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Kevin Starr, known for his “Americans and the California Dream” series, in a 2009 file photo from the Los Angeles Times (MCT) Asking Kevin Starr a question is like turning on a fire hose. First th...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:41
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In a comment on the art of reviewing and interpreting literary works, the English writer G.K. Chesterton wryly notes that “either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else cri...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:40
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Nothing Gold Can Stay By Ron Rash (Ecco) When a prisoner on a chain gang is sent to the nearest farmhouse to fetch water in the backwoods of North Carolina, author Ron Rash sets the scene for a st...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:39
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July 1914: Countdown to War By Sean McMeekin (Basic Books) A Sarajevo chauffeur took a wrong turn, and Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip had his chance to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and h...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:38
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What would it be like to dance on the moon? There, things weigh six times less than they do on Earth. Imagine how far you could go with every jump and leap ― and how light your body would feel. Th...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:32
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NEW YORK (AP) ― Thanks to the printed word and the moving image, Salman Rushdie has recaptured the worst part of his life and relived one of the best. Last fall, the 65-year-old author published the...
Updated : 2013.04.23 19:51
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Seoulites were offered free children’s books and brochures a day before Tuesday’s World Book Day. In celebration of World Book Day on April 23, the state-run Publication Industry Promotion Agency ...
Updated : 2013.04.22 19:40
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Korean author Han Kang’s 2007 novel “Vegetarian” has been translated into Spanish and published in Argentina, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea said. The sensual novel tells the story...
Updated : 2013.04.18 20:00
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Like a stoned Forrest Gump, Dennis Hopper always managed to be where the action was in American pop culture history. When James Dean was inventing the Angry Young Man in “Rebel Without a Cause,” H...
Updated : 2013.04.18 19:58
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (AP) ― After a feverish month of inspiration, Colleen Hoover had finally fulfilled her dream of writing a book. With family and friends asking to read the emotional tale of f...
Updated : 2013.04.18 19:56
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A Cold and Lonely Place By Sara J. Henry (Crown) Most of us thrive on human contact ― spouses, friends, family. But for others who have been wounded by the people they love most, isolation in a c...
Updated : 2013.04.18 19:56
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The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power By Victor S. Navasky (Knopf) Few people afflict the comfortable more savagely and effectively than political cartoonists. In “T...
Updated : 2013.04.18 19:55
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NEW YORK (AP) ― Adam Johnson’s “The Orphan Master’s Son,’’ a labyrinthine story of a man’s travails in North Korea, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, restoring a high literary honor a ye...
Updated : 2013.04.16 19:44
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Scratchgravel Road By Tricia Fields (Minotaur) “ScratchgravelRoad”has a gritty heroine, a rugged border landscape and extreme Texas weather ― pretty much everything you’d expect in a mystery f...
Updated : 2013.04.11 19:56
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All That Is By James Salter (Knopf) Before becoming a full-time writer, 87-year-old James Salter was a fighter pilot, and he has written often and well about flying. “All That Is,” Salter’s fi...
Updated : 2013.04.11 19:56
