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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: Jonathan Coe, United Nations, Don DeLillo, Jimmy Carter, Gore Vidal
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Bookworm's classic tale of addiction
Man of the HouseMY NAME IS Chris, and I'm a bookoholic. At stoplights, I sneak peeks at novels I've just purchased. Can't keep my fingers off them. Can't resist lifting their paper hems. Compared with some of the things motorists do -- flossing, phoning, French kissing...Tags: American Express Company, F Scott Fitzgerald, Family, Willie Mays, Philip Roth
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The spirits behind the writers
Horace reports that the 5th century Athenian poet Cratinus, in a light-hearted defense of his famed intemperance, declared, "No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by water drinkers." Cratinus wasn't entirely kidding: Legend says...Tags: Poetry, Dylan Thomas, Tennessee Williams, Alexander Pope, Norman Mailer
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The importance of fleeing Ernest
He's at it again. He won't leave me alone. Can you file a restraining order against an author who's been dead for 46 years? Probably not, you say? Rotten luck. Then I'll just have to find some other way of persuading Ernest Hemingway to get out of my...Tags: Kenilworth, Dominican University, Toni Morrison, Oak Park, Virginia
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Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died. He was 84. One of the last of a...Tags: Mark Twain, University of Iowa, Utopia, Family, Anthropology
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Rob Lowe Has 'A Perfect Day'
If you don't think Rob Lowe enjoys this time of year, consider how often he turns up during the holidays.
Besides seasonal episodes of "The West Wing" and ABC's "Brothers & Sisters," which he recently joined, the actor appeared in the 2002 TV movie...Tags: Celebrity, Family, Religious Festivals, Frances Conroy, Television
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A passion for books
Book lovers like to proselytize. Some of us - the lucky ones - have even managed to find a way to turn pushing books into a living. I've spent the past few weeks (when I wasn't consumed by Harry Potter) reading three very different books by people who'...Tags: Isabel Allende, Books and Magazines, Harry Potter, Anthony Trollope, Books
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"Until I Find You"
Claire Dederer is a writer in Seattle.If you're going to write a novel that's 800 pages long, you'd better have a good reason. You'd better be making an aesthetic or political statement. You'd better be giving us a sweeping overview of society or a generations-long family saga or a disaster....Tags: Books and Magazines, Celebrity Mothers, Julia Roberts, Meg Ryan, Gwyneth Paltrow
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Forbes List - Part One of Two
The ranking of the world's richest people as estimated by Forbes magazine. Listings include rank, name, home country or state, age where known, wealth in billions of dollars and source of the money. Listings where the home country is United States are...Tags: Intel Corp., Satellite and Cable Service, Time Warner Inc., Broadcom Corp., News Corp.
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Readers Will 'Loathe' or 'Love' Final 'Harry Potter'
Zap2It.comAuthor J.K. Rowling was no closer to revealing the fate of the boy wizard Harry Potter at a reading at Radio City Music Hall in New York, but instead made comments about the seventh and final book in the series that will worry readers even more. "Some...Tags: Rupert Grint, Harry Potter, Radio City Music Hall, Fiction, Health and Safety at School
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Don't read too much into this family
STAFF WRITER(R). " Grief is the uncredited character in this black-edged comedy about a philandering husband, mourning wife, displaced daughter and their summer boy. If you haven't read the book, don't. With Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Mimi Rogers. Screenplay by...Tags: John Anderson, Kim Basinger, Connecticut, Movies, Alan Alda
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Farmingdale High School Graduates
OLANREWAJU LARRY ABIOLA ROBERT THOMAS ABRIOLA JONATHAN ANGEL ACEVEDO ALDOUS N. ADVINCULA NICOLE MARIE ALAIMO SHAZAD ALI CHRISTINE ELIZABETH ALLEN PAUL LAWRENCE ALTAMORE JR. JENNIFER BROOKE AMPER CHRISTOPHER W. AMSLER PAMELA JANE ANDERSON...Tags: Michelle Lee, Kevin James, John Murphy, Richard Burton, Robert Thomas
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