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    May 10, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  1. The Time I Talked to Maurice Sendak

    Maurice Sendak’s home phone number is hidden under a wall in my house. It’s like a secret from one of his books, a dream in code, a treasured key which unlocks memories.
    Maurice Sendak’s home phone number is hidden under a wall in my house. It’s like a secret from one of his books, a dream in code, a treasured key which unlocks memories. About a decade ago, a publicist from New Haven’s International...

    Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Concerts, Carole King, Arts and Culture, Tony Kushner

    2. May 30, 2012 |Story| Associated Press
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    Tags: Democratic Party, The New York Times, Graduation, Yale University, Fringe Festival

    3. Apr 15, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Bay Theatre brings Emily Dickinson to life in season finale

    In her end-of-season program note, Bay Theatre Company co-founder and artistic director Janet Luby refers to "the astonishing success of Bay Theatre's 2011-2012 season," and promised that this season's final production would do justice to the preceding...

    Tags: Concerts, Helen Hayes, Hart Crane, Arts and Culture, Walt Whitman

    4. Jan 6, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
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    6. Jan 12, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. An invisible man, live on stage

    Can you do a play about an invisible man? About an African-American whom others simply refuse to see? <a class="runtimeTopic" href="#">Ralph Ellison</a>, it seems fair to surmise, thought probably not. Not well, anyway. Not something that would do justice to the moment, shortly after the end of World War II, when a mostly impecunious writer, an African-American visitor to Vermont, wrote five words on a piece of paper &mdash; "I am an invisible man" &mdash; without knowing why or where it might lead him.
    Can you do a play about an invisible man? About an African-American whom others simply refuse to see? Ralph Ellison, it seems fair to surmise, thought probably not. Not well, anyway. Not something that would do justice to the moment, shortly after the end...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Malcolm X, Herman Melville, University of Chicago, Movies

    7. Oct 26, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  7. School reading: James Prosek on Elizabeth Bishop

    Jacket Copy
    James Prosek was just 19 when his first book, 1996's "Trout: An Illustrated History," was published. It included original watercolors he'd painted of North American trout as well as the stories he'd learned about them. This fall, he turns his......
    8. Mar 7, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  8. The Majestic Silver Strings: A fresh spin on old country featuring Buddy Miller, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz

    Pop & Hiss
    Two of the more idiosyncratic facets of the guitarist summit meeting of Buddy Miller, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot and Greg Leisz on “Buddy Miller’s The Majestic Silver Strings” album center on Ribot, the instrumentalist extraordinaire who...
    9. Apr 15, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  9. Theater review: 'The Merchant of Venice' at the Broad Stage

    Culture Monster
    F. Murray Abraham has a splendid fluency with the language of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," now playing at the Broad Stage....
    10. Nov 11, 2009 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. "A Truth Universally Acknowledged" edited by Susannah Carson

    "A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen"
    Literary Editor
    "A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen" Edited by Susannah Carson Random House, 320 pages, $15 This is a collection for both newcomers to the charms of Jane Austen and those long-time "Janeites," what Rudyard...

    Tags: Rudyard Kipling, Amy Heckerling, Lionel Trilling, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Austen

    11. Dec 24, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. PASSINGS: Barbara L. Packer

    Barbara L. Packer, 63, a retired UCLA English professor who specialized in 19th century American literature and was recognized as an authority on Ralph Waldo Emerson, died Dec. 16 at her Los Angeles home, according to the university's English department. She had cancer.
    Barbara L. Packer, 63, a retired UCLA English professor who specialized in 19th century American literature and was recognized as an authority on Ralph Waldo Emerson, died Dec. 16 at her Los Angeles home, according to the university's English department....

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Margaret Fuller, Stanford University

    12. May 30, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Book review: 'Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim' collected by Mark Cohen

    Missing a Beat
    Missing a Beat The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim Edited and with an introduction by Mark Cohen Syracuse University Press: 296 pp., $29.95 We hear a disproportionate amount from the writers who "made it." The ones who hustled, stroked the right...

    Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Reviews, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Book

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