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Portsmouth, N.H. blends the old and the new
shawna.vanness@newsday.comOh Portsmouth, my how you've grown. Tucked along New Hampshire's seacoast, Portsmouth is a city that's always had classic New England appeal (think gracious old Colonials, scenic harbors and that small-town, convivial atmosphere). But it's just been...Tags: New Hampshire, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Government, National Government, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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Mirroring JonBenet story
Special to the SunMy Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story Of Skyler Rampike By Joyce Carol Oates Ecco / 562 pages / $25.95 Social commentary has long been the hallmark of the best fiction. Many literary classics, among them Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,...Tags: New Jersey, Fiction, Ceremonies, Crimes, Charles Dickens
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A poison pen
Bloomberg NewsReading "The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" is like watching a cobra devour forest vermin. Even if you don't have much feeling for the prey, you may pause at the thought of what might happen if the monster turned its attention on you. Not that Vidal...Tags: Edmund Wilson, Adolf Hitler, Gore Vidal, Carson McCullers, New York Times
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A Handy Collection Rekindles Respect For Vidal's Brilliant Essays
Special to The CourantGore Vidal is one of America's most pugnacious, intelligent and politically engaged essayists, but until now, the only book of his essays readily available was "United States," a 1,000-page compendium the size of a phone book. This handier volume, neatly...Tags: Justice and Rights, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Roland Barthes, George Bush
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Ethan Canin: Writing As Selfish, Challenging Act
Special to The CourantEthan Canin published his first book of fiction, "Emperor of the Air," in his mid-20s, while a medical student at Harvard. Since then, Canin, now 47, has produced another book of stories and four novels, including his latest, "America America"(Random...Tags: Books and Magazines, Society, West Hartford, Fiction, New York
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Annual Hay Festival is one for the books
The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...Tags: Martin Amis, Festive Event, United Nations, Gore Vidal, Toni Morrison
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1 big, happy marriage?
In the new CBS drama "Swingtown," suburban Chicago parents cavort in front of their children. They pop quaaludes, party to all hours and, worst of all, swap partners. Mike Kelley, the show's creator, says he based it on his parents' shenanigans in the...Tags: Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage, Adults, Mormon
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Deciphering the public persona of author Salman Rushdie
The New York TimesThe written record cannot be trusted in Salman Rushdie's newest novel, The Enchantress of Florence, a story that roams from the red sandstone palace of the great Mughal emperor Akbar to the towered Palazzo in Machiavelli's Florence. One character is...Tags: Midtown, Forests, New York, Eudora Welty, Christianity
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A Novel Born From Photos
South Florida Sun-SentinelA century ago, says award-winning novelist Aleksandar Hemon, the mood of the United States was much like today's: fearful and suspicious, especially toward immigrants. But the perceived threat was not terrorism but anarchism. And the group vilified for...Tags: Fiction, Vladimir Nabokov, Photography, Raymond Carver, Terrorism
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UCLA Live 2008-09 season
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA rare appearance by playwright Edward Albee, the return of Berlin's theater company Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and the West Coast debut of Goran Bregovic and His Wedding and Funeral Orchestra will highlight the 2008-09 UCLA Live season....Tags: Dance, Edward Albee, John McLaughlin, Theater, Music
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