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Novelist Norman Mailer Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNovember 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...Tags: George W. Bush, Sonny Liston, Unrest, Conflicts and War, D H Lawrence, Allen Ginsberg
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John Updike, Pulitzer-winning Author, Dies
NEW YORK -- John Updike, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction whose novels and short stories exposed an undercurrent of ambivalence and disappointment in small-town, middle-class America, died Tuesday. He was 76. Updike's death from lung cancer...Tags: Toni Morrison, Fiction, Book, Los Angeles Times, New York
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Salinger, Pynchon & Co.: When writers are recluses
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey wait like pilgrims, queuing silently, bearing volumes for inscription and awaiting a chance to touch the hem of his garment. They're not Franciscans approaching Assisi but earnest readers rushing bookstores and cultural temples for word -- wisdom,...Tags: Terrence Malick, Cults and Sects, Greta Garbo, Herman Melville, Ralph Ellison
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Hitting a nerve
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterConsumerism and the counterculture collide hard on Telegraph Avenue, where political posters fill the space between chain stores. Three kids in hooded sweatshirts crouch on the sidewalk: "Can you spare some change ... for pot?" Away from the clamor,...Tags: Terry Zwigoff, Dave Eggers, Students, Entertainment, Charles M. Schulz
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