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ABC Lines Up Oprah's 'Legends'
Zap2It.comABC is bringing Oprah Winfrey to primetime during May sweeps, scheduling a special that looks back at the daytime TV titan's "Legends Ball" last year. The hour-long special, appropriately titled "Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball," will feature footage from...Tags: Sidney Poitier, Maya Angelou, Tom Cruise, African Americans, Maria Shriver
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John Updike dies at 76; Pulitzer-winning author
John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76.
Updike's death from lung cancer was...Tags: The New York Times, Periodicals, Adults, Newspaper and Magazine, Reviews
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Special Issue: Favorite Books 2008: Fiction and Poetry
![<b><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-linda-gregg14-2008sep14,0,3281527.story">All of It Singing</a></b>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-12/43714869-04150432.gif "<b><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-linda-gregg14-2008sep14,0,3281527.story\">All of It Singing</a></b>")
All of It Singing
New and Selected Poems
By Linda Gregg
Graywolf
Though these poems -- influenced by the poet's years in Greece -- find Gregg alone in a landscape deserted by a man, she isn't despairing but contemplative, wry, amused.
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A Mercy...Tags: Gaming, Charles Manson, Poetry, Ohio, Florida
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Obama, McCain: Values, by the books
The Swampby Mark Silva So what is the "favorite book of all time'' for Barack Obama and John McCain? Katie Couric was asking last night. "Well, the Bible is the book that shaped me and moved me the most,'' said Democrat......Tags: Katie Couric, Barack Obama, Montana, Ernest Hemingway, John McCain
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'A Jury of Her Peers' by Elaine Showalter
A Jury of Her Peers
American Women Writers
From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Elaine Showalter
Alfred A. Knopf: 608 pp., $30
The title of this, the "first literary history of American women writers ever written," explains Elaine Showalter, comes...Tags: Massachusetts, The New York Times, Carson McCullers, Mark Twain, Book
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Emory Elliott dies at 66; scholar and UC Riverside English professor
Emory Elliott, a UC Riverside professor and leading scholar of American literature who was a pivotal figure in the university's intellectual community, has died. He was 66. Elliott, who was found Tuesday at his Riverside home, died of an apparent heart...Tags: Georgia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Death, Oklahoma, West Point
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'Burn This Book' edited by Toni Morrison
Burn This Book
PEN Writers Speak Out
on the Power of the Word
Edited by Toni Morrison
HarperStudio: 120 pp., $16.99
If Nobel laureate Toni Morrison edits a collection of famous writers on the subject of censorship and the power of the written word,...Tags: Turkey, Censorship, Nadine Gordimer, John Updike, Nobel Prize Awards
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At Akwaaba B&B, curl up with writers
Sun StaffAuthor Walter Mosley's room is dark and mysterious with midnight-blue walls, black velvet drapes and lamps that shine interrogationlike spotlights across the walls. It's a room befitting the popular creator of a series of detective novels. Toni Morrison'...Tags: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Maya Angelou, Hotels and Accommodations, Arts, Fiction
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Real deal in New York State
There are delectable edibles inside the Runcible Spoon café, but visitors must be lured by aroma alone. The display cases are hidden by the picture window. Yes, hidden, because it's covered with handbills. There are various offers for massage therapy,...Tags: Restaurants, The New York Times, Personal Service, Bill Monroe, NBC (tv network)
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Beloved
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 16, 1998 To see "Beloved," all two hours and 52 minutes of it, is to understand at once all its confounding contradictions. Visible is both why it took 10 years to reach the screen and why star and driving force Oprah Winfrey would...Tags: Celebrities, Cinema Industry, Ohio, Kentucky, Thandie Newton
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Tracing African-American heritage
and Dwayne Campbell Staff WritersHere is a look at some of the special collections that will be housed in the new African-American Research Library and Cultural Center. Kitty Oliver Oral Histories collection The Kitty Oliver Oral Histories Collection on Race Change includes manuscripts...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Social Issues, Caribbean Islands, Book, Martin Luther King Jr.
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'The Bluest Eye' blinks when confronting truth
Tribune theater critic"Gagarin Way" at A Red Orchid Theatre; "Permanent Collection" at Northlight Theatre; Big Deal's "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" at Victory Gardens; "I Am My Own Wife" at the Goodman. It's an incomplete list. But it's proof that we have some mighty good...Tags: Ohio, Sexual Assault, Social Issues, Racism, Children
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