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The glorious, oft-overlooked, short story
"By excluding almost everything," Steven Millhauser recently wrote about the short story, "it can give perfect shape to what remains."
In his dazzling story, "The New Structure," which Harper's published earlier this year, Millhauser effectively leaves...Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Halloween, Monsters, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Literature
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'The Valley-Westside War' by Harry Turtledove
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLOS ANGELES, the playwright and performance artist Luis Alfaro once said, is "like a bunch of little border towns, and you have to cross over those borders. If you figure out the dynamics of each little border town, you can get along well." He's right...Tags: Dorothy Parker, San Pedro, Los Angeles, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Philip Roth
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'First Stop in the New World' by David Lida
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 7, 2008 How many times have you picked up a memoir by some American or European nomad living the good life abroad, and wanted to toss the entire volume out the window after about, oh, two paragraphs? You know the type of book: a self-congratulatory...Tags: Octavio Paz, Walter Benjamin, Diseases, Manhattan (New York City), Crimes
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'The Reel Stuff' by Brian Thomsen and Martin H. Greenberg
Special to The TimesJune 12, 2008 In "The Reel Stuff," Brian Thomsen and Martin H. Greenberg have gathered an eclectic collection of fantasy and horror stories gone Hollywood that offers an opportunity to examine how these speculative tales were adapted for the screen. The...Tags: Wolfgang Petersen, Book, Movies, Miguel Tejada, Christopher Lee
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Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson
Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Rex Stout, Robert Altman, Philip Roth, Health and Safety at School
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The importance of being Alanis
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterALANIS MORISSETTE has felt heartbreak before, as anyone who's listened to her ripped-from-life songs knows. But last year's split with her fiancé, actor Ryan Reynolds, turned out to be the big one. "I think it's the straw that breaks the camel's back,"...Tags: Alanis Morissette, Celebrity, Music, Los Angeles, Music Industry
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L.A.'s 'Blade Runner' plans
Life imitates art in ways too strange to imagine. Take, for example, two recent proposals for downtown redevelopment. Developer Sonny Astani wants to hang a 14-story animated billboard on the side of the condominium tower he's building at 9th and...Tags: Ruhollah Khomeini, Minority Groups, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Movies, Fencing
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Leaping forward
By Ed Park Looking backward, briefly: It went unremarked that 2007 was the year when the weirdness of time dilation hit Sgt. William Mandella. Battling the far-flung Taurans meant interstellar travel via "collapsars" (black holes); two years of army...Tags: John Barth, Injuries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, Armed Forces
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Will Spielberg take a walk on the wild side?
Special to The TimesSteven Spielberg, who at 22 was hired by Universal to a long-term contract, started out his career as the teacher's pet of the Movie Brat generation. With the unveiling of his first Indiana Jones escapade in 19 years today at Cannes, he's proffering yet...Tags: Tom Cruise, Anne Frank, Poetry, David Lean, Martin Scorsese
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The essentials: Top ten science fiction and fantasy books
amNY.comBelieve it or not, some of the best and most thought-provoking contemporary writing can be found in the science fiction/fantasy section of your local bookstores. Here are books and collections to get you started. J.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings...Tags: Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov, Harry Potter, Fiction
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Those far-out Robinsons are a trip
Special to NewsdayAmong those enchanted, fairy-dusted people who make entertainment for children, there must be many moments of existential doubt and crises of conscience: Why not just recycle? How jaded can 7-year-olds be? Isn't it all new to them? One considers this...Tags: John Anderson, Charlie Chaplin, Painting, Movies, Mel Brooks
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'Paprika'
gene.seymour@newsday.comWhether viewed as science-fiction in the manic, shape-shifting tradition of Philip K. Dick or as a hyperbolic analogue to the movie industry, "Paprika" is like little else you regularly experience in animated or live-action movies. Those for whom the...Tags: Satoshi Kon, Movies
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