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Traditions choose us
In the musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” Tevye claims that the lives of those in his town of Anatevka are precarious, like the life of a fiddler on a roof. What helps them keep their balance? Tradition! Tevye explains some of his people's traditions, those...Tags: Holidays, Entertainment, Religious Festivals, Judaism, Religion and Belief
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Michael Chabon, royalty rates and an e-book backlist
Jacket CopyMichael Chabon's choice of the independent Open Road Media for e-book editions of Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys includes a frank -- if not comprehensive -- discussion of royalty rates for authors.... -
This week in L.A.: Times Book Prizes, festival highlight active week
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Michael Lewis puts faces on business stories
Tribune NewspapersGrowing up in New Orleans, writer Michael Lewis learned three lessons that stuck with him for life: Success and happiness are very different things. Never become a lawyer. You don't need to come from a bookish environment to know how to spin a...Tags: Literature, Los Angeles Times, London School of Economics, The New York Times, Academy Awards
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Merits of abortion worth national discussion
Dr. Kermit Gosnell of Philadelphia is charged with the murder of eight, one woman and seven babies, in criminally negligent attempts at late-term abortions. Gosnell is accused of delivering the seven babies alive and then snipping their spinal cords...Tags: Murder, Crimes, Arizona, Human Interest, Abortion
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Five summers, memorable for the reading
Times Book Critic1974: Unhappy at summer camp, I holed up in my bunk and read Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Bernard Malamud's "The Natural." The camp might have been awful, but the books were anything but. 1980: In June, I attended a writers conference at UC...Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Henry Miller, Albert Camus, Philip Roth, University of California, Berkeley
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Critic's Notebook: In Discover Mode
Times Book CriticFor me, summer reading has always been about freedom. Not the freedom to dumb down with mindless entertainment but the freedom to wise up, to be ambitious, to pursue the passions that, during the rest of the year, often take a backseat to the...Tags: Health, Human Interest, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Behavioral Conditions
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Should we move Valentine's Day this year?
Dining@LargeJust now when I checked my work e-mail, Harry had written to suggest moving Valentine's Day this year:I think that we/you need to start a campaign to move V-Day this year. Call it V-Day 2.0 or V-Day+5 and make it......Tags: Holidays, Natural Disasters, Disasters, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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'Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor,' by Brad Gooch
Flannery
A Life of Flannery O'Connor
Brad Gooch
Little, Brown: 416 pp., $30
Brad Gooch opens "Flannery," his biography of Flannery O'Connor, with a lost moment: an account of how when O'Connor was 5, the Pathe newsreel company sent a cameraman to...Tags: Literature, Georgia, Health and Safety at School, Thomas Merton, Iowa
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For Word-Herder Larry McMurtry, Novel Is Like a Trail Drive
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor a writer whose novels are often set under big Western skies and populated with ranchers and gunslingers, Larry McMurtry is strikingly bookish. Here is a man who, any day, would rather be nosing through dusty volumes than kicking sod on the prairie....Tags: Cloris Leachman, Texas, Los Angeles Times, CBS Corp., Awards and Prizes
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