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25 literary resolutions for 2012. What's yours?
Jacket Copy25 authors and editors share their literary resolutions for 2012. What's yours?... -
Emily Dickinson and "these modern literati"
Jacket CopyA charming collection of Emily Dickinson's letters shows her father teasing her about liking "modern literati" -- modern, circa 1854.... -
John Leverence's guide to giving a great Emmy acceptance speech
Gold DerbyOne of the highlights of the 2010 Emmys' Creative Arts ceremony was John Leverence's acceptance of the TV academy's Syd Cassyd Founder's Award. It's about time Leverence received a trophy. He is the king of Hollywood kudos. No one knows awards better, and... -
Storybook living in the Moody sisters cottages
L.A. at HomeIt's pretty much impossible to lead with any other photo than this: As Christine Hoehner heads up the stairs of her cottage, her dog, Emily Dickinson, sticks around for the photo op. Lucky girl. She lives in a Moody sisters...... -
Garrison Keillor envisions radio (but not bookish) retirement
Jacket CopyGarrison Keillor plans retirement from radio, but not books.... -
Climbing the bestseller list: Kate Atkinson's 'Started Early, Took My Dog'
Jacket CopyKate Atkinson's latest Jackson Brodie mystery is climbing the L.A. Times bestseller list.... -
One in a million
Jacket CopyThe book "One Million" by New Yorker editor Hendrik Hertzberg is dotty. It's got thousands of dots -- tens of thousands, 5,000 dots per page for 200 pages. For the math-impaired, yes, that's exactly a million. The dots aren't doing...... -
Derek Bermel with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Culture MonsterNothing quite haunts some of today’s composers like the disturbing story of Béla Bartók’s last five years. In 1940 he fled Nazi-influenced Budapest and moved to New York, where he lived in illness, obscurity and poverty. Young children threw... -
Literary letters for auction at Sotheby's on Thursday
Jacket CopyDozens of Mark Twain's letters and writings, from his early days in San Francisco until the end of his life, form the centerpiece of an auction taking place Thursday at Sotheby's in New York. An autographed manuscript of his "A...... -
The lure of writers' houses
Jacket CopyThe website M + E -- run by author Emma Straub and her husband, Michael Fusco -- is selling a new series of four literary posters, each with an illustration of a writer's home (with address). The illustrations by Aislinn...... -
Nonagenarian wins $100,000 poetry prize [updated]
Jacket CopyThe substantial $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize will be awarded to Virginia-based poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, who was born in 1920. Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine, cited the strong reserve in Taylor’s poems and praised their "sober and clear-... -
Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Minority Groups, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bernard Malamud
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Original site for Emily Dickinson topic gallery.
