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Geoff Johns heads to ‘Trinity War,’ bids farewell to ‘Green Lantern’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesFor a man about to start a war, Geoff Johns seems calm. Upbeat, even. Upstairs from Golden Apple Comics in ...... -
Scottish writers lead the way in producing popular crime fiction
As proudly reported in Scottish Life magazine, a British think tank called the New Economics Foundation recently determined that the Scots are the happiest people in Britain, boasting some of the most impressive "wellbeing" scores anywhere. Exactly why...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Grateful Dead (music group), The New York Times, England, Book
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Jay Stream Middle School Book Club
One thing to know about our book club We are the Jay Stream Middle School Book Club. We started in 2003, and we all are, or have been, staff members at Jay Stream Middle School in Carol Stream. -------------------- This piece first ran in Printers...
Tags: Middle Schools, Schools, Zora Neale Hurston, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Review: 'Amity & Sorrow' by Peggy Riley
The trials and perils of adolescence have been a central theme in much American literature ever since Holden Caulfield beheld the world and pronounced it sick and corrupt. Amity and Sorrow, the misfit sisters who are at the heart of Peggy Riley's first... -
The art of becoming Edna O'Brien
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. Edna O'Brien, who retells her provocative life in "Country Girl," represents a classic Irish case. A novelist whose promise found...
Tags: Book, Literature, Republic of Ireland, Arts and Culture
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"Yellow Moon" at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe ★★
Like several theater artists with connections to bonnie Scotland, David Greig seems to have the golden ticket of the moment. This thrilling scribe — perchance you saw his grand piece "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" last fall at the Chicago...
Tags: Salt, Celebrities, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Arts and Culture
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2013 Summer Book Events
The Hartford CourantHear famous writers discuss their work, listen to the poet who spoke at President Obama's inauguration and learn about the publishing industry at spring and summer books events this year. Here are a few: >>CAPA-U: The 10th annual CAPA-U Professional...Tags: Barack Obama, Dyslexia, Awards and Prizes, Book, Crime, Law and Justice
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What happened when Baz Luhrmann moved 'The Great Gatsby' to Australia
F. Scott Fitzgerald's ambition for "The Great Gatsby" was scarcely modest: "Something new — something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned," the novelist wrote to his editor of his plans for the 1925 novel. Tobey...
Tags: Central Park, Australia, Men in Black III (movie), Carey Mulligan, Nassau County
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'You're Fat' Comment To Diane Smith Sparks Friendship, Book
The Hartford CourantIn the 1980s, a Massachusetts college student named Mika Brzezinski made regular late-night grocery store trips so she could binge on junk food, which she'd follow with days of fasting and running. At about the same time, in Connecticut, then-WTNH TV...Tags: The New York Times, Weight, MSNBC (tv network), Healthy Diet, Addiction
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Maureen Johnson gesticulates to describe her latest book [Video]
Bestselling author Maureen Johnson stopped in at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books video booth to talk with me about her new book, "The Madness Underneath," the second in the series that began with "The Name of the Star." The popular young-adult...
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Revisiting Ginevra King, the Lake Forest woman who inspired 'Gatsby'
Remarkable how two words, scribbled nearly a century ago about a 16-year-old Lake Forest debutante, can evoke a whole country, its hypocrisies and promises, its aspirations and crushing realities. Last week, the University of South Carolina posted...
Tags: Justin Bieber, Long Island, Elton John, Princeton University, Carey Mulligan
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Come to papa: Ernest Hemingway's papers return from Cuba
Records from the estate in Cuba where Ernest Hemingway wrote many of his most famous books have been digitized and brought to the United States, the Associated Press reports. The materials will be held at Boston's John F. Kennedy Library, which holds a...
Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, U.S. Embassy, Ernest Hemingway, Cuba
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