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Gore Vidal dies at 86; iconoclastic author
Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical "Lincoln" to the satirical "Myra Breckinridge" — and volumes of...
Tags: Timothy McVeigh, Politics, Henry Fonda, Jack Kerouac, Fiction
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Mystery-thriller book review: 'Broken Harbour'
Summer might be drawing to a close, but don't worry — there's still plenty of time to squeeze in a few more chills provided by new mysteries and thrillers from Karin Fossum, Tana French and Thomas H. Cook. * The Irish seaside enclave that provides...
Tags: Spain, Book, French Literature, Arts and Culture, Literature
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Mystery-thriller book review: 'The Caller'
Los Angeles TimesSummer might be drawing to a close, but don't worry — there's still plenty of time to squeeze in a few more chills provided by new mysteries and thrillers from Karin Fossum, Tana French and Thomas H. Cook. * Other Scandinavian crime writers may be...Tags: Book, Crime, Law and Justice, Authors, Los Angeles Times
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Mystery-thriller book review: 'The Crime of Julian Wells'
Summer might be drawing to a close, but don't worry — there's still plenty of time to squeeze in a few more chills provided by new mysteries and thrillers from Karin Fossum, Tana French and Thomas H. Cook. * An Edgar Allan Poe Award and numerous...
Tags: Book, U.S. Department of State, Arts and Culture, Edgar Allan Poe, Long Island
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A Word, Please: Old-fashioned dictionaries can unlock mysteries
I love online dictionaries. They're so convenient, especially for someone who, like me, must consult two different ones on a regular basis. Within minutes of checking Webster's New World College Dictionary at yourdictionary.com for a newspaper article I'...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Slang
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Happy birthday, Carolyn Keene!
Jacket CopyToday is the birthday of Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson, who wrote 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene.... -
Not Just for Kids: In 'Tokyo Heist' teen sleuth tracks stolen art
Tokyo Heist A Novel Diana Renn Viking: 373 pp.: $17.99, ages 12 and up When Japanese culture is fused with teen fiction, the result is usually shojo manga — black-and-white graphic novels with a girlish romantic twist. In "Tokyo Heist," Japanese...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Fiction, Organized Crime, Literature
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PASSINGS: Jon Lord, Bob Babbitt, Donald J. Sobol
Jon Lord Deep Purple keyboard player Jon Lord, 71, a British keyboardist for Deep Purple and Whitesnake, died in London on Monday of a pulmonary embolism after a battle with pancreatic cancer, said a statement on his official website. Lord co-wrote...Tags: Obituaries, Music Industry, Classical Music (genre), Entertainment, Book
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PASSINGS: Richard B. Scudder, Barton Biggs
Richard B. Scudder Co-founder of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...
Tags: Princeton University, Obituaries, Financial Markets, Music Industry, England
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‘Twin Peaks’ co-creator Mark Frost seeks ‘Paladin Prophecy’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comIf you mapped the career of Mark Frost you'd see a line that veers across medium (he's written, produced and ...... -
Review: 'Shadow of Night' by Deborah Harkness is overstuffed but entertaining
-------------------- Shadow of Night A Novel Deborah Harkness Viking: 584 pp., $28.95 -------------------- Writing second installments of planned trilogies is harder than you think. There has to be enough background from the first novel — but...
Tags: Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Elizabeth II, United Nations, Arts and Culture, Authors
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Amazon: Anne Tyler is queen of whodunits
Sometimes the Amazon robots get a little wacky with their book recommendations for readers. The bots must get rusty from all of the rain out in Seattle. Read Street reader Eileen O'Brien recently got some weird suggestions for mysteries and thrillers,...
Tags: Authors, Anne Tyler
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