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'The Men in My Life' by Vivian Gornick
The Men in My Life
Vivian Gornick
MIT Press/Boston Review: 224 pp., $14.95
VIVIAN GORNICK makes you want to read. In her new collection of essays, "The Men in My Life," authors, all great literary men, come alive on the page like great characters,...Tags: Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Saul Bellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Philip Roth
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Reviews: 'Palace Council,' 'The Likeness' and more
The Baltimore SunPALACE COUNCIL, by Stephen L. Carter. Knopf, 517 pp., $26.95. When Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter moved to fiction with 2002's "The Emperor of Ocean Park," the response to its labyrinthine storytelling and plot was immediate and bestselling. Two...Tags: Literature
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Past selections
Spring 2008: "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler. Fall 2007: "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller Spring 2007: "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin Fall 2006: "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri Spring 2006: "One Day in the Life of...Tags: Arthur Miller, Elie Wiesel, Jane Austen, Lorraine Hansberry, Willa Cather
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New York real estate: Chelsea
Special to amNewYorkIt's hard to believe that less than 70 years ago, steam locomotives barreled down 10th Avenue flagged by cowboys on horseback. The West Side Cowboys, as they were called, galloped bravely in front of the train to warn pedestrians of imminent danger,...Tags: Schools, Crimes, Subway Transportation Industry, Natural Resources, Sol LeWitt
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One Book pick has 'The Right Stuff'
Chicago Tribune reporter"The Right Stuff" by author-journalist Tom Wolfe is the 15th selection of the "One Book, One Chicago" citywide book club series, library officials announced at a news conference Thursday afternoon. The movie version of the book will also be featured in...Tags: Chicago Public Library, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, August
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Tony nominee Daniel Breaker's big year
Special to The TimesNew York IN 2005 at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Daniel Breaker was perfunctorily reading a play in which he thought he was being offered a minor role, a character simply called Youth. But 20 pages into the quirky musical "Passing Strange," the actor was...Tags: Music Theater, Schools, Louisiana, Academic Progress, Broadway
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'Palace Council' by Stephen L. Carter
Special to The TimesJuly 8, 2008 It's no surprise that in "Palace Council," the third of Stephen L. Carter's fables about black America's upper crust, success depends not on what you know but whom. With the right connections -- along with the right bloodlines and...Tags: Lena Horne, Books, Billy Dee Williams, Sugar Ray, Harry Belafonte
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Book review: 'Game'
mdickstein@am-ny.com"Game" By Walter Dean Myers 224 pages, $16.99 (HarperTeen) Drew Lawson, the narrator of Walter Dean Myers' newest novel, is a good-humored, 6-foot-5 senior at James Baldwin High School in Manhattan. He has a body built for basketball, and, more...Tags: National Basketball Association, Basketball
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Author Walter Dean Myers answers some Questions
Stranahan High SchoolWalter Dean Myers is the author of dozens of books written for young adults. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American writers five times and one of his books, Fallen Angels, is on the American Library Association's list of frequently...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, International Military Interventions, Schools, Prisons, Teen-agers
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'Havanas in Camelot' by William Styron
In the months before he fell into his final, fatal illness in the fall of 2006, William Styron compiled a number of essays, lectures and occasional pieces that he had written over the previous 20 years of his life. "Havanas in Camelot" is the result of...Tags: Mental Illness, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Truman Capote, Fiction, The White House
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William F. Buckley Jr., 82; author and founder of modern conservative movement
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWilliam F. Buckley Jr., the columnist, novelist, television talk show host and tireless intellectual who founded the modern conservative movement and was its articulate voice for nearly six decades, died Wednesday. He was 82. Buckley, who had been ill...Tags: Parties and Movements, William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan, Fiction, Executive Branch
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Smokers get the boot
Sun reportersThe rain was bad enough. But having to stand in it just to light a cigarette was really the limit. Yesterday morning, hours after a statewide ban on smoking in public places went into effect, several patrons of a Hampden bar called Zissimos, forced...Tags: Sheila Dixon, Civil Laws, Johns Hopkins University, Laws, Cafe Hon
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