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A visit to London's cemeteries
LONDON — What are the first sights you seek when you travel to a new city? The museums? The top restaurants? Or the cemeteries? I choose cemeteries. Although some people think that's weird, I find them a through-the-looking-glass way of...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Arts and Culture, England, John Jackson, Architecture
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Review: Jonathan Franzen's 'Farther Away' wants to bridge distance
Tribune newspapers-------------------- Farther Away Essays Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 322 pp., $26 -------------------- I didn't much like Jonathan Franzen's essay "Farther Away" when I read it a year ago in the New Yorker. A complicated mishmash of a...Tags: Arts and Culture, William Trevor, Literature, Donald Antrim, David Foster Wallace
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On Sunday: Alain Mabanckou, Jonathan Franzen and lumber as history
Jacket CopyIn Sunday books: a talk with UCLA author Alain Mabanckou, plus reviews of the latest by Jonathan Franzen, lumber as history and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and diaries.... -
Tablets: Downloadable classic books are in abundance
![Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as public domain, you can build a library, as I have, with a variety of classic literature, gratis: Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year," Benjamin Franklin's "Autobiography," Kate Chopin's "The Awakening." It's enough to make you believe in the free flow of ideas.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66398707-02175319.jpg "Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as public domain, you can build a library, as I have, with a variety of classic literature, gratis: Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year,\" Benjamin Franklin's \"Autobiography,\" Kate Chopin's \"The Awakening.\" It's enough to make you believe in the free flow of ideas.")
Let's say you're getting, or giving, a new tablet or an e-reader (iPad, Kobo, Nook or Kindle Fire) for the holidays. Here's an idea for what to do with it: Load it first with free books. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, as well as the cultural gift known as...Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Arts and Culture, Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad
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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: Thomas Paine, Ray Bradbury, Canterbury, Benjamin Franklin, Anne Frank
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Accountants: Few changes for tax filers this season
A centuries-old proverb -- stated by writers such as Daniel Defoe and Benjamin Franklin -- observes that taxes are as much a certainty in life as death.
And just as predictably, the January-to-April time frame is a period when millions of Americans...Tags: Personal Income, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Credit and Debt, Benjamin Franklin
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Traditional art by today's fine international masters
![The characteristic that renders Silvana Ambar so impressive as a curator is her ability to attract internationally known artists who are either trained in the finest art academies in the world, or who have demonstrated such self-taught skill that they are credible to "show" with the pantheon of international artists whose work she has assembled.](http://www.glendalenewspress.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-11/57692531-16195358.jpg "The characteristic that renders Silvana Ambar so impressive as a curator is her ability to attract internationally known artists who are either trained in the finest art academies in the world, or who have demonstrated such self-taught skill that they are credible to "show\" with the pantheon of international artists whose work she has assembled.")
The characteristic that renders Silvana Ambar so impressive as a curator is her ability to attract internationally known artists who are either trained in the finest art academies in the world, or who have demonstrated such self-taught skill that they are...Tags: Book, Painting, Mark Twain, Arts and Culture, Bulgaria
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Sam Neill Stranded with 'Crusoe'
Zap2It.comSam Neill, who recently starred in Showtime's "The Tudors," will take on another period piece in his next TV gig. Neill, along with Sean Bean ("The Lord of the Rings") and Joss Ackland ("White Mischief"), have joined the cast of NBC's drama "Crusoe," a...Tags: Merlin (tv program), Jurassic Park (movie), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (movie), Sean Bean, Showtime (tv network)
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Alicia Silverstone Is a 'Bad Mother'
Zap2It.comAlicia Silverstone is going to play a mother on TV. Just not that one. Silverstone, who was courted for a recurring role on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" earlier this season, has taken the lead role in ABC's comedy pilot "Bad Mother's Handbook." NBC,...Tags: CBS Corp., Alicia Silverstone, ABC (tv network), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (movie), Arrested Development (tv program)
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NBC Makes Big Plans for '08-'09
![<a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/friday-night-lights/EP00848358">"Friday Night Lights"</a> is coming back, <a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/the-office/EP00726133">"The Office"</a> is spinning off and NBC is going to try to have mostly original programming all year round.](http://www.zap2it.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-04/37438429-02180344.jpg "<a href="http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/friday-night-lights/EP00848358\">\"Friday Night Lights\"</a> is coming back, <a href=\"http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tv/the-office/EP00726133\">\"The Office\"</a> is spinning off and NBC is going to try to have mostly original programming all year round.")
Zap2It.com"Friday Night Lights" is coming back, "The Office" is spinning off and NBC is going to try to have mostly original programming all year round. Those are some of the highlights from what NBC is calling its "in front" (rather than upfront) schedule...Tags: Heroes (tv program), Merlin (tv program), American Gladiators (tv program), Literature, Barry Levinson
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Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson
![Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a prizefighter, had some small success as a musician and, when the Great Depression of the 1930s hit, roamed the roads and rails, learning the life of the hobo. This crucial experience led to fiction, and to his first novel, "Hungry Men" (University of Oklahoma Press, currently out of print, but with plenty of copies available on Amazon), which in 1933 caused the Saturday Review of Literature to pronounce him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-07/40211098-18143052.gif "Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a prizefighter, had some small success as a musician and, when the Great Depression of the 1930s hit, roamed the roads and rails, learning the life of the hobo. This crucial experience led to fiction, and to his first novel, "Hungry Men\" (University of Oklahoma Press, currently out of print, but with plenty of copies available on Amazon), which in 1933 caused the Saturday Review of Literature to pronounce him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner.")
Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...Tags: Los Angeles, Murder, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Entertainment, Rex Stout
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An outsider splurges his way through L.A.
![Chris Ayres' "Death by Leisure" is a memoir of financial foolishness.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-02/45079842-17115751-17582.gif "Chris Ayres' "Death by Leisure\" is a memoir of financial foolishness.")
Chris Ayres' "Death by Leisure" is a memoir of financial foolishness.
It is also, sadly, an obituary for our late, great city of Los Angeles.
Felled by the burst of a real estate bubble, a victim of mass greed and self-delusion, it is mourned, alas,...Tags: Movies, University of Southern California, Death, Alan Greenspan, Los Angeles
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