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    Jan 11, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. In books, Baltimore beats Denver

    As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bal-baltimore-vs-denver-pictures-20130110,0,2688274.photogallery" target="_blank">cities compare</a>. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down.
    As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down. The East Coast city had...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Festive Events, Denver Broncos, Authors, Pulitzer Prize Awards

    2. Sep 5, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Save the dates for Baltimore and Washington book festivals

    September's a big month for bibliophiles, as Baltimore and Washington stage their book festivals. And this year, for the first time in recent years, the festivals don't fall on the same weekend, allowing readers to catch both packed slates of authors and events.
    September's a big month for bibliophiles, as Baltimore and Washington stage their book festivals. And this year, for the first time in recent years, the festivals don't fall on the same weekend, allowing readers to catch both packed slates of authors...

    Tags: Patricia Cornwell, Michael Tucker, Junot Diaz, Mount Vernon, Festive Events

    3. Jul 23, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Demise of Borders recalls the end of Remington's

    The news that Borders, the nation's second-largest book chain, is giving up the ghost and closing its doors after 40 years came as no real surprise to anyone. The Wall Street Journal observed last week that Borders' exit was the "'first major casualty of...

    Tags: Ogden Nash, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Books and Magazines, James Joyce, Charles Street

    4. Jul 22, 2001 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Here, homecomings are commonplace

    Special to The Sun
    For Karen Blue, moving to the Village of Oakland Mills in Columbia was a homecoming. After growing up in the community, she left at age 20 and lived in a variety of neighborhoods in the Baltimore area. There were Woodbine, Baltimore City, New...

    Tags: Carrollton, Children, Carl Sandburg, Examinations, Family

    5. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. New releases: 'Hemingway & Gellhorn' glimpses literary icons

    Hemingway & Gellhorn HBO, $19.97; Blu-ray, $24.99 The cartoonish excesses of writer Ernest Hemingway get blown up to the size of a Roy Lichtenstein painting in this very strange HBO movie. Nicole Kidman plays war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, who...

    Tags: Hayley Atwell, Serena Williams, Venus and Serena (movie), Damian Lewis, Ernest Hemingway

    6. Jan 11, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. 'The Orchardist' inspires a rumination on the role of place in literature

    Hi, my name is Alan, and I'm drunk with landscape.
    Hi, my name is Alan, and I'm drunk with landscape. I've just finished teaching a writing workshop in how to deploy setting in modern fiction, mainly, the modern novel, so I couldn't easily get the subject off my mind in any case. And now, just as the...

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Saul Bellow, Hudson River, Manufacturing and Engineering, New York City

    7. Jul 20, 2012 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  7. Emmys 2012: 'Mad Men,' Breaking Bad,' 'Modern Family' Earn Noms

    LOS ANGELES -- Stop us if you've heard this one before: HBO dominated the Emmy nominations announced Thursday morning, picking up 81 nods for viewer favorites such as "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones" as well as comedy newcomers "Girls" and "Veep."
    Los Angeles Times
    LOS ANGELES -- Stop us if you've heard this one before: HBO dominated the Emmy nominations announced Thursday morning, picking up 81 nods for viewer favorites such as "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones" as well as comedy newcomers "Girls" and "Veep."...

    Tags: The Colbert Report (tv program), Edie Falco, Photography, George Harrison, Kathryn Joosten

    8. Jul 19, 2012 | Zap2It

  8. “Mad Men,” “American Horror Story” lead Emmy nominations

    Channel Guide Magazine
    AMC's Mad Men (pictured) and FX's American Horror Story both earned 17 nods apiece as the nominations for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today. Television Academy Chairman and CEO Bruce Rosenblum presided over the nominations, along with...
    9. Aug 12, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. The Sunday Conversation: Martin Amis talks 'Lionel Asbo,' money

    Martin Amis, once dubbed "fiction's angriest writer," continues dissecting the absurdity and excesses of postmodern society in his latest novel, "Lionel Asbo: State of England," which reaches bookstores Aug. 21. The British novelist, 62, recently moved from London to Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife, American writer Isabel Fonseca, and their teenage daughters, Clio and Fernanda.
    Martin Amis, once dubbed "fiction's angriest writer," continues dissecting the absurdity and excesses of postmodern society in his latest novel, "Lionel Asbo: State of England," which reaches bookstores Aug. 21. The British novelist, 62, recently moved...

    Tags: Saul Bellow, World War I (1914-1918), Lotteries, Mitt Romney, Tampa

    10. May 21, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Esquire, adding fiction ebooks, goes back to the future

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    Esquire returns to its roots with a new short fiction series while making it new, e-book style....
    11. Jul 3, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway

    For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises" in high school and had admired its spare portrayal of 1920s expatriate life. But I'd also thought of it as more than a little stilted, even melodramatic in its way.
    Los Angeles Times Book Critic
    For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...

    Tags: Albert Camus, Los Angeles Times, Jack Kerouac, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver

    12. May 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Most interesting comment thread of the day, courtesy Helen DeWitt

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    Novelist Helen DeWitt takes issue with the romantic idea that a writer is a person who has to write....
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