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There are 25 books in the list of the Los Angeles Times 2009 fiction favorites. It includes some authors you might expect -- Orhan Pamuk and Alice Munro -- as well as new talents like Maile Meloy, above.
LA Times 2009 fiction favorites
" The Angel’s Game " by Carlos Ruiz ...
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There are 25 books in the list of the L.A. Times' 2009 nonfiction favorites. The books include a story of the search for the painter Tiepolo, the tapes of a president, communities in disaster, crows, Columbine, corruption and California, and many more.
L.A. Times' 2009 nonfiction favorites ...
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The PEN Center USA literary awards, held Wednesday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, made for an odd intersection of worlds. Book people are somewhat less glamorous than movie people -- more glasses, lower heels, generally less camera-ready -- but at this event, they're cheek and jowl. Two ...
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Elmore Leonard
Brad Listi started the website The Nervous Breakdown in 2006 as a place for writers to come together, to discuss and support -- and promote-- each others' work. The scope of the site has changed: It now reads more like a magazine than a message board, and the reading is good. It showcases ...
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On Friday, Christie's will auction Cormac McCarthy's battered
blue Olivetti typewriter , with proceeds going to the...
Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit the author supports. "I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not ...
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Cormac McCarthy's typewriter and its predecessors
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It's a mad venture, looking into the future
of e-books. Which is why we here at Jacket...
Copy are letting Sarah Rotman Epps and James McQuivey from Forrester Research carry the ball. They've blogged their 10 predictions for e-books and e-readers at ...
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Prognosticating e-books in the new year
Students at a continuation high school in Southern California connect to Jimmy Santiago Baca's 2001 memoir "A Place to Stand," their teacher Jean Gillis writes at La Bloga . Because her teenage students aren't reading at grade level -- they might be reading at anywhere from a second- to ...
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Townspeople in a village in Somerset, England, now
have a new library -- a decommissioned classic red...
phone booth (locals there would call it a phone box). It's more of a location for swapping books than an official library -- there are no late ...
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Where Superman gets books? Library opens in old phone booth
There's something happening in Vegas right now that we can talk about -- the art exhibit of Harlequin Romance covers on exhibit at Paris Las Vegas. The Times wrote about 'The Heart of a Woman: Harlequin Cover Art 1949-2009" this weekend: Visitors walk through a doorway next to one of ...
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Harlequin
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Rick Moody, the author of "The Ice Storm,"
is publishing a short story on Twitter, 140 characters...
at a time. Moody took up the challenge when it was suggested by the innovative new magazine Electric Literature , which is publishing "Some ...
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Author of 'The Ice Storm' tries storytelling on Twitter
From Nov. 26 to 29, 2008, 10 gunmen wielded guns, grenades and terror in the Indian city of Mumbai. Acting in five teams of two, they killed 163 people and wounded 300 others in attacks on sites including a train station, two elite hotels, a Jewish center, a hospital and the city's streets. ...
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In Sunday's paper, we look inside the new
Louis Armstrong bio " Pops: A Life of Louis...
Armstrong ." Author Terry Teachout was the first to chronicle Armstrong's life with full access to the 600-plus tapes the musician recorded. The tape ...
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Louis Armstrong: the life of a master, inside and out
The Cold War made for strange partners -- including the CIA and a well-known magician named John Mulholland. In 1953, Mulholland was hired by the C.I.A. to adapt his craft for its agents. The documents he produced, long thought destroyed, were discovered in 2007 by two C.I.A. historians, who ...
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Secrets
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On this day of thanks, I'd like to
say thank you for an American writer I still...
treasure. Oh, you can complain about his romanticism, about his self-destructive alcoholism, about his inability to get beyond his initial massive success with "On ...
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Thanks, Jack Kerouac
If you're an author, be careful what you leave lying around. In the event of your death, anything might make it to print. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was a pile of index cards, now published as " The Original of Laura " -- it's so faithful to the original that part of the book are reproductions ...
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Michael Crichton
The Pirate
Decades ago, real life became the stuff of novels -- everyone knew "The Bell Jar" was taken from Sylvia Plath's own experience, but nobody wanted to call it a memoir. Flash forward to James Frey and reverse it -- he couldn't sell "A Million Little Pieces" as a novel, but it got snapped up ...
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Not far from Edwards Air Force Base lies California City. In 1958, a developer envisioned it as the state's next big metropolis behind Los Angeles and San Francisco, bought thousands of acres and laid out a grid of streets in the desert. Now, the place is home to just about 10,000 -- several ...
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Many of our Thanksgiving traditions are slightly twisted versions of what really happened. There wasn't any turkey served; the first one was probably in Texas, not Massachusetts; Pilgrims didn't dress in black or wear tall hats. But if our myths aren't really based in history, we ...
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A valuable collection of children's literature, including Alice's
own copy of "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice...
Found There," a first edition of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Beatrix Potter's personal copy of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" ...
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Alice, Beatrix and Harry: Valuable children's literature ...
The man behind the modern pop-up book, Waldo "Wally" Hunt, has died . Hunt, a Los Angeles advertising executive, sold his company and traveled to New York, where he became disenchanted. He was charmed by a pop-up book imported from Czechoslovakia. "I knew I'd found the magic key," he ...
