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A visit to Mark Twain's Hannibal, Mo.
![It was long after dark when Henry Sweets brought me to Hannibal's Old Baptist Cemetery, "a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-06/54579791-26000604.jpg "It was long after dark when Henry Sweets brought me to Hannibal's Old Baptist Cemetery, "a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind.\"")
Los Angeles TimesIt was long after dark when Henry Sweets brought me to Hannibal's Old Baptist Cemetery, "a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western kind." No moon. Ragged weeds, crumbling gravestones. We tried to tread lightly, but it had been raining, and mud grabbed...Tags: Slavery, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Arts, Arts and Culture, William Faulkner
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What's on these authors' summer 2011 reading list
Los Angeles TimesHere at Book Review, we know what looked good to us on the summer bookshelves, but we couldn't help but wonder what some of our favorite authors were looking forward to tossing in their travel bag or bringing out to the backyard or the beach for one of...Tags: Bill Bryson, Philip Roth, Arts and Culture, Julia Sweeney, New York
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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
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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.... -
Alvin Lawson dies at 80; UFO researcher questioned beliefs of alleged abductees
Alvin Lawson, an English professor at Cal State Long Beach who spent decades studying unidentified flying objects and questioning the beliefs of people who said they had been abducted, has died. He was 80.
Lawson died Sept. 8 at Western Medical Center in...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Crimes, Arts and Culture, Orange County (California), Music
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The God Squad: Let hope lead away from loneliness
Question: I'm divorced and never remarried. My parents are deceased and my two children are grown. I recently relocated and am trying to make connections, but that's much harder to do later in life. I'm lonely and have even started thinking this will be...Tags: Helen Keller, Social Issues, The Happiest News!, Human Interest, Charity
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"Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds" by Lyndall Gordon
!["Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds"](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-11/56768463-17105459-187105.jpg ""Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds\"")
Special to the Tribune"Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds" By Lyndall Gordon Viking, 472 pages, $28 Even though fewer than a dozen of Emily Dickinson’s 1,789 poems were published in her lifetime, her family and friends in Amherst,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Adultery, Internists, Poetry, Biography (genre)
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Our Laguna: Who would you invite to Christmas dinner?
The holidays are a time to extend hospitality — to show there is room at the inn. Here is a sampling of with whom Laguna folks would most like to invite share their Christmas or Hanukkah dinner, given the choices of anyone living or dead, fact or...Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley, Albert Einstein
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Book review: 'Swans' by Mary Oliver
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSwan Poems and Prose Poems Mary Oliver Beacon Press: 96 pp., $23 "What can I say that I have not said before?" the poet Mary Oliver wonders on page 1 of this, her 20th collection. "So I'll say it again./The leaf has a song in it." She is a little...Tags: Los Angeles, Music, Entertainment, Poetry
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Discoveries: 'Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries' by Helen Vendler
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDickinson Selected Poems and Commentaries Helen Vendler Harvard University Press: 530 pp., $35 I'm just a regular reader, you say. I read for pleasure. Why should I read the commentaries of critic Helen Vendler on the "epigrammatic, terse, abrupt,...Tags: Los Angeles, China, Education, Alice Munro, Harvard University
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