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Thursday's TV Talk Shows: 'Charlie Rose' studies the brain
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 25 - 31 in PDF format This week's TV Movies The Early Show Harry Smith appears on 'A Prairie Home Companion'; artist Stephen Wiltshire. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today...... -
Tuesday's TV Talk Shows: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visits 'The Jay Leno Show'
Show TrackerThe Early Show The cast of 'Murphy Brown' reunites; Vanilla Ice performs. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Author John Grisham ('Ford County'). (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA Good Morning America Carrie Underwood performs; author...... -
Summer reading: Marcy Dermansky on F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jacket CopyAs summer gets underway, we've created the L.A. Times list of 60 books for 92 days. All of these are new titles, being released in time for summer 2010. At Jacket Copy, we're asking writers and other bookish types about...... -
Mindfulness makes the July 11, 2010, L.A. Times bestseller list
Jacket CopyBuddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's treatise on mindfulness, "You Are Here," marks its fourth week on our nonfiction bestseller list. Thich Nhat Hanh was born in Vietnam 73 years ago, joined a Zen monastery as a teenager and, at age...... -
Drew Brees hits the July 25, 2010 L.A. Times bestseller list
Jacket CopyWe're still several weeks away from the beginning of the football season, but Drew Brees, the New Orleans Saints quarterback, has already made his mark on the nonfiction bestseller list. "Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity,"... -
A rainy National Book Festival whets readers' appetites
Despite a midday deluge, book lovers turned out in record numbers for the ninth annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
The gray morning couldn't dissuade 130,000 people from attending readings and signings on the National Mall...Tags: History, Washington, DC, John Grisham, New York, Maryland
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Door in the Floor director to do Paranormal Activity 2
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel – Frankly My DearTod “Kip” Williams didn't make box office waves his The Door in the Floor, an inventive and beautifully acted John Irving adaptation starring Jeff Bridges. Perhaps he'll have a hit on his hands with the Paranormal Activity sequel. Perhaps not.... -
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: International Military Interventions, Eudora Welty, New Jersey, Wars and Interventions, Rutgers University
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Cultural capitals of Europe
Special to the Chicago TribuneThe newly anointed Cultural Capitals of Europe for 2009 are Linz, Austria, and Vilnius, Lithuania, both a bit off the continent's prime tourist paths. Separated by the Czech Republic and Poland, these central and northern European cities are near...Tags: Frank McCourt, Chicago Tribune, Pablo Picasso, Anton Bruckner, Frank Zappa
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Annual Hay Festival is one for the books
The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...Tags: United Kingdom, Al Gore, Hotels and Accommodations, Game Playing, United Nations
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Writer David Foster Wallace found dead
![David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-09/42338865-13183238.jpg "David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest,\" was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersDavid Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46. Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the...Tags: Jim Carrey, Philosophy, Robin Williams, Colleges and Universities, The New York Times
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Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died. He was 84. One of the last of a...Tags: University of Chicago, Civil Unrest, Weather, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times
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