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Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster: $25.95) When a man cleared of a murder charge is found dead, Elvis Cole is called to account. || 2 || || 2. || Swan Peak by James Lee...Tags: Montana, Theft, Health and Safety at School, Juvenile Delinquency, Gene Simmons
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'Hollywood Under Siege' by Thomas R. Lindlof
Special to The TimesJuly 24, 2008 There are moments in cultural history, notes Thomas Lindlof in a phrase typical of his fluent but never fussy prose, "of gathered tension." Such a moment came with the 1988 release of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ," an...Tags: Values, Minority Groups, Paramount, Christianity, Wages and Pensions
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Southern California book events
Please send notices to book.calendar@latimes.com or fax to (213) 237-5916 at least 16 days before publication. Please put the event date and author name in the subject line. Book Calendar lists events costing $50 or less. Inclusion isn't guaranteed....Tags: Brighton, Books and Magazines, Barnes & Noble Incorporated, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Ernest Borgnine
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True New Yorker
About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker...Tags: Books and Magazines, Stanley Tucci, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Wetlands, Defense
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Salman Rushdie wins 'Best of the Booker' award
Newsday Staff WriterSalman Rushdie won the Best of the Booker award Thursday for "Midnight's Children," which garnered a Booker Prize back in 1981. The contest, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the prestigous annual U.K. literary prize, now called the Man Booker,...Tags: Ceremonies, Society, Nadine Gordimer, Awards and Prizes, Peter Carey
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Salman Rushdie's in an L.A. frame of mind
Los Angeles TimesThe novelist Salman Rushdie was sitting in a bustling West Hollywood cafe, sipping an iced coffee and discussing the strange fad for surf music in 1960s England -- "a country," he noted, "where there's not much surf" -- and his days renting a room above a...Tags: Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Books and Magazines, Cheshire, Robert Altman
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Salman Rushdie wins Booker competition
Author Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize's best-known winner. Now he is officially the best.
Rushdie's 1981 novel Midnight's Children was named yesterday as the greatest-ever winner of Britain's most prestigious literary award. The book... -
Rushdie's beguiling 'Enchantress' traps the reader in a convoluted plot
By Steven E. Alford Special to The Morning Call''The Enchantress of Florence'' by Salman Rushdie (Random House, $27, 357 pp.) The Enchantress of Florence is, to quote a fictional Siamese king, a puzzlement. This dazzling, complex story of the relations -- between the Mughal Empire and Renaissance... -
This time, Karen Essex tackles 'Stealing Athena'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 14, 2008 Novelist Karen Essex remembers when she first encountered the name Aspasia, a courtesan in ancient Greece, while wading through a copy of Plutarch in graduate school. "Plutarch suddenly starts talking about Aspasia as Pericles' mistress,"...Tags: North Carolina, Books and Magazines, Further Education, Theft, Angelina Jolie
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++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || Weeks on list || || 1. || The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (Random House: $26) A traveler arrives at the Mughal emperor's court with a beguiling tale. || 4 || || 2. || The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...Tags: New York, Murder, Lauren Weisberger, Family, George Bush
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