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What's happening at the library
Clark County Public Library Adult Services LibrarianPrograms are scheduled every day at the library this week. Here’s a run-down of events. On Tuesday, Sept. 18, Allen J. Share will present a talk about The Revolutionary Impact of Steamboats on the Western Waters. Mr. Share will focus on is the early...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Movies, Garlic
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The Conversation: Stealing the Truth
jking@amnews.comEverything I know, I stole. I carry around a big canvas dufflebag with me and, everywhere I go, I steal truths from song lyrics and movies and books and overheard conversations. I have even shamelessly taken mighty truths from the mouths of babes. I...Tags: Theft, Tony Awards, Onions, Entertainment Events
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Witt: Let's hope this is not the end for print books
Some recent information suggests that the demise of the book awaits mankind. Indeed the electronic book reader services consistently post increased usage, and more and more people are purchasing these readers.
Added to this phenomenon is the reality of...Tags: Mark Twain, Science and Technology, Education, Colleges and Universities, John Grisham
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Witt: Banning books, not ideas
The banning and suppression of books has been going on for several hundred years.
Of course, prior to the invention of the Gutenburg press in the middle of the 15th century, books were relatively rare and reading was limited to royalty, the upper...Tags: John Updike, Politics, Communist Party of China, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Hardy
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To the Class of 2013: Resist simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world that...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Graduation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Class Conflict
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Counting down to Lit Fest
(This selection is edited for clarity and length.) Tom Acitelli What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Who is an author you'd like to meet, dead or alive?...
Tags: Thelonious Monk, Kanye West, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), Blockbuster, Beyonce
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Graduates must resist the urge for simplicity
Members of the Class of 2013, I salute you. As everyone keeps telling you, you are graduating at a difficult and even frightening time. I wish it were otherwise — that my generation was bequeathing you a finer world. We aren't. The world into...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Unrest, Conflicts and War, Graduation, Class Conflict
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Waukegan Public Library gets national award at White House ceremony
At a White House ceremony Wednesday, first lady Michelle Obama honored the Waukegan Public Library for setting goals more ambitious than providing a quiet building full of books. The north suburban library was one of 10 institutions to win this year's...
Tags: Museums, Waukegan, Arts and Culture, Libraries
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Fantagraphics’ ’50 Girls 50′ pays tribute to EC Comics sci-fi legacy
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesREVIEW Golden-age publisher EC Comics’ rise and fall was tied to its horror titles “Tales From the Crypt” and “The ...... -
Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary Los Angeles
Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times' books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more than two dozen books set in and around L.A., as...
Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Ernest Hemingway, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Smith: Selling the idea of opportunity
My first real job out of college was at a wholesale hardware company. I started out as the sales manager, though at 25 I knew nothing about sales or managing. The scuttlebutt around the office was that the owner hired me because he thought I was a...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Dentistry and Dental Health, Marketing
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Lessons from a literary master
By Julia KellerHe was the J.K. Rowling of his day, writing sprightly, adventure-driven, insanely popular books ostensibly aimed at kids but which sober and responsible adults — if backed against a wall with the cold tip of a pirate's cutlass jammed against their...Tags: Agatha Christie, Periodicals, Arts and Culture, Newspaper and Magazine, Stephen King
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