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The literary side of Marilyn Monroe
Los Angeles TimesSince her death on Aug. 5, 1962, hundreds of books about Marilyn Monroe have been published by various writers, ranging from famous names such as Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem and Joyce Carol Oates, to people who worked with her on movie sets. With so...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Steinem, Arthur Miller, Arts, Feminism
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Book review: 'People Who Eat Darkness' is a masterful true crime tale
People Who Eat Darkness The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up Richard Lloyd Parry FSG Originals: 464 pp., $16 paper Americans have an advantage in reading "People Who Eat...
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A tweenager toys with new identity
Tribune NewspapersA funny thing happens when a retired journalist brings his 20-plus years of word craft to fiction writing — namely, the birth of a 12-year-old boy named Max, whose angles are shaped by David Foster Wallace, Norman Mailer and the author himself,...Tags: Maserati, David Foster Wallace, Passenger Cars, Authors, Spaghetti
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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: Petroleum Industry, Albert Camus, Facebook, John Dos Passos, Arts and Culture
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Maurice Sendak dies at 83, author of 'Where the Wild Things Are'
He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time....
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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: Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Octavio Paz, Justice and Rights, NPR
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson's "Ed King"
Tribune NewspapersDavid Guterson has won 2011's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The tongue-in-cheek prize was presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday. As in years past, the award-winning author was not in attendance. Guterson was awarded the prize for writing a marathon...Tags: Religion and Belief, Tom Wolfe, Bible, Arts and Culture, Haruki Murakami
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Go ahead, judge them by their covers
![When architect and design firm owner Steve Kadlec was asked recently whether bookshelves were becoming obsolete in the iPad age, he wisecracked: "Who reads books? We buy them for pretty!"](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66668619-09130448-187105.jpg "When architect and design firm owner Steve Kadlec was asked recently whether bookshelves were becoming obsolete in the iPad age, he wisecracked: "Who reads books? We buy them for pretty!\"")
Tribune NewspapersWhen architect and design firm owner Steve Kadlec was asked recently whether bookshelves were becoming obsolete in the iPad age, he wisecracked: "Who reads books? We buy them for pretty!" He was only half-joking. With digital competition, hardcover books...Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sex Pistols (music group), Tina Turner, John Lennon, Alexander McQueen
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Vivid images and words on Marilyn Monroe
![The suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for making people wait while relaxing in a hot bath. In 1972, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer took refuge a few steps away in one of the secluded bungalow-like rooms to soak up the ambience while writing his biographical essay on the tragic celebrity.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66710018-11200858.jpg "The suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting\" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for making people wait while relaxing in a hot bath. In 1972, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer took refuge a few steps away in one of the secluded bungalow-like rooms to soak up the ambience while writing his biographical essay on the tragic celebrity.")
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for...Tags: Naomi Watts, Julie Newmar, Celebrities, Michelle Williams, Book
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Chicago is 'Boss' star Troy Garity's kind of town
RedEyeAfter filming NBC’s “The Playboy Club” and Starz’ “Boss” in Chicago over the summer, Troy Garity misses the city. “I’m going through total Chicago withdrawal at the moment,” Garity, who also filmed...Tags: Concerts, Michigan Avenue, Music, Henry Fonda, Twin Anchors
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The best presents for the book nerds on your gift list
It Chooses You, by Miranda July (McSweeney's, 2011)
The filmmaker/artist/poet/fiction writer Miranda July is well-known for her movies, whose moods share a kind of charming sincerity with that of her other work. Last month, July's first attempt at...Tags: Miranda July, Music, Dave Eggers, Cormac McCarthy, Joan Didion
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The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson
Jacket Copy2011's Bad Sex in Fiction award went to David Guterson's "Ed King," a modern retelling of the Oedpius story....
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