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Biblioracle: Saluting the Bildungsroman
I've been spending my holiday teaching break trying to finish a manuscript for a young adult coming-of-age novel I'm working on, which has me thinking a lot about coming-of-age novels, which has me wondering if all good novels aren't coming-of-age novels....Tags: Fiction, John Updike, Jeffrey Eugenides, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Worth their weight in words
“Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things” only slightly exaggerates. It is 100 stories about 100 things, though only a handful of the stories are extraordinary. In fact, fewer are memorable. Not that it matters;...
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Bookmark: A couple of seriously good reads
Some marvelous novels vigorously refute the idea that so-called "literary fiction," the serious stuff, must be a tedious chore to read, like a bad-tasting medicine whose healing properties are somehow confirmed by the fact that you want to spit it out,...Tags: Scotland, Julia Keller, Entertainment Events, Literature, Arts and Culture
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Dark passages: Hungry for justice
Special to the Los Angeles TimesToday's news stories abound with accounts of men who do unspeakable things to women. Sadly, this is not a new phenomenon, nor will such events go away. But whether it's the sex charges leveled against Wikileaks front man Julian Assange, ABC News' Lara...Tags: Julian Assange, Norway, Lara Logan, Domestic Violence, Crimes
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a Dining@Large reading group?
Dining@LargeWell, I've been thinking about it. Over the weekend, post your thoughts about starting up a Dining@Large reading group. This Stewart O'Nan book, Last Night at the Lobster, is a recent favorite of mine. And at 160 pages, it's a...... -
The Dining@Large reading group
Dining@LargeSo, let's do it. From time to time, anyone who wants to will join in a discussion of novel, memoirs, popular history, or what have you related to food and dining in general and the world of restaurants in particular....... -
The D&L Reading Group -- thread starts next Thursday
Dining@LargeI will open up the discussion thread for the first D@L Reading Group book -- Stewart O'Nan's Last Night at the Lobster --next Thursday, November 11.If you haven't yet started, or even put your hands on a copy, don't worry...... -
The Reading Group discussion thread
Dining@LargeWe now begin our discussion of Stewart O'Nan's Last Night at the Lobster, the first entry in the Dining@Large Reader's Group. My hope is that a few of you will grab the reins and go with this. I thought of this......Tags: Restaurants, Clubs and Associations, Red Lobster, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Book review: 'Emily, Alone' by Stewart O'Nan
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEmily, Alone A Novel Stewart O'Nan Viking: 255 pp., $25.95 Stewart O'Nan's books are not about poverty, life's crises, gross injustice or family drama; in fact, there's very little drama in his works. He has become a spokesperson — in modern...Tags: Book, Los Angeles, The New York Times, Crosswords
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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Kirsch Award To Pay Tribute To Maxine Hong Kingston
Contact: Nancy Sullivan, 213-237-6160, nancy.sullivan@latimes.comNEW YORK, (February 28, 2008) – Maxine Hong Kingston has been named the winner of the 28th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes' Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. The award was announced tonight along with the names of the 45 finalists for...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Fiction, Biography (genre), Bell (Los Angeles, California), Society
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David Gordon Green, mainstream director?
Special to The TimesAFTER years of cutting his teeth in independent film, David Gordon Green is one of the big boys now. The youthful 32-year-old writer and director, who still happens to wear braces, says he no longer gets carded at bars. But his newfound maturity pales...Tags: Entertainment, James Franco, Dario Argento, Film Festivals, Sports
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They all disappear
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, just more than 2,000 children are reported missing every single day. The vast majority of them are found, sometimes quickly, but for the families and loved ones of those who are not, a canvas of unanswered...Tags: Missing Persons, Ohio, Murder, Grateful Dead (music group), Crime (genre)
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