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'The Great Gatsby' is so right, and Leonardo DiCaprio is so wrong
What's to live for? The price of wine continues to skyrocket, and Warren Buffett is now tweeting. What's next for us culturally? Bingo night at the Louvre? Meanwhile, the criminal justice system insists on hammering on poor Lindsay Lohan. It's only a...
Tags: Education, Lindsay Lohan, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Long Island
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Five books by Chicago authors appearing at Lit Fest
In Thomas Dyja's cultural history of Chicago, "The Third Coast," he writes that in Nelson Algren's day, "being Chicago's Famous Writer was like winning the heavyweight title — there was only one at a time, and you kept the belt for as long as you...
Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Fiction, Nelson Algren, Poetry, Rogers Park
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Revisiting Federico Garcia Lorca in a novel -- and in the writer's own voice
The great poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was already one of Spain's most popular writers when he was executed by right-wing militiamen in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His body has never been found. The shadowy circumstances...Tags: Spain, Book, Wars and Interventions, Poetry, Arts and Culture
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's take on 'Great Gatsby' movie rights? $16,666
F. Scott Fitzgerald made $16,666 -- the equivalent of about $219,529.02 today -- off the movie rights to "The Great Gatsby," according to a calculation by Marketplace. Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," which is set to open nationwide May 10, had a...
Tags: The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013)
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Author Lisa Scottoline talks grief, crabs, podiatry
On paper, Lisa Scottoline is a little intimidating. She's got more than 30 million copies in print of her books, including 20 best-selling novels. She writes a weekly column, with her daughter, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a graduate of...
Tags: Clubs and Associations, Harvard University, Health and Medical Professionals, Lifestyle and Leisure, Colleges and Universities
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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., Ray Bradbury, Abraham Lincoln, Graduation, Class Conflict
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On Education: James Ellroy enthralls GCC
If anyone worried James Ellroy might dumb down the salty language laced throughout his crime novels for an appearance at Glendale Community College this week, they wouldn't have been disappointed. Within 90 seconds of taking the stage, the author of "L....
Tags: Students, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Dallas Willard, Jack Butler, Fredrick McKissack
Dallas Willard Influential Christian philosopher taught at USC for 47 years Dallas Willard, 77, an influential Christian philosopher who taught at USC for 47 years and chaired the philosophy department in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Woodland...Tags: Science and Technology, Tuskegee Airmen, NFL Pro Bowl, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Family
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Pasadena's writer-driven LitFest gets bigger this Saturday
If Los Angeles can have a book festival -- the just-concluded Los Angeles Times Festival of Books -- and even the suburb of nearby Duarte (pop. 21,000) can have one, why not Pasadena? Pasadena is famous for the Rose Parade, Caltech and Jackie Robinson,...
Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Jonathan Gold, Literature
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Hans M. Wuerth: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people'
When on Jan. 30, 1933, then-German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the country's chancellor, it changed German as well as world history. Twelve years later, Hitler ended his own life, but not before millions of victims had perished. Several...Tags: Students, Colleges and Universities, Book, Carl Sandburg, Teaching and Learning
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Revisiting Ginevra King, the Lake Forest woman who inspired 'Gatsby'
Remarkable how two words, scribbled nearly a century ago about a 16-year-old Lake Forest debutante, can evoke a whole country, its hypocrisies and promises, its aspirations and crushing realities. Last week, the University of South Carolina posted...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Lindsay Lohan, Jay-Z, Religion and Belief, Long Island
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To do Thursday: Delray's On the Ave, author Ben Greenman and singer Nicole Henry
Books Ben Greenman: "It's not the most-exciting thing to get up in a bookstore and read a book that you wrote," this Miami-raised writer said in a 2011 interview. "It's not as interesting I would guess — though I've never done it — as...
Tags: Coral Gables, Delray Beach, LeBron James, Entertainment, Stevie Nicks
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