Horatio Alger

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

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Cookbook Watch: Marcus Samuelsson's 'Yes, Chef'

2012-07-03 16:32:38

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Eisenhower Memorial Commission throws support behind Gehry

2012-03-27 16:32:34

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Happy birthday, Anthony Bourdain!

2011-06-25 16:34:43

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Reading L.A.: Charles Jencks on Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne and the rest of the L.A. School

2011-07-29 16:33:20

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Book review: 'Decoded' by Jay-Z

2010-12-03 00:00:00

Jay-Z is a great American artist — and he'd be the first to tell you so. "Decoded" is an elegantly designed, incisively written bid for cultural legitimacy by a man whose XXL ego is underscored by an equally outsized inferiority complex (as big egos...

Media milked Ted Williams' 15 minutes of fame for all their worth

2011-02-23 21:35:59

Having helped 'Fire Pelosi!' might the same fate now await GOP Chairman Michael Steele?

2010-12-09 16:34:20

Book review: 'The Last Greatest Magician in the World' by Jim Steinmeyer

2011-04-10 00:00:00

The Last Greatest Magician in the World Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards Jim Steinmeyer Tarcher/Penguin: 377 pp., $26.95 It takes some courage to write the biography of a man the reading public has mostly forgotten....

Astral Weeks: A sci-fi master's beginnings

2010-12-10 14:30:00

"I am submitting the enclosed short story 'LIFE-LINE' for either 'Astounding' or 'Unknown,'" Robert A. Heinlein wrote to editor John Campbell in 1939, "because I am not sure which policy it fits the better." The former magazine published science fiction,...

'Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything' by Kevin Cook

2010-12-18 00:00:00

Alvin Clarence Thomas, a.k.a. Titanic Thompson, was a gambler and golf hustler who died at age 82 on May 19, 1974, but whose outlaw career really flourished, as Kevin Cook records with breezy relish in his biography "Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on...

Paperback Writers: Nightmare noir

2010-03-28 00:00:00

William Lindsay Gresham's novel "Nightmare Alley" (NYRB Classics: 288 pp., $16) tells the rise-and-fall story of Stan Carlisle, a hustling carnival wanna-be who transforms himself into the Great Stanton, a big-time stage magician, and then into a fake...

Award plaque to Francine Neff, treasurer of the United States, and Art Linkletter in New York. The two were among 14 recipients, all of whom shared a rise to success from humble beginnings.

2010-05-26 14:28:53