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Patt Morrison Asks: Jonah Lehrer, brain teaser
Zombies in movie theaters, zombies on television — a whole lot of us have brains on the brain. And so, in a substantially different way, does Jonah Lehrer. He's put himself at the crossroads of neuroscience and the humanities with books like his...Tags: Medical Research, Google Inc., Health, Schools, Science and Technology
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Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway
![For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises" in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I'd also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in its way.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62887735-30134252.jpg "For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises\" in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I'd also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in its way.")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticFor much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...Tags: History, Human Interest, Norman Mailer, Petroleum Industry, New York
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Guitarist for Lucky Boys Confusion found dead on West Side
Tribune reporterWhen Kaustubh “Stubhy” Pandav and Adam Krier wrote songs for west suburban-based rock band Lucky Boys Confusion, their melodies were never quite complete until guitarist Joe Sell got a hold of them. “Joe would add the attitude and the...Tags: Facebook, Caribou (music group), Entertainment, Music, Naperville Central High School
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Cannes 2012: Festival turns 65 with a lineup heavy on U.S. titles
24 FramesOpening Wednesday night with Wes Anderson's oddly endearing “Moonrise Kingdom,” the Cannes Film Festival is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year and marking that milestone by embracing all kinds of opposites: old and young, dramatic... -
John Updike's house to become a museum
Jacket CopyThe John Updike Society will purchase the author's childhood home, with plans to turn it into a museum.... -
'On the Road' adaptation gets distribution from IFC, Sundance
24 Frames"On the Road" is finally headed to U.S. theaters, completing a journey that began in 1978, when filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights to Jack Kerouac's novel. AMC Networks announced its acquisition of U.S. rights to the film "On the Road,"... -
The thwack of the bat
Bardball didn't start from a deep love of poetry, but from a swelling revulsion of Barry Bonds. In 2007, friends were emailing scathing limericks back and forth about the chemically enhanced slugger. They were too funny to waste, so Stuart Shea and I...
Tags: Ring Lardner Jr., New York Mets, A.J. Pierzynski, Poetry, Chicago Cubs
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Beat goes on at H.B. gallery
In the shadow of Bella Terra, a photographic exhibition is underway that chronicles a lesser-known French chapter in the history of the counterculture Beat movement. Through April 21, the OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art in Huntington Beach's Old World...
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New York Public Library gives up some of its secrets
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn my family, we've never recognized a distinction between happiness and the handling of books. Books in libraries, books in shops. Books that take you places, and books you can steal from — like Norman Maclean's memoir, "A River Runs Through It,"...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Manhattan (New York City), Libraries, Keith Richards, Biography (genre)
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Psychedelic Spring: A new Grateful Dead documentary gives Deadheads a reason to tune in and turn on
Every spring, I listen to the Grateful Dead with fresh ears, not to the exclusion of everything else, but close to it. (I'm not alone in this. How many people in the Northeast associate the Dead's music with thaw, both literal and spiritual?) Despite...
Tags: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jerry Garcia, Music, Human Interest, Buffalo Springfield (music group)
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10 top road trip apps
CNNSpring breaks are starting up across the country, which means it's the beginning of road trip season. In "Travels with Charley: In Search of America," one of literature's most famous road trips, John Steinbeck wrote, "We find after years of struggle that...Tags: Google Inc., CNN (tv network), Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hotels and Accommodations, Louis Armstrong
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Justice and Rights, Newspaper and Magazine, NPR, Book
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