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Kindle sells itself—or its devotees will
I like to read books the old-fashioned way, with a pen in my hand, paper I can spill stuff on, and a page corner I can crease when I can't find the receipt that's been marking my place. But I keep hearing about the Kindle, an electronic "reading device"...Tags: Tribune Tower, Amazon.com Inc., Starbucks Corporation, Books and Magazines, Amy Bloom
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Music's literary side
During the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, singer-songwriter Joe Henry participated in a panel on the connection between music and the written word. For our summer reading issue, we asked Henry to elaborate on this question and to write about how...Tags: Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Tom Waits, Ray Charles, Van Morrison
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'Our Story Begins' by Tobias Wolff
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories Tobias Wolff Alfred A. Knopf: 380 pp., $26.95 The novel, as a form, has a number of advantages over its narrative rival, the short story. It's a long-term companion. It offers a sustained relationship. You can...Tags: Flannery O'Connor, William Trevor, Medical Specialization, Death and Dying, Raymond Carver
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How Families Get From Here To There
Special to The CourantToward the end of Jhumpa Lahiri's mournful, deeply satisfying new collection of stories, two Bengali lovers visit a museum in an Italian town founded by Etruscrans. There, amidst dusty sarcophagi, they discover shelves lined with terra cotta urns...Tags: William Trevor, John Freeman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Book, Scranton
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Bret Easton Ellis, two decades beyond 'Zero'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn his 1985 breakout novel, "Less Than Zero," Bret Easton Ellis, then all of 21 years old, created young, jaded Angelenos who just didn't care about anything: They recounted cocaine scores and semi-anonymous sex in the same tone with which they lamented...Tags: Reviews, Edmund Wilson, New York Times, Celebrity, Roland Barthes
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'Fred Claus'
gene.seymour@newsday.comTo call "Fred Claus" the cinematic equivalent of fruitcake may be too generalized a slur, unfairly taking in those who are to fruitcakes what Alice Munro is to short fiction. This particular brand of fruitcake promises an extra kick in the presence of...Tags: Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, Movies, Kathy Bates, Vince Vaughn
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Lady ink slingers dominate Oscar noms
THIS year's nominations for original and adapted screenplay ask the question why -- as in, why do we need a Y chromosome? In an unprecedented surge of recognition for female creative forces, the academy chose to nominate four women for individual...Tags: Academy Awards, Movies, Ronald Harwood, Diablo Cody, Joel Coen
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Sense and sensibility
The Senator's Wife By Sue Miller Knopf, 306 pages, $24.95 Sue Miller's eighth novel and third within the past six years, "The Senator's Wife" is a leisurely, meticulously constructed tale that builds inevitably, even relentlessly, to a striking, life-...Tags: Delia's Incorporated, Radio Industry, Marriage, National Government, Family
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A look at lady ink slingers
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tamara Jenkins has some mixed feelings about the remarkability of this year's female-flush original screenplay category.
"It's a complicated feeling to be singled out because of gender. Sometimes you bristle under the...Tags: Minnesota, Academy Awards, Culture, Cinema Industry, Mental Illness
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Christie out of seclusion, phobic about awards season
Associated PressJulie Christie jokes that she comes out of seclusion to do a movie about once a decade. And just about as often, the Academy Award-winning actress earns an Oscar nomination for the effort. The same could happen with Christie's remarkable performance as a...Tags: Academy Awards, Celebrity, Diseases, Demographics, Julie Christie
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'Away From Her'
jan.stuart@newsday.comIn Sarah Polley's beautiful directing and screenwriting debut, "Away From Her," Julie Christie plays a self-aware and piercingly articulate woman of a certain age named Fiona. In an early scene, Fiona rises from a dinner table to pour wine for her...Tags: Celebrity, Olympia Dukakis, Celebrity Mothers, Virginia, Diseases
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Two quiet films need to be noticed
STAFF CORRESPONDENTThe Sundance Film Festival's prevailing image is that of a launching pad for first-timers, a place for the newly minted movie to take its first flight into the unknown darkness of a screening room or auditorium. But apparently, Sundance has also become a...Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Diseases, Television, Julie Christie, Simon Cowell
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