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Coffee-table books
Art Nouveau
Norbert Wolf
Prestel, $75
The Art Nouveau movement covered it all — decorative arts, architecture, fashion, dance, advertising and more — and this book seeks to restore the movement's prominence in the discussion of modern art....Tags: History (tv network), Arts and Culture, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Gaming, I Love Lucy (tv program)
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Harry's education, and yours: A father sends his son off to college, with wisdom from a boy wizard
To Zac, my son:
As you prepare to enter college, one of your childhood pleasures — the "Harry Potter" books and movies — is ending in theaters around the world. What a journey author J.K. Rowling provided for you and millions of young...Tags: Elections, Fiction, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Harry Potter (fictional character), Jane Austen
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Washington and Baltimore jockey for book lovers on the same weekend
Baltimore's book festival got here first.
Organizers of the 16th annual Baltimore Book Festival, which opens Friday, say they aren't fazed that a larger, glitzier, more star-studded event is being held on the exact same weekend just 40 miles to the...Tags: Mount Vernon Place, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Washington, DC, Arts and Culture, Book
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Leafing Through the Pages at the Morton Arboretum
Our book club reads a wide range of titles, frequently about nature.
We meet in the Sterling Morton Library, which contains 28,000 books, 12,000 artworks and several hundred nursery catalogs.
"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau brought on one of our best...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Thomas Jefferson, Arts and Culture, Bill Bryson, Fiction
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R.A.W. book club
R.A.W. stands for Readers of African-American Works. We're a collective of black women in Chicago's northwest suburbs who love dissecting literature by black authors.
We gather at members' homes.
"Kindred" (by Octavia E. Butler) was our first science...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Fiction, Minority Groups, African Americans, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Nobel for Dylan would be all right, Ma
Change of SubjectStory: According to Ladbrokes, Bob Dylan is the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel Prize for literature (which will be announced Thursday morning). The British betting house has Dylan as the top possibility, running at 5-to-1 odds, ahead of Japanese...... -
Music theater review: Peter Sellars' 'Desdemona' at Berkeley
Culture MonsterPeter Sellars' "Desdemona" -- with text by Toni Morrison and music by Rokia Traoré -- is an incantatory new re-imagining of Shakespeare's "Othello," giving the missing voice to the women and Africans.... -
'The Debt': Helen Mirren plus Jessica Chastain equals one Nazi hunter
Ministry of GossipEver wonder what Helen Mirren looked like when she was young? The folks behind "The Debt" would have you believe she looked like Jessica Chastain. Helen Mirren and Jessica Chastain play two incarnations of the same Mossad agent in a spy thriller "The... -
Upbeat mood at Book Expo America
Los Angeles Times— What makes Jane Fonda say "wow"? A bigger-than-capacity crowd of more than 200 booksellers waiting to hear about her latest, "Prime Time: Creating a Great Third Act," a rousing manual for aging well. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Book...Tags: Diane Keaton, Computer Networking and Internet, Arts and Culture, Oprah Winfrey, Illinois
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‘Public Speaking,’ ‘Collapse’ and stand-up comedies — a weekend of documentary watching.
Frankly My Dear - Orlando SentinelThe long Memorial Day holiday weekend was a chance to catch up on all sorts of films Ive been meaning to get to — documentaries, mainly (Though I did plow through the Andy Serkis star turn as rocker Ian Drury “Sex, Drugs & Rock'n Roll.”... -
Books by dudes for dudes, books by chicks for dudes
Jacket CopyEsquire's 75 books by dudes for dudes is three years old, but Joyland created a list of 250 books for dudes by chicks.... -
Next season at Center Stage: 'Jazz,' Sondheim, Mamet
The theme of Center Stage's 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of "Jazz," a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's "American Buffalo";...Tags: Entertainment, Connecticut, Companies and Corporations, David Mamet, Theater
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