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A rumination on books not yet read
Sometimes I wonder how many books I've read in my four decades. Thousands, anyway — maybe tens of thousands — since the first one, about a choo-choo, when I was not quite 3. Right up to Anne Carson's “Autobiography of Red,”...Tags: Poetry, Arts and Culture, Saul Bellow, Literature, Lord Byron
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At Orlando Museum of Art: Jimm Roberts' photos capture Florida's cultural history
To stand in the main gallery at Orlando Museum of Art is to be surrounded by greatness. Playwright Edward Albee, of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" fame, looks out from one wall; artist Robert Rauschenberg from another. There's "Tales of the South...
Tags: Book, Orlando Museum of Art, Awards and Prizes, Carl Hiaasen, Arts and Culture
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Review: 'The Way the World Works' maps Nicholson Baker's mind
-------------------- The Way the World Works Essays Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster: 319 pp., $25 -------------------- Nicholson Baker's new book, "The Way the World Works," is a miscellany: a collection of 34 essays originally published in...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Libraries, John Updike, Arts and Culture, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Chicago's Feltre School
Chicago's Feltre School offers discussion of the great works, in a no-commitment setting.
One thing to know about our book club: The discussions are intelligent without being fussy, and fun without being frivolous. Author we'd most like to meet: Yann...Tags: Zora Neale Hurston, John Steinbeck, Tennessee Williams, Clubs and Associations, Dining and Drinking
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The Saturday Read: 'Bitter in the Mouth' by Monique Truong
![In "The Writing Life," Annie Dillard advises would-be writers to find their bone, the thing that drives them to write, and to work as closely to that bone as possible. Dillard also instructs writers — with another corporeal metaphor — to work as closely along the nerve as possible.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-08/55809978-28101056.jpg "In "The Writing Life,\" Annie Dillard advises would-be writers to find their bone, the thing that drives them to write, and to work as closely to that bone as possible. Dillard also instructs writers — with another corporeal metaphor — to work as closely along the nerve as possible.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn "The Writing Life," Annie Dillard advises would-be writers to find their bone, the thing that drives them to write, and to work as closely to that bone as possible. Dillard also instructs writers — with another corporeal metaphor — to...Tags: Minority Groups, North Carolina, Family, Gays and Lesbians, Salt
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David Shields recommends 26 shifting nonfictions
Jacket CopyDavid Shields, the author of "Reality Hunger," couldn't help but notice the buzz when a new biography of Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski, above, said he invented some of his nonfiction. It's the latest in a series of small turmoils about...... -
In 'Lark and Termite,' Jayne Anne Phillips continues to explore human vulnerabilities and the lasting effects of war on memory
![Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst, the missing piece. "Black Tickets," Jayne Anne Phillips' first collection of stories, published in 1979, was, for more than one earnest English major, such a book.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-01/44390859-08151351.gif "Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst, the missing piece. "Black Tickets,\" Jayne Anne Phillips' first collection of stories, published in 1979, was, for more than one earnest English major, such a book.")
Falling in love with a writer requires commitment; the long haul, thick and thin. They get old, you get old. The relationship waxes and wanes. Most readers can recall times of perfect synchronicity -- when the book was the necessary enzyme, the catalyst,...Tags: Richard Brautigan, Death, Disasters and Accidents, Health, John Irving
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Chatting with authors Janet Fitch and Denise Hamilton
Administrator: Welcome to our online chat with Janet Fitch and Denise Hamilton. raul: hi Denise, how do you research your books? ellen Ulken: Janet, At what stage in life did you know you wanted to be a writer? Denise Hamilton: I was a Los Angeles...Tags: Death, Iowa, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Carl Hiaasen, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Two Marriages: Novellas' by Phillip Lopate
Two Marriages
Novellas
Phillip Lopate
Other Press: 272 pp., $24.95
THE publication of new fictions -- the first in more than 20 years -- by one of our most reliable men of letters is an occasion worth marking and measuring. Phillip Lopate is best...Tags: Death, Cobble Hill, Marriage, H.L. Mencken, Penis
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All you need is love
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEVERY so often, a novel comes along that describes a relationship with such thoroughness that you almost feel better about love. Maybe, just maybe, it's a worthy use of our time alive. Annie Dillard's "The Maytrees" is such a novel. It is also a reservoir...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Death, Bodies of Water, Rivers, Arts and Culture
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'Will You Take Me as I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period' by Michelle Mercer
Will You Take Me as I Am Joni Mitchell's Blue Period Michelle Mercer Free Press: 240 pp., $24.99 When Joni Mitchell thinks about confession, two things come to mind: witch hunts and Catholic priests. To be held up as the exemplar of confessional...Tags: Neil Young, Kanye West, Freedom of the Press, Leonard Cohen, Dan Fogelberg
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Stone. Water. Insect. Fish. Sunlight.
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I
Nick looked down into the pool from the bridge. It was a hot day. A kingfisher flew up the stream. It was a long time since Nick had looked into a stream and seen trout. They were very satisfactory. As the shadow of the...Tags: Richard Brautigan, Health, Mother's Day, Wesleyan University, Sports
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