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    Jan 2, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Mystery author Donald E. Westlake dies at 75

    Donald E. Westlake, a prolific mystery writer who won three Edgar Awards and an Academy Award nomination for screenplay adaptation in a career spanning five decades, has died. He was 75.
    Donald E. Westlake, a prolific mystery writer who won three Edgar Awards and an Academy Award nomination for screenplay adaptation in a career spanning five decades, has died. He was 75. Westlake collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack on his...

    Tags: Mel Gibson, Organized Crime, Death and Dying, Culture, New Year's Day

    2. Dec 23, 2008 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  2. Frank Miller bursts from dark-comic supernova

    Orlando Sentinel Movie Critic
    Frank Miller never saw it coming. The icon of comics, guru of the graphic novel, the man who put the darkness in The Dark Knight has made his directing debut, a film adaptation of The Spirit, a 60-year-old comic by his mentor, the late Will Eisner. The...

    Tags: The Spirit (movie), Superman, Batman, Mickey Rourke, Frank Miller

    3. Dec 15, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. The Big Read is a national page-turner

    There was no snow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, but the four sled dogs tethered there seemed acclimated enough. One amiably licked the face of a child in a stroller. The hubbub wasn't much like the Yukon, but the dogs were there to excite interest in Jack London's "The Call of the Wild."
    There was no snow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, but the four sled dogs tethered there seemed acclimated enough. One amiably licked the face of a child in a stroller. The hubbub wasn't much like the Yukon, but the dogs were there to excite...

    Tags: Tom Sawyer, Ray Bradbury, Arts, Culture, Los Angeles

    4. Nov 16, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. The Guide: Words & Ideas

    <h2 style=&quot;listing_title">Words & Ideas</h2>
    Words & Ideas TODAY Greg Hise Aloud at Central Library presents "Ground Truth: How We Talk About Los Angeles and Why This Matters," a conversation between the urban historian and D.J. Waldie, author of "Holy Land." www.aloudla.org. Richard J. Riordan...

    Tags: Books, Metal and Mineral, Reviews, Toni Morrison, Los Angeles

    5. Nov 9, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. See how you did on last week's local literary quiz

    Last week's quiz on Baltimore's literary heritage generated a lot of interest and very few incorrect answers - the most stumbles came on questions 3 and 5. Folks here really know their authors. As a reward, we'll send a new book to all who submitted...

    Tags: Upton Sinclair, Edgar Allan Poe, Ogden Nash, H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Museum of Art

    6. Nov 9, 2008 |Story| Newsday

  6. The Bond we deserve?

    Mystery writer P.D. James once admitted that she had watched actor Roy Marsden play her most famous creation, Adam Dalgliesh, so many times - five different TV miniseries had featured the actor as the poetic New Scotland Yard detective - that Marsden had replaced any other image she had of her phlegmatic Brit.
    Special to Newsday
    Mystery writer P.D. James once admitted that she had watched actor Roy Marsden play her most famous creation, Adam Dalgliesh, so many times - five different TV miniseries had featured the actor as the poetic New Scotland Yard detective - that Marsden...

    Tags: Sean Connery, Minority Groups, Woody Allen, William Powell, Francis Bacon

    7. Sep 23, 2008 |Story| AM New York

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    scott.rosenberg@am-ny.com
    There was a time when author Jonathan Ames unspooled his personal stories in the pages of the New York Press. Now the novelist and man-about-town is lending his personal story – with a healthy dose of fiction – to a new graphic novel, "The Alcoholic."...

    Tags: Tennessee Williams, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Ted Danson, Fiction, Charles Bukowski

    8. Sep 14, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. At the speed of pulp

    Richard Stark created the character of Parker, a nerveless professional thief, all the way back in 1963, in <b>&quot;The Hunter" </b>( University of Chicago Press: 198 pp., $14 paper). Stark was, and is, a pseudonym for Donald Westlake, then a young writer so inventive and wildly fecund that he had no option but to publish under other names. Bucklin Moon, the legendary editor at Pocket Books (Moon wrote novels himself, knew William Faulkner and was responsible for the bestselling success of "Peyton Place"), had commissioned "The Hunter" and loved the book. He asked Westlake for more. At first, Westlake didn't get it. Parker was such a bad guy, he told Moon, an exact compendium of what a lead character should not be, with no quirks, no small talk, no friends, no pets.
    Richard Stark created the character of Parker, a nerveless professional thief, all the way back in 1963, in "The Hunter" ( University of Chicago Press: 198 pp., $14 paper). Stark was, and is, a pseudonym for Donald Westlake, then a young writer so...

    Tags: Mel Gibson, Theft, University of Chicago, Books and Magazines, Colleges and Universities

    9. Sep 7, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Ludacris is the rapper, Chris Bridges is the actor

    MAYBE IT goes without saying, but it's hard to get taken seriously if your name is Ludacris. That's why the rap star, following the path of the Rock, Andre 3000 and 50 Cent, is checking his stage name at the door as he pursues a second career as a Hollywood actor.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    MAYBE IT goes without saying, but it's hard to get taken seriously if your name is Ludacris. That's why the rap star, following the path of the Rock, Andre 3000 and 50 Cent, is checking his stage name at the door as he pursues a second career as a...

    Tags: Chris O'Donnell, Gerard Butler, Guy Ritchie, Heavy Engineering, Nelly Furtado

    10. Aug 17, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Where's Weldon?

    The poet <b>Weldon Kees</b> was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Kees had often spoken of killing himself and had once planned, with James Agee, to write a book on famous suicides; together they came up with a wonderful title, &quot;How-Not-To-and-Why-Not-To-Do-It," though the project came to nothing. Both men were too busy plotting their own deaths.
    The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....

    Tags: Metal and Mineral, Ken Kesey, Graham Greene, Marianne Moore, Fiction

    11. Jan 31, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. SCREEN SCENE: Chicagoan Balaban tackles a rich subject -- plus a guide to art house and 2nd run films

    Tribune staff reporter
    She was called "the richest little girl in the world." No, not Paris Hilton--Doris Duke, heiress of the Duke tobacco and energy fortune. From her birth in 1912 to her death in 1993, Duke amassed and gave away much of her wealth to charity. Also...

    Tags: Illeana Douglas, Gold Coast, Barbra Streisand, Northwestern University, Bill Murray

    12. Jan 19, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Crime Watch: Starting 2008 with a bang

    Stark By Edward Bunker St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 'Stark" is an intriguing release for literary and celluloid pulp noir aficionados alike. The never-published first novel by legendary criminal-turned-novelist-and-actor Edward Bunker (among his roles...

    Tags: Michael Crichton, Central Intelligence Agency, Police, Los Angeles, Mountains

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