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Book review: 'The Confession' by John Grisham
Los Angeles TimesIf only life moved along at the same clip as a John Grisham novel. Beginning writers should study him the way budding composers study Brahms or Pachelbel. He is a master at pacing, even if that doesn't always make up for some of his shortcomings. His...Tags: John Grisham, Crimes, Rape, Brain, Crime, Law and Justice
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Indie Focus: 'Night Catches Us' examines the Black Panthers circa 1976
Recent films such as "Carlos," "The Baader Meinhof Complex" and "Che" have looked at the blowback and aftermath of the revolutionary adventures of the 1960s and '70s across Europe and South America. With "Night Catches Us" writer-director Tanya Hamilton...Tags: Anthony Mackie, Activism, History, Leonard Bernstein, The Baader Meinhof Complex (movie)
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Through a lens
It goes without saying, though I'll say it anyway, that Charles Osgood is my favorite photographer, but it was nice to see many other great Tribune photographers gathered Tuesday in the Tower, talking about their work in a new book, "Chicago in Season."...Tags: Photography, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Human Interest, Nelson Algren, Washington (U.S. state)
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PASSINGS: Salvador Jorge Blanco, Robin White
Salvador Jorge Blanco
Former president of Dominican Republic
Salvador Jorge Blanco, 84, a former Dominican Republic president who was convicted of corruption in a decision later overturned by an appeals court, died Sunday at his home in Santo Domingo,...Tags: Health, California, Litigation, Communist Party of China, Heart Failure
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"The Privileges: A Novel" by Jonathan Dee
Special to the Tribune"The Privileges: A Novel" By Jonathan Dee Random House 272 pages, $25 The late Mrs. William F. Buckley Jr.—that splendid, long-reigning demigoddess of New York social life-- would have had little patience for Adam and Cynthia Morey, the charmed and...Tags: Education, William F. Buckley, Manhattan (New York City), New York, Insider Trading
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'Hitch 22' by Christopher Hitchens
Hitch-22
A Memoir
Christopher Hitchens
Twelve: 448 pp., $26.99
With the possible exception of Tom Wolfe and Maureen Dowd's, Christopher Hitchens' marvelous byline is the most archly kinetic in current-day American letters. Every article, review and...Tags: London (England), Washington, DC, History, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Llewellyn
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When it paid to photograph hard truth
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The 10 photographers in "Engaged Observers," opening June 29 at the Getty Museum, are at once storytellers, witnesses, advocates for justice, investigative journalists, consciousness raisers, evidence gatherers and educators. They're also something...Tags: Photography, Walker Evans, Nature, Periodicals, New York
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Raymond Carver revisited in 'Collected Stories'
Collected Stories
Raymond Carver
Library of America: 1,020 pp., $40
When does an act of reclamation cease to be about restoration and become about something else? That's the question raised by "Collected Stories," the Library of America's new...Tags: Vehicles, Landforms, Raymond Carver, Mountains, Fishing
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PASSINGS: Scott Davis, Ed Moose, Frank Kermode, Ghazi Algosaibi
Scott Davis
Mount SAC track and field announcer
Scott Davis, 66, a longtime track and field announcer and statistician who added to the prestige of the Mount San Antonio College Relays by attracting such stars as Marion Jones, Carl Lewis and Asafa...Tags: California State University, Northridge, London Theatre, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Health, London (England)
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'Shocking True Story' by Henry E. Scott
Anyone familiar with James Ellroy's "L.A. Confidential," or the razor-sharp film adaptation, will recall the sleazy magazine whose insatiable desire for nasty stories about Hollywood celebrities drove the plot.
Ellroy called it Hush-Hush, but his model...Tags: Tony Bennett, California, Periodicals, Sex, New York
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I bet you think this post is about you
Jacket CopyThe book "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement" caught my eye at the office -- maybe because much of its cover is shiny and silver. It's designed to look like a mirror, I suppose -- you couldn't...... -
What we talk about when we talk about Carver
Jacket CopyIn Books this weekend, David L. Ulin looks at the new 1,020-page Library of America Raymond Carver book, "Collected Stories." The uneasy creative relationship between Carver, who died in 1988, and his longtime editor Gordon Lish came to light in......
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