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Staff Q&A: If you could read only one book for the rest of your life, what would it be?
The Baltimore Book Festival is coming up this weekend, so we asked our staff about their worn and dog-eared favorites.
•••• The King James Bible. Four hundred years later, it’s still the most beautiful thing ever written in...Tags: Barbra Streisand, William Shakespeare, Baltimore Book Festival, Vladimir Nabokov, Apple iPhone
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Carson McCullers, Kenzaburo Oe, James Joyce, Fine Artists, Vladimir Nabokov
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Anna Quindlen talks with Printers Row Live
With Mother’s Day on the horizon, it was an early gift for many of author Anna Quindlen’s fans as she communed with her Chicago peeps in these early days of a national book tour for her newly published memoir, “Lots of Candles, Plenty of...
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Palestine for the tourist
"Walking Palestine: 25 Journeys into the West Bank" Interlink, $22.95 Few places in the world are as controversial as Palestine. Indeed, it is rare to see Palestine written about as a travel destination. And yet, in this well-written and fascinating...Tags: Museums, West Bank, Auguste Rodin, Palestine, Edith Piaf
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Exhibit reappraises significance of Vuillard's work
ReutersBy Ellen Freilich NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters) - A new exhibition, the first major show in New York of works by Edouard Vuillard for more than 20 years, reveals the life of the French artist and reappraises the significance of his 20th century work....Tags: Arts, Pierre Bonnard, Nabi, Artists, Fine Artists
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For Alain Mabanckou, breakthrough translates well
In a UCLA classroom one day not long ago, Alain Mabanckou was teaching a course in post-colonial African fiction, which he instructs in his French mother tongue, one of several languages he speaks. With his easygoing yet focused manner, soccer player's...
Tags: Chinua Achebe, Teaching and Learning, Customs and Tradition, Colleges and Universities, Natural Resources
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The poetry of discussion
Our story
Our Sulzer Regional Library Great Books Discussion Group has been meeting for more than 30 years. Annually, we pick a theme to guide our book selections and discussions. This year's theme is morality. Last year we read books dealing with...Tags: Anthony Powell, Seamus Heaney, Clubs and Associations, Mark Twain, Literature
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Book review: 'Karaoke Culture' by Dubravka Ugreši
Los Angeles TimesKaraoke Culture Dubravka Ugresic Open Letter: 324 pp., $15.95 paper Dubravka Ugresic does not like karaoke. That doesn't stop her from trying it, just as her resistance to celebrity doesn't stop her from putting her head through a cutout on a Hollywood...Tags: Europe, Book, Croatia, Radovan Karadzic, Culture
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Gossip: It's alive! It's alive!
Tribune Media Services"THE MOST ARRESTING NEWS, at least as journalists tend to look at the matter these days, is what someone doesn't want known. Hence all the current interest in investigative journalism, which is a dignified phrase for the activity of muckraking, whose goal...Tags: Fidel Castro, Dominick Dunne, Esophageal cancer, Tom Wolfe, Journalism
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Paris glitters with romance, history and possibility
PARIS — Paris is a city where possibilities are endless, expectations are high, and no one doubts that magic can happen.
Anyone who saw Woody Allen's recent homage to the City of Lights, "Midnight in Paris," knows what I'm talking about. Allen's...Tags: Arts, Paris (France), Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Artists
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Prix Goncourt goes to high school teacher Alexis Jenni
Jacket CopyFrance's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, was awarded to first-time novelist Alexis Jenni for his book "L'Art Français de la Guerre" (The French Art of War).... -
The Italy of Shakespeare
Special to Tribune Newspapers"The Shakespeare Guide to Italy: Retracing the Bard's Unknown Travels" Even as the film "Anonymous" questions the authenticity of the Bard from Stratford, a fascinating new book retraces Shakespeare's steps in modern-day Italy. Richard Paul Roe, who...Tags: Movies, Italy, Trips and Vacations, Stratford, Jean-Paul Sartre
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