Jean-Paul Sartre

Pithy posters for writers

2012-07-11 16:35:42

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Suu Kyi to accept her Nobel in person; others didn't [Video]

2012-06-16 04:37:50

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Book review: Shalom Auslander's 'Hope'

2012-01-15 00:00:00

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The birth of a Twitter trend: #replacebooktitleswithbacon

2011-09-01 16:34:52

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10 reasons to travel

2011-02-27 00:00:00

Gulliver traveled. Look where it got him: lashed to the land by little people. Columbus, big traveler, right? Underestimated the circumference of the Earth and died thinking he'd found India. Sure, you can come up with justifications for never leaving the...

PASSINGS: Betty Sarah Wouk, Hazel Rowley

2011-03-22 00:00:00

Betty Sarah Wouk Wife and agent of 'Caine Mutiny' author Betty Sarah Wouk, 90, the wife and literary agent of bestselling writer Herman Wouk, died March 17 at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs after suffering a stroke, said Suzanne Stein of...

Biographer Hazel Rowley has died

2011-03-20 16:33:40

Etsy teams with Facebook on gift idea generator

2010-12-21 16:35:05

Colette's Paris

2010-05-30 00:00:00

A frizzy-haired old woman wearing sandals used to sit on a stoop at the Palais-Royal in Paris. If people took her for a tramp, what did she care? Her extraordinary life was almost over. Now she could spend her afternoons eyeing passersby and cooing at...

Book review: 'Franklin and Eleanor' by Hazel Rowley

2010-11-23 00:00:00

The relationship of Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt has fascinated observers ever since they married. Friends and relatives were surprised in 1905 by the wedding of a handsome, flirtatious, fun-loving mama's boy to his serious-minded cousin, who did...

Nobel laureates in literature: the good, the bad and the Nazi

2009-10-25 16:33:26

Art review: John Divola at Laxart

2010-08-06 16:33:03

During her 33 years at the Virginia Quarterly Review, Charlotte Kohler published works by Eudora Welty and James Dickey , as well as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre , and she was the first U.S. editor to publish South African writer Nadine Gordimer .

2008-10-06 16:29:21