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Wally Wood, talented and troubled, was born 83 years ago today
The Hero ComplexThe late, great Wally Wood was born on this date in 1927. Wood took his own life in 1981 at age 54 after years of health problems, addiction and heartache -- he had also lost sight in one eye after...... -
'Gaza' author Joe Sacco may walk away from battlefields: 'I'm kind of at that point'
The Hero ComplexReed Johnson caught up with Joe Sacco and found that the cartoonist and correspondent may be taking a break from his hot-zone reportage. If our present era constitutes a sort of End Times for mainstream media, it's proving to be...... -
LA Times announces 2009 Book Prize finalists
Jacket CopyThe Los Angeles Times has announced the finalists for its 2009 Book Prizes: for the first time, graphic novels will be in competition for an LA Times Book Prize of their own. There are now 10 competitive categories: biography, current...... -
Ridenhour Prize goes, for first time, to graphic novel
Jacket CopyFor the first time, the Ridenhour Book Prize will be given to a graphic novel. On Monday, it was announced that Joe Sacco's "Footnotes in Gaza" will win the $10,000 award, which will be presented in April in Washington, DC....... -
One side fits all
![MOST CALIFORNIANS, including most University of California professors, think that they know the meaning of the term "academic freedom." They assume it's the equivalent of free speech and therefore that it is bestowed on faculty by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Because they conflate academic freedom and free expression, they assume that academic freedom is immutable and eternal and exists without responsibilities.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-08/19167630.jpg "MOST CALIFORNIANS, including most University of California professors, think that they know the meaning of the term "academic freedom.\" They assume it's the equivalent of free speech and therefore that it is bestowed on faculty by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. Because they conflate academic freedom and free expression, they assume that academic freedom is immutable and eternal and exists without responsibilities.")
professor emeritus of pediatrics at UCLA.MOST CALIFORNIANS, including most University of California professors, think that they know the meaning of the term "academic freedom." They assume it's the equivalent of free speech and therefore that it is bestowed on faculty by the 1st Amendment to the...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Israel, Constitutional Issues, National Security, Sociology
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Aging gracefully: Ken Kesey's "Cuckoo" and "Notion"
By Richard Rayner "He had the build of a plunging halfback, with big shoulders and a neck like the stump of a Douglas fir," wrote Malcolm Cowley, who taught Ken Kesey in a writing class at Stanford in 1960. "Chapters of a novel were read aloud in a...Tags: Sports, Jane Austen, Jack Nicholson, Stanford University, Anthony Burgess
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Achingly drawn conclusions
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Partisan Review may have folded in the last year, but alienation and ennui are alive and well in American letters. Ironically, at the same time that comic-book protagonists have earned a new literary respect, they have lost the ability to transform...Tags: Sports, Fiction, University of Texas at Austin, Religious Conflicts, Chicago Bears
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