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Review: "Every Boy Should Have a Man" by Preston Allen
Genre mash-ups are de rigueur these days. Of course, writers like Margaret Atwood have been tight-roping the misty border between literary fiction and speculative fiction, fantasy and mystery for years. But a new outcropping of younger upstarts, such as...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Columbia College Chicago, Theft, Authors
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Poet Laura Treacy Bentley says publishing novel is 'dream come true'
Name: Laura Treacy Bentley City in which you reside: I live in Huntington, W.Va., but I divide my time between the beautiful mountains of West Virginia and McHenry, Md., in Garrett County. Day job: I’m the book editor for WV Living magazine. I...
Tags: Republic of Ireland, Truman Capote, Arts and Culture, Book, Dublin (Ireland)
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'The Sopranos' Leads WGA List of Top TV Series
VarietyThe Writers Guild of America on Sunday unveiled its list of the "101 Best Written TV Series of All Time," topped by HBO's "The Sopranos." The mob drama created by David Chase (pictured above right with "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini) led the list...Tags: Everybody Loves Raymond (tv program), Arts and Culture, Tina Fey, The Dick Van Dyke Show (tv program), Dwayne Johnson
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The Big Read announces $1 million in grants for 2013-14
The National Endowment for the Arts announced $1 million in grants for the Big Read projects taking place across the U.S. in 2013-14. The Big Read was launched in 2005 to help create one-city-one-book-style projects; for each title on its list, it...
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LETTER: Time Will Come For Mockers Of Elderly
Regarding "Elderly Not 'Liked' On Facebook" [May 28, Connecticut]: When I first read Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" it seemed so far-fetched. Seashells whispering in your ear? And now there's Bluetooth. A whole wall of television? We are there as well....Tags: Social Media
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Counting down to Lit Fest
(This selection is edited for clarity and length.) Tom Acitelli What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Who is an author you'd like to meet, dead or alive?...
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Unrest, Conflicts and War, Graduation, Authors, Abraham Lincoln
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Fantagraphics’ ’50 Girls 50′ pays tribute to EC Comics sci-fi legacy
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesREVIEW Golden-age publisher EC Comics’ rise and fall was tied to its horror titles “Tales From the Crypt” and “The ...... -
Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary Los Angeles
Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times' books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more than two dozen books set in and around L.A., as...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Ernest Hemingway
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Smith: Selling the idea of opportunity
My first real job out of college was at a wholesale hardware company. I started out as the sales manager, though at 25 I knew nothing about sales or managing. The scuttlebutt around the office was that the owner hired me because he thought I was a...Tags: Dentistry and Dental Health, Colleges and Universities, Marketing
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Lessons from a literary master
By Julia KellerHe was the J.K. Rowling of his day, writing sprightly, adventure-driven, insanely popular books ostensibly aimed at kids but which sober and responsible adults — if backed against a wall with the cold tip of a pirate's cutlass jammed against their...Tags: Arts and Culture, Authors, Newspaper and Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Literature
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Mother-Son Book Club
We are a group of mothers and sons in Riverside who have met since summer 2002. Our sons were all friends entering fourth grade, and one of the moms suggested starting a book club for the boys. We all thought she was crazy because we didn’t think...
Tags: Michael Crichton, Mark Twain, Honus Wagner, Lifestyle and Leisure, Orson Scott Card
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