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College Lit. 101
Special to SunSpotThere are certain staples of college literature classes. Profound novels by Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens and other titans of British and American literature, for example. Books that provide a perspective on class and racial...Tags: Students, Values, Civil Rights, John Updike, Juvenile Delinquency
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Modern life in South Africa
Special to Tribune NewspapersWith the title of this novel, her 16th, Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer once again shows her preternatural capacity to take a slangy catchphrase and make it right to the point. And one that is absolutely appropriate to her novel's milieu and, beyond that,...Tags: Africa, South Africa, Authors, Racism
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This Sunday: Figment, Charles Dickens, Etgar Keret and more
Jacket CopyFigment awarded innovators prize at LA Times Book Awards. Letters by Charles Dickens and short stories by Etgar Keret this Sunday.... -
South Africa's ruling ANC passes controversial secrecy law
World NowSouth Africa's ruling ANC passes law on state secrets amid outcry: South Africa's ruling ANC used its parliamentary majority to pass a controversial secrecy bill which critics say will stifle freedom and have a chilling effect on investigative... -
3 books about banned books
“Burn This Book: Pen Writers Speak Out On the Power of the Word”
Edited by Toni Morrison (2009)This international collection of essays range from writers around the world, from Morrison and John Updike to Orhan Pamuk and Nadine Gordimer,...Tags: Ray Bradbury, Censorship, John Updike, Kern County, John Steinbeck
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Tags: Wole Soyinka, Jorge Amado, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Umberto Eco
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Tags: Susan Sontag, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison
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Summer reading: 60 titles for 92 days
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Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl
Daniel Pinkwater
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pinkwater brings a magical realist perspective to YA fiction in the third volume of the series that begins with "The Yggyssey" and "The Neddiad."
The Clock Without a...Tags: Jon Stewart, Consumers, Gaming, Moody's Corporation, Juvenile Delinquency
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Forgotten treasures of the last century, from 25 writers
Jacket CopyIn 1999, the L.A. Times asked dozens of writers to look back at the prior century and share books they considered lost treasures -- books they loved that had slipped out of sight. Although the authors were formidable -- including...... -
The Hay Festival is underway without Henning Mankell
Jacket CopyThe Hay Festival of literature and the arts, held annually in Hay-on-Wye in Wales, kicked off May 27 and continues through Sunday. The popular festival, which regularly features audiences of 1,500, is sponsored by the Guardian. Authors who've already... -
Summer reading list
Brand XHaving trouble deciding what to read this summer? Let the Los Angeles Times' book editors help with a selection of forthcoming titles. JUNE The Clock Without a Face Gus Twintig (McSweeney's) This fable includes riddles and a real-life treasure hunt:... -
'The O. Henry Prize Stories 2009'
"The world which is being pictured by the story writers of today . . . is, by and large, and vividly, this day's, this troubled minute's, world." So Wilbur Daniel Steele wrote in the introduction to the 1943 edition of "The O. Henry Prize Stories."...Tags: Cynthia Ozick, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, O. Henry
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