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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dentistry and Dental Health, The Wall Street Journal, Sesame Street (tv program), Newspaper and Magazine
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Fox's 2013-14 TV schedule brings back '24'
RedEyeCalling its 2013-14 schedule Fox’s “biggest investment in original programming in our history,” Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly on Monday presented the network’s plans to launch original shows over all 12 months of the year....Tags: Ruth Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, Fox Sports (tv network), Sung Kang, James Corden
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English and thermodynamics
The Baltimore SunAs a journalist, I gravitate toward the lurid. That's just how we roll. If some post-adolescent crank tries to set up a "white student union" at Towson University, he is guaranteed ink. If some crackpot explains that George W. Bush was behind the...Tags: Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, George W. Bush, Minority Groups
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Guillermo del Toro on ‘Pacific Rim,’ ‘Monster,’ ‘Justice League Dark’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesAny public appearance by Guillermo del Toro is a buffet of goodies for fans of monsters, robots and things that […]... -
Putin targets Russian audience in handling of spy saga
Reuters* President silent, but state media talking for him * Use of media, anti-US rhetoric bears aide's hallmark * Putin turns more to hawks in third presidential term By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW, May 15 (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has been unusually silent...Tags: Russia, Customs and Tradition, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Politics
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Leonardo DiCaprio of 'Gatsby' tells Cannes he has a new point of view on the American tale
Associated PressCANNES, France (AP) — Like millions of others, Leonardo DiCaprio read and loved "The Great Gatsby" as a teenager. But he says he only recently began to understand it. The star of Baz Luhrmann's kaleidoscopic screen adaptation, said reading F. Scott...Tags: Joel Edgerton, Film Festivals, French Literature, Long Island, Arts and Culture
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'Great Gatsby' stars dazzle despite damp Cannes opening
ReutersCANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival conjured up the "Roaring Twenties" on Wednesday with a glamorous opening night premiere of Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby", complete with dancers in flapper dresses on the red carpet and umbrellas to...Tags: Film Festivals, Cannes Film Festival, French Literature, Matt Damon, Festive Events
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A Carlos Fuentes boom on the anniversary of his death
The Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes is the subject of a small, literary boom on the anniversary of his death. Fuentes died one year ago, May 15, 2012, at the age of 83. This week his North American publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, released more...
Tags: Mexico, Mexico City, Arts and Culture, Authors, Book
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Five books by Chicago authors appearing at Lit Fest
In Thomas Dyja's cultural history of Chicago, "The Third Coast," he writes that in Nelson Algren's day, "being Chicago's Famous Writer was like winning the heavyweight title — there was only one at a time, and you kept the belt for as long as you...
Tags: Fiction, Poetry, Edgar Allan Poe, Nelson Algren, Rogers Park
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Critics label Dan Brown's "Inferno" a clunky page-turner
ReutersLONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - Early reviews of Dan Brown's fast-paced fourth book in "The Da Vinci Code" series labelled it a "clunky" page-turner that will nevertheless delight his fans. Critics said the dark mysteries, mind-bending codes and history-laced...Tags: The Da Vinci Code (movie), USA Today, Science and Technology, Newspapers, Authors
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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor
Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....
Tags: New York City, Judaism, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maitland, French Literature
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Alexis Rankin Popik's New Book, "Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate," Takes Inspiration From California and Connecticut
Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate By Alexis Rankin Popik/ Aucoot Press When Alexis Popik and her husband, William, moved from California to Connecticut 15 years ago, they were, she laughingly says, "the first members of either family to leave home." By...
Tags: Hartford Seminary, O.J. Simpson, Behavioral Conditions, Simsbury, Arts and Culture
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