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Marc Maron chats about writing, babies and 'Attempting Normal'
Comedians publishing humorous autobiographies -- quirky retellings of the boozy nights on the road, the broken hearts and broken (sitcom) dreams -- seems a rite of passage these days, along with the requisite podcast, Twitter account and digital comedy...
Tags: Entertainment, Netflix Inc., Twitter, Inc.
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A book for Mother's Day? The mystery of my mother's reading habits
No two readers are alike. No two mothers are alike. And the only way to really find out what might be a good book to get your mother for Mother’s Day is to ask her what she likes to read. My own mother’s reading habits have always been a bit...
Tags: Golda Meir, David Foster Wallace, Mother's Day, Anne Frank, Guatemala
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Katie Leclerc stars in Beverly Lewis “The Confession”
Channel Guide MagazineKatie Leclerc stars in Beverly Lewis The Confession: The Amish return to the spotlight in the Hallmark Channel original film The Confession (premiering Saturday, May 11 at 9pm ET). The film is an adaptation of best-selling author Beverly Lewis’... -
Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: The Washington Post, USA Today, Nobel Prize Awards, Teaching and Learning, Chinese Restaurants
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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: Teaching and Learning, Long Island, Lindsay Lohan, Education, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013)
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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: Poetry, Edgar Allan Poe, Nelson Algren, Literature, 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: Poetry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Spain, Book, Wars and Interventions
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LeaLA aims high and wide in 2013 Spanish book festival
The organizers of the LéaLA Spanish-language book fair want to make the annual event in Los Angeles one of the biggest book gatherings in the United States. The schedule announced Tuesday for this year’s event makes the organizers’ ambitions...
Tags: Mexico, Book, Literature, Isabel Allende, Arts and Culture
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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: Lifestyle and Leisure, University of Pennsylvania, Clubs and Associations, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice
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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, Graduation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Yale University
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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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Washington County Public Schools Education Foundation distributes $5,923 in minigrants
julieg@herald-mail.comBrian Ansel and Kris Pearl thought they were going to spend Tuesday morning observing and helping another teacher work with her students at Bester Elementary School, but the pair was surprised when a group of people walked into the classroom with...Tags: Science and Technology, Students, Services and Shopping, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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