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A Colorful Life
Sun reporterWhen Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....Tags: Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, World War II (1939-1945), Willem de Kooning, Poetry
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Discoveries: 'The Physics of Imaginary Objects' by Tina May Hall
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Physics of Imaginary Objects Tina May Hall University of Pittsburgh Press: 160 pp., $24.95 In hard times, as you well know, fewer risks are taken when it comes to potential profit and potential loss. In the publishing world, this means less...Tags: Networking, Fire Island, Dylan Thomas, Book, Edgar Allan Poe
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W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate
Los Angeles TimesReporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Natural Resources, Seamus Heaney, Wildlife, James Wright
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'Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems' by James Schuyler
Other Flowers
Uncollected Poems
James Schuyler,
edited by James Metzee
and Simon Pettet
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 218 pp., $26
The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his...Tags: Kenneth Koch, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, John Ashbery, Poetry
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Edward Albee: Part-time pussycat
Edward Albee, without question our nation's greatest living playwright, lives just the way you might expect him to -- in a rarefied artistic ozone that feels completely at home to him.
African sculptures and 20th century European and American paintings...Tags: Arts, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Edward Albee, Celebrities
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Exquisite strangers
When money will have nothing to do with me,
when the only voice I hear is my own
and all my books are having a great laugh at my expense --
especially Lowell
who doesn't think I'm a man at all --
I go to the café and sit among my amigos.
The woman...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Firearms, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Dance
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Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan dies at 86
Grace Hartigan, an Abstract Expressionist painter once hailed as the leading female artist of her generation who later turned to teaching and led a Baltimore art school to national prominence, died Nov. 15 of liver failure at a nursing home in Timonium,...Tags: Clement Greenberg, Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Timonium, Andy Warhol
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'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' by Michael Chabon
"The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" was first published back in 1988 and immediately tagged a "brat pack" novel, causing its author, the then preposterously young Michael Chabon (he was still only in his early 20s) to be spoken of in the same breath as Bret...Tags: Milan Kundera, Thomas Mann, England, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Genres
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'Poems: 1959-2009' by Frederick Seidel
Poems 1959-2009 Frederick Seidel Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 510 pp., $40 In September 1968, a wide-ranging New York Times lifestyle piece headlined "Central Park's New Era: Fun for Everyone" took the measure of several New Yorkers, including a college...Tags: The New York Times, Ogden Nash, Heart Attack, Cancer, Robert Lowell
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Remembering Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll, who died Friday of a heart attack at 60 in Manhattan, was a legend by the time he was 13. That's when the poet Ted Berrigan took him to visit Jack Kerouac, who took a look at some of Jim's writing and said, "Jim Carroll writes better prose...Tags: Andy Warhol, Suicide, Boz Scaggs, Larry Rivers, Arthur Rimbaud
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Jacket Copy
Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: James Merrill, Central Intelligence Agency, Bars and Clubs, Seamus Heaney, Philip K Dick
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