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Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future
Jacket CopyEsquire returns to its roots with a new short fiction series while making it new, e-book style.... -
'Pacific Standard Time': Exhibitions to keep an eye on
![A few of the 60-plus shows have already opened, but "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980" officially gets launched Oct. 1 and 2 with a trio of major surveys opening at the Getty, MOCA and LACMA. Here's an annotated list of some of the more intriguing exhibitions. <i>Start your engines.</i>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64196889-14210440.jpg "A few of the 60-plus shows have already opened, but "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980\" officially gets launched Oct. 1 and 2 with a trio of major surveys opening at the Getty, MOCA and LACMA. Here's an annotated list of some of the more intriguing exhibitions. <i>Start your engines.</i>")
A few of the 60-plus shows have already opened, but "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980" officially gets launched Oct. 1 and 2 with a trio of major surveys opening at the Getty, MOCA and LACMA. Here's an annotated list of some of the more...Tags: Arts and Culture, Richard Nixon, Standards, MAK Center, The Getty
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'Rich Boy' by Sharon Pomerantz
![Though a friend likened "Rich Boy" to "The Great Gatsby" in its depiction of a young man living under the illusion that money can buy happiness, for me it evoked "An American Tragedy," Theodore Dreiser's great dramatic novel about a young man's struggle to the top rung of the American social ladder.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63092447-08115048.jpg "Though a friend likened "Rich Boy\" to \"The Great Gatsby\" in its depiction of a young man living under the illusion that money can buy happiness, for me it evoked \"An American Tragedy,\" Theodore Dreiser's great dramatic novel about a young man's struggle to the top rung of the American social ladder.")
Literary editorThough a friend likened "Rich Boy" to "The Great Gatsby" in its depiction of a young man living under the illusion that money can buy happiness, for me it evoked "An American Tragedy," Theodore Dreiser's great dramatic novel about a young man's struggle...Tags: Sharon, Politics, Elizabeth Taylor, Human Interest, Ronald Reagan
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Chicago Literary Hall of Fame holds benefit
Special to Tribune NewspapersTV reporter Janet Davies, wearing a beige jacket and leopard boots, stood behind a wooden podium in a darkened room overlooking Millennium Park on October 12. "Remember, like Chicago voting, bid and bid often," she said, encouraging an audience of...Tags: Arts and Culture, Mike Royko, Jane Austen, Millennium Park, Ravenswood
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'The Artist': Critics speak up to praise silent film
24 FramesIn a time when CGI spectacle and dizzying 3-D effects dominate the box office, an unlikely new silent black-and-white movie — by a French filmmaker, no less — is captivating critics. "The Artist," written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius,... -
Local author wrote about Chicago financier
Writer Theodore Dreiser lived in Glendale twice. During his first sojourn here, around 1920, he started on a book but became frustrated and departed for New York to do more research. The result, “An American Tragedy” was published to great...Tags: Chicago Loop, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), University of Chicago
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Elizabeth Taylor's death evokes local memories
![<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>SO YOU KNOW</strong></span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-03/60377219-24101837.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\"><strong>SO YOU KNOW</strong></span>")
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Elizabeth Taylor’s star blazed brightly in Danville during the summer of 1956, when she came to town with fellow stars Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin and Rod Taylor for the filming of the Civil War epic “Raintree...Tags: Family, Tennessee Williams, Eva Marie Saint, Edward Albee, Arts and Culture
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Chicagoland book club
One thing to know about our club: The Chapter 1 book club is celebrating its 25th year as a book-discussion group. Our club was started in 1985 by a group of moms who had young children in elementary school and wanted an intellectual diversion from...Tags: Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure, Human Interest, Jane Austen, Literature
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A verdict, but not the end
Tribune staff reporterWill Orpet was guilty. That was clear to the newspapers as his trial began in the summer of 1916, and it appeared equally clear to the people of Lake County: It took 23 days and more than 1,200 interviews to find a dozen men who said they could view the...Tags: Ghost Hunters (tv program), Newspaper and Magazine, Lake Forest College, Wyoming, Los Angeles
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Witt: Banning books, not ideas
The banning and suppression of books has been going on for several hundred years.
Of course, prior to the invention of the Gutenburg press in the middle of the 15th century, books were relatively rare and reading was limited to royalty, the upper...Tags: Communist Party of China, William Faulkner, Daniel Defoe, Canterbury, James Joyce
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Are Marilyn Monroe's musings worthwhile?
Jacket CopyThe much-photographed, much-filmed Marilyn Monroe has been dead since 1962. So does she have anything new to tell us? A little bit. "Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes and Letters by Marilyn Monroe" is just what it says it is, according to...... -
Robert Hellenga explores fertile ground in 'Little Egypt'
Literary editorThe plains and prairies of Willa Cather's “My Antonia” and cities of Theodore Dreiser's “Sister Carrie” have come to define the Midwestern literary tradition, while “Little Egypt,” the triangular tip of southern...Tags: Italy, Willa Cather, Weddings, Egypt, Animals
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