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Revisiting culture critic's essays
Tribune NewspapersIn the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...Tags: Popular Music, Literature, New York University, Jerry Lewis, Marvin Gaye
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Revisiting culture critic's essays
Tribune NewspapersIn the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...Tags: Popular Music, Literature, New York University, Ray Charles, Jerry Lewis
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Voices Not Of This World
Special to The CourantFans of fantasy, science fiction and horror know well the name George R.R. Martin. But they may not realize just how prolific he is until they pick up the three volumes of "Dreamsongs" and stagger home under the weight. The print book, from which these...Tags: Fiction, Book, Christopher Lee
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Book of beasts
By Nick Owchar
Like many an excellent chronicler of village life, Lauren Groff gives us early in "The Monsters of Templeton" (Voice/Hyperion: 364 pp., $24.95) an ensemble view of the citizens of Templeton, a place very closely modeled on Cooperstown, N....Tags: Book, Biology, Italo Calvino, Christmas, Rube Goldberg
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Resurrecting Leslie Fiedler, a high priest of pop culture
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...Tags: Norman Mailer, Literature, New York University, Rock and Roll Music, Greenwich
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Wrestling With Ghosts And Monsters
Special to The CourantOn the day Wilhelmina Upton comes home in disgrace, a dead monster surfaces in Lake Templeton: Think the Loch Ness monster in upstate New York. This is the frame for Lauren Groff's charming but loosely hung first novel. There are monsters here, but...Tags: Wesleyan University
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The sage of Sag Harbor
Tribune's cultural criticUp and up and up they inched, the sailors climbing to the ship's mastheads, because as every good whale-hunter knew, the masthead was the center of the world. "If, after a three, four, or five years' voyage she is drawing nigh home with anything empty...Tags: John Steinbeck, George Bush, New York University, Toni Morrison, Mental Illness
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East, for Eden: Lake George in New York's Adirondacks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBolton Landing, N.Y. The Adirondacks, land of long lakes and last Mohicans, do their big business in the summer, when upstate New York gets its meager annual allotment of warm weather. The forest-fringed waterways and low mountains leap to life as...Tags: Tourism and Leisure Industry, Ethan Allen, Canoeing and Kayaking, Georgia O'Keeffe, Woody Guthrie
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Many theories for 'Ismail Ax'
What might "Ismail Ax" mean? One theory spreading across the Web speculates that it comes from a story in the Quran, the holy book of Islam, about Ibrahim and his son, Ismail. In Islam, Ibrahim is the father of the prophets and, upset that people in his...Tags: Moby, Virginia Tech, Islam, Ismail Ax
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Rubicon rocks (minus the rattles)
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWith the 2007 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, Natty Bumppo has traded his buckskins for some designer jeans. Yes, Natty Bumppo, hero of James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales," the great woody prose of which has prompted many an undergraduate to...Tags: Auto Trends, Computing and Information Technology, Daimler AG, Radio Industry, Satellite Technology
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