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A rare wild flower is the star of the Florida swamp. But can the ghost orchid survive?
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn “The Orchid Thief,” author Susan Orlean wrote of a “phantom” flower hidden deep in the swamps of...
Columbus-born authors included in nominees for 81st annual Ohioana Book Awards
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThirty Ohio authors have been nominated for the 81st annual Ohioana Book Awards, to be announced in...
Roger Angell, editor, author and poet laureate of baseball, dies at 101
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAuthor Roger Angell at his office at the New Yorker magazine in 2006. (Associated Press) Roger...
Column: Here's why you can't 'own' your ebooks
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoPublishers and authors rightly fear that they'll lose out financially from the digitization of books; but it's also quite possible that, properly...
How two SoCal immigrants and Alexander Chee are reinventing the gift box — for books
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen the author Alexander Chee agreed to select “American fiction” for a subscription service called Boxwalla, starting with two works arriving in mailboxes this month, he understood an essential ...
Ken Brecher, anthropologist and longtime champion of Los Angeles humanities, dies at 78
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoKen Brecher, former president of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, executive director of the...
Meryl Streep's 32 greatest movie moments
Total Film via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMeryl Streep sits in her desk during an interview in The Devil Wears Prada. With more than 20 Oscar nominations to her name, Meryl Streep is synonymous...
Colorado Springs area literary events starting Oct. 2
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 2—SIGNINGS Book Signings, Meet and Greet and Live Poetry — With Patrice Diechelle, Jennifer Harris and Patrick Murakami, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 15, Creations at the Edge, 324 N. Nevada Ave. Tickets ...
Bestsellers List Sunday, July 10
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSoCal Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Viking: $28) Prior to the Civil War, a slave, a racehorse and an artist launch a complex story that spans generations. 2. Lapvona ...
Book Talk: Dan Chaon’s novel ‘Sleepwalk’ is mind-bending experience
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThere are surprises on every page of Dan Chaon’s terrific, darkly funny new novel “Sleepwalk.”...
