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Author's past gives 'Broad Street' a rough-house rhythm
Of The Morning CallThe main character in Christine Weiser's appealing first novel, ''Broad Street,'' is a neophyte musician who forms an all- female band in Philadelphia in the 1990s. Because the author played bass in Mae Pang, a garage-rock act with a regional rep, and ''...Tags: Carl Hiaasen, Books and Magazines, P J Harvey, Music, Music Industry
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Weiner Talks 'Mad Men'
The TV ZoneThis morning's Variety has what I believe to be one of the more exhaustive discussions of "Mad Men" I've seen, and the guy doing the discussing is none other than creator Matthew Weiner. I could send you to Variety,......Tags: Mad Men (tv program), Sinclair Lewis, F Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever
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Writer David Foster Wallace found dead
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: Death and Dying, Book, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Robin Williams, John McCain
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Big events for May
Special to the TribuneThrough Aug. 24: "Walk a Mile in These Shoes"Eugene, Ore., 541-346-3024; natural -history.uoregon.edu, click on Public Programs, then on Event Calendar. Significant soles, from prehistoric to Prefontaine, at University of Oregon. May 1-31: Memphis in...Tags: The Amistad, Jimmy Carter, Festive Event, O. Henry, Beverage Industry
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The importance of fleeing Ernest
He's at it again. He won't leave me alone. Can you file a restraining order against an author who's been dead for 46 years? Probably not, you say? Rotten luck. Then I'll just have to find some other way of persuading Ernest Hemingway to get out of my...Tags: Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, River Forest, Virginia, Kenilworth
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The spirits behind the writers
Horace reports that the 5th century Athenian poet Cratinus, in a light-hearted defense of his famed intemperance, declared, "No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by water drinkers." Cratinus wasn't entirely kidding: Legend says...Tags: Jack Kerouac, Poetry, Sergio Leone, Beverage Industry, Dylan Thomas
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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: Boris Spassky, Books and Magazines, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Don DeLillo
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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: Books and Magazines, Charlie Chaplin, Family, Iowa, Wars and Interventions
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Rob Lowe Has 'A Perfect Day'
If you don't think Rob Lowe enjoys this time of year, consider how often he turns up during the holidays.
Besides seasonal episodes of "The West Wing" and ABC's "Brothers & Sisters," which he recently joined, the actor appeared in the 2002 TV movie...Tags: Calista Flockhart, Frances Conroy, Movies, Family, Fiction
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Readers Will 'Loathe' or 'Love' Final 'Harry Potter'
Zap2It.comAuthor J.K. Rowling was no closer to revealing the fate of the boy wizard Harry Potter at a reading at Radio City Music Hall in New York, but instead made comments about the seventh and final book in the series that will worry readers even more. "Some...Tags: Stephen King, Health and Safety at School, Radio City Music Hall, Fiction, Rupert Grint
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A passion for books
Book lovers like to proselytize. Some of us - the lucky ones - have even managed to find a way to turn pushing books into a living. I've spent the past few weeks (when I wasn't consumed by Harry Potter) reading three very different books by people who'...Tags: Books, Books and Magazines, Graham Greene, Anthony Trollope, Isabel Allende
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"Until I Find You"
Claire Dederer is a writer in Seattle.If you're going to write a novel that's 800 pages long, you'd better have a good reason. You'd better be making an aesthetic or political statement. You'd better be giving us a sweeping overview of society or a generations-long family saga or a disaster....Tags: Celebrity, Books and Magazines, Julia Roberts, Celebrity Mothers, Cinema Industry
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