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Jay Caspian Kang impresses with 'The Dead Do Not Improve'
-------------------- The Dead Do Not Improve A Novel Jay Caspian Kang Hogarth: 272 pp, $25 -------------------- Jay Caspian Kang's debut novel, "The Dead Do Not Improve," demands to be accepted on its own terms. Moving past the era in which...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Genres, Racism, Literature, Mystery (genre)
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Louis Simpson dies at 89; Pulitzer-winning poet
"A poet," Louis Simpson once wrote, "should wish for enough unhappiness to keep him writing." Simpson may not have wished for trouble, but he kept writing for 60 years — spare, powerful poems about war, infidelity, suburban alienation and other...
Tags: Stony Brook, Vanderbilt University , W.H. Auden, Adultery, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Of pop & poetry
Jay-Z, Sonic Youth, Guns N' Roses, Ghostface Killah, Slayer, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Britney Spears, The New Pornographers, Mobb Deep, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Prefab Sprout, Pink, The Beatles, Van Halen, Big Star, Bob Dylan,...
Tags: Emily Dickinson, Chuck D, Michael Jackson, Entertainment, Guns N' Roses (music group)
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
Patt Morrison Asks: Tiffany Shlain, wired in
Like one of those faster-than-light particles that's gone before you can see it, filmmaker and tech innovator Tiffany Shlain zips from the virtual to the real and back again. The Bay Area native whom Newsweek named one of the women shaping the 21st...Tags: Google Inc., Entertainment, AIDS, Documentary (genre), Invention and Innovation
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Reporter: The best story I would ever write
"How much presidential political trivia do you know?" a Sun reporter asked me shortly after I joined The Evening Sun in 1989. "Not much," I admitted cheerfully. I was a second-generation hire at The Baltimore Sun, a fact I had managed to conceal until...
Tags: The New York Times, Bill Clinton, Politics, Media Industry, Elections
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The Reading Life: Interviewing William Burroughs
Jacket CopyA newly published interview of William Burroughs by his friend Allen Ginsberg reminds book critic David L. Ulin of the time he went to Kansas to talk to Burroughs, a notoriously opaque interview subject.... -
'Mad Men' recap: 'Tea Leaves'
"When is everything going to go back to normal?" - Roger Sterling Raise your hand if you were ready for Fat Betty? Or Don's new secretary being named Dawn? Or (what I'm guessing) is the first-ever Rolling Stones-potential-bean-commercial idea. Yeah,...
Tags: January Jones, Arts and Culture, The Office (tv program), Heart Problems, Entertainment
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Listen to 'First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels' by Allen Ginsberg (1:03)
Daily PressRead by Sam McDonald, features reporter and music columnist. Play audio: if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) { alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js."); } else { AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/...Tags: MP3s, Ken Kesey, MP3 Players
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Henry Miller, Greenwich Village, Norman Mailer, Edward Albee, NPR
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Opening the books on holiday gifts for readers
In these tough economic times, books offer a great return on a gift-giver's investment. Relatively inexpensive, they provide hours of enjoyment for the recipient — if you make the right choice. Never fear: the Book Bag is here to help. Lovers of...Tags: Science, Democratic Convention (1968), Applied Physics, Charles Manson, Bipolar Disorder
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Bob Hare dies at 80; owner of Hermosa Beach coffeehouse that drew Beat artists
When Bob Hare opened his Hermosa Beach coffeehouse in 1958, he called it the Insomniac because it was open until 3 a.m.
He brewed his coffee in a 300-pound dry-cleaning boiler and served it to such high-profile members of the Beat Generation as Allen...Tags: Hermosa, Los Angeles Times, Greenwich Village, Entertainment, Coffee
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