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Still her husband's voice
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the 26 years since former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal gunned down her cop husband on a Philadelphia street, Maureen Faulkner has often felt like a reed in a tornado. As death penalty opponents around the world rallied to win Abu-Jamal a new trial,...Tags: Susan Sarandon, Documentary (genre), Assault, Trials, Book
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His wit was hard-boiled
![WE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, <b>" 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" </b>(Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by <b>Pete Hamill </b>and edited and annotated by Cornell professor <b>Daniel R. Schwarz</b>, makes us see afresh a writer whose hard-bitten and ironic point of view prefigures the fictional worlds of "The Godfather" and "The Sopranos." There's much more to Runyon than Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra looking sharp and talking cute in the 1955 film version of "Guys and Dolls."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39176063-20141135.gif "WE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, <b>" 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings\" </b>(Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by <b>Pete Hamill </b>and edited and annotated by Cornell professor <b>Daniel R. Schwarz</b>, makes us see afresh a writer whose hard-bitten and ironic point of view prefigures the fictional worlds of \"The Godfather\" and \"The Sopranos.\" There's much more to Runyon than Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra looking sharp and talking cute in the 1955 film version of \"Guys and Dolls.\"")
Special to The TimesWE think we know Damon Runyon, and we might think we're pretty jaded about him, but a fat new anthology, " 'Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" (Penguin: 636 pp., $18 paper), introduced by Pete Hamill and edited and annotated by Cornell professor Daniel...Tags: Social Issues, Marshall Field, San Francisco, New York, Philosophy
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True New Yorker
![About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker piece "The Rats on the Waterfront":](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-08/41093561-14133432.gif "About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker piece "The Rats on the Waterfront\":")
About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker...Tags: Walter Benjamin, Hudson River, Natural Disasters, Dining and Drinking, Book
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Annual Hay Festival is one for the books
The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...Tags: United Nations, Bobby Fischer, Arts and Culture, Game Playing, Martin Amis
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Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
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|| 1. || Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster: $25.95) When a man cleared of a murder charge is found dead, Elvis Cole is called to account. || 1 ||
|| 2. || The Story of Edgar Sawtelle...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Crimes, New York, Chelsea Handler, Crime, Law and Justice
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Meals and wheels in India: The trick to eating is getting to the table in one piece
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Travel EditorThe sharp joy you feel when your plane touches down is short-lived in India as you realize now you must get in a taxi. Goodbye order, upkeep, hygiene, caution. Hello dent king. Hello chaos. On a Sunday evening at Indira Gandhi International Airport in...Tags: Indira Gandhi, Pakistan, Gaming, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, San Francisco
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The case for mistrusting Muslims
THEODORE DALRYMPLE is the author of "Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses."ARRIVING IN BRITAIN by air the day after two men crashed a gasoline-laden Jeep Cherokee into the main terminal at Glasgow's international airport, and a couple of days after two car bombs were discovered in the heart of London, I was surprised by how calm...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Disasters and Accidents, Crimes, World War II (1939-1945), Civil Unrest
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An iconoclast with a sense of humor
![Everyone has a favorite David Sedaris piece. Mine, I don't mind saying, is the essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day," in the collection of the same name. Just like everyone else who claims to love Sedaris (we were unable to procure a single disgruntled reader for this piece), my reasons are personal. Something about trying to learn French, which, if you don't mind, I'd rather not talk about just now.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-06/39666742-06115051.gif "Everyone has a favorite David Sedaris piece. Mine, I don't mind saying, is the essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day,\" in the collection of the same name. Just like everyone else who claims to love Sedaris (we were unable to procure a single disgruntled reader for this piece), my reasons are personal. Something about trying to learn French, which, if you don't mind, I'd rather not talk about just now.")
Everyone has a favorite David Sedaris piece. Mine, I don't mind saying, is the essay "Me Talk Pretty One Day," in the collection of the same name. Just like everyone else who claims to love Sedaris (we were unable to procure a single disgruntled reader...Tags: Apple Pie, George W. Bush, Movies, Eyewear, North Carolina
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'Genius' at work
By Darin Strauss
The daunting thing, of course, is the word itself. You hear "genius," you picture Wile E. Coyote, tinkering alone in the sierras, cobbling together the rocket-powered cycle on which he will catch only trouble.
Sarajevo-born Chicago...Tags: Photography, Eyewear, Crimes, Judaism, Jose Saramago
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Enchanting story
Some of you may recall that famous line from "Ulysses," when Stephen Dedalus, James Joyce's great everyday hero, laments, "History . . . is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Not so lovers of historical fiction, those of us who try to dive...Tags: William Faulkner, James Joyce, Government, Death, Fiction
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His beautiful Britain
![His next project, Hanif Kureishi is saying, will be a fat, juicy novel about a shrink, chockablock with "all the stuff that I'm interested in — you know, race, sex, politics, psychoanalysis, literature, TV."](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-11/26342270.jpg "His next project, Hanif Kureishi is saying, will be a fat, juicy novel about a shrink, chockablock with "all the stuff that I'm interested in — you know, race, sex, politics, psychoanalysis, literature, TV.\"")
Times Staff WriterHis next project, Hanif Kureishi is saying, will be a fat, juicy novel about a shrink, chockablock with "all the stuff that I'm interested in — you know, race, sex, politics, psychoanalysis, literature, TV." The time frame? The 1970s through July...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Democracy, Pakistan, Ken Loach, Movies
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Patrick White's cruel visionaries
![Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps, when the highbrow section of the literary marketplace had turned to the exuberant post-modernism of Salman Rushdie and David Foster Wallace, on the one hand, and the differently stylized realisms of Raymond Carver and Alice Munro on the other. A chapter from one of White's novels, submitted pseudonymously to a list of top publishers in 2007, was rejected by every one of them. White -- who was gay, had a gallows wit and self-consciously cast himself as an outsider, both ahead of his times and behind them -- would have seen the humor in that. He once said that he had wasted his life writing and should have stuck to "learning to cook properly."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-03/45831224-27125620-100133.gif "Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps, when the highbrow section of the literary marketplace had turned to the exuberant post-modernism of Salman Rushdie and David Foster Wallace, on the one hand, and the differently stylized realisms of Raymond Carver and Alice Munro on the other. A chapter from one of White's novels, submitted pseudonymously to a list of top publishers in 2007, was rejected by every one of them. White -- who was gay, had a gallows wit and self-consciously cast himself as an outsider, both ahead of his times and behind them -- would have seen the humor in that. He once said that he had wasted his life writing and should have stuck to "learning to cook properly.\"")
Patrick White, the first great novelist to come out of Australia, was born in 1912, won the Nobel Prize in 1973, died in 1990 and his work promptly dropped from fashion. His style of narrative-driven psychological modernism seemed outmoded, perhaps,...Tags: Patrick White, Alice Munro, Australia (movie), Romance (genre), Raymond Carver
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