievement was also his most unlikely: A man insecure enough to earn the nickname "Shaky" managed to restore the self-confidence of an entire city.
The former mayor, governor and comptroller, who died Monday at the...Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Edgewood, William Donald Schaefer, Local Elections
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'Prejudices: The Complete Series,' H.L. Mencken
Los Angeles TimesPrejudices The Complete Series H.L. Mencken 2 volume, boxed set Library of America, $70 There are writers whose books are stacked on my nightstand: G.K. Chesterton, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington Macaulay — writers whom I spend half an hour...Tags: Robert Frost, Discrimination, Philosophy, Newspaper and Magazine, Science and Technology
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The two Comments of the Week
Dining@LargeSometimes something needs to be said and it's nice when one of you says it so eloquently, more eloquently than I could have said it. EL Paul W and Donny B, you are technically correct about Baltimore's food traditions of......Tags: Weather, Dining and Drinking, Baltimore Weather, Steaks, Liver
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: On opposite corners
![On a recent Saturday, on opposite corners at Oceanview and Honolulu in Montrose, diametrically opposed perceptions faced each other waving their placards hoping to entice those passing by into the labyrinth of their perspective political ideologies. As I observed, I thought of the words of Anais Nin, "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."](http://www.lacanadaonline.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-07/55228069-28151623.jpg "On a recent Saturday, on opposite corners at Oceanview and Honolulu in Montrose, diametrically opposed perceptions faced each other waving their placards hoping to entice those passing by into the labyrinth of their perspective political ideologies. As I observed, I thought of the words of Anais Nin, "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.\"")
On a recent Saturday, on opposite corners at Oceanview and Honolulu in Montrose, diametrically opposed perceptions faced each other waving their placards hoping to entice those passing by into the labyrinth of their perspective political ideologies. As...Tags: Winston Churchill
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'The Wilderness Warrior' by Douglas Brinkley
The Wilderness Warrior
Theodore Roosevelt and the
Crusade for America
Douglas Brinkley
Harper: 960 pp., $34.99
Reviewing several Roosevelt biographies in 1920, H.L. Mencken reported that he had found more "gush" than "sense." Douglas Brinkley's...Tags: Puerto Rico, Washington (U.S. state), North Dakota, Arizona, Ivy League
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End the regulations, replace them with transparency.
South Florida Sun-SentinelThThe late satirist H.L. Mencken had an idea of how to fix politics. Rather than holding elections, he suggested political leaders be chosen by lot, similar to the way we empanel juries. Need a legislature? Pick the names out of a hat. How about a city...Tags: Marco Rubio, Charlie Crist, Political Systems, Elections, Politics
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A drama critic's turn to face the music
![Critics don't get much respect. (Pause here for raucous laughter.) If you doubt it, look up the word "critic" in any book of quotations and see what you find.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-07/48080429-15122826.jpg "Critics don't get much respect. (Pause here for raucous laughter.) If you doubt it, look up the word "critic\" in any book of quotations and see what you find.")
Critics don't get much respect. (Pause here for raucous laughter.) If you doubt it, look up the word "critic" in any book of quotations and see what you find.
H.L. Mencken's "New Dictionary of Quotations" is full of zinger after zinger, most of which...Tags: Bette Davis, Firearms, Arts, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Defense
Sep 7, 2010
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Oct 26, 2010
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Mar 19, 2011
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Sep 30, 2010
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Apr 18, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 19, 2010
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Oct 3, 2009
|Blog| Baltimore Sun
Jul 28, 2010
|Story| LA Canada
Sep 27, 2009
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jul 16, 2009
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jul 19, 2009
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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