Sunday Books: coverage for April 17, 2011
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The children’s author, creator of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins, will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
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Tales from college writing courses. The horrors continue.
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Book review: ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World,’ by James Carroll
Examining the violent histories of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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The epic novel follows the lives of a fishing town in Denmark from the late 1800s through World War II.
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The author creates an elderly woman who may not have a dramatic life but is three dimensional and interesting to follow around.
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‘Illuminations’ by Arthur Rimbaud, ‘Toward You’ by Jim Krusoe, ‘My Berlin Child’ by Anne Wiazemsky.
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The conventions of children’s fantasy are highly familiar… and well-executed in John Stephens’ ‘The Emerald Atlas.’