Thomas Lynch

Theater review: 'Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie' at Geffen Playhouse

2011-11-10 16:33:04

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A citizen's required reading for July 4: The Declaration of Independence

2011-07-03 21:37:10

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'Apparition & Late Fictions' by Thomas Lynch

2010-02-14 00:00:00

Apparitions & Late Fictions A Novella and Stories Thomas Lynch W.W. Norton: 216 pp., $24.95 "Stuffing the open cranium with cotton, fitting the skullcap back in place and easing the scalp back over the skull, thereby restoring the facial contours,...

A citizen's required reading for July 4th: The Declaration of Independence (with music)

2010-07-04 04:37:28

PASSINGS: Harold Berliner, Michael Adams

2010-05-01 00:00:00

Harold Berliner Former D.A. helped write Miranda warning Harold Berliner, 86, a former district attorney in California's Nevada County who helped write and popularize the Miranda warning, died Monday at his home near Grass Valley of age-related...

'Two Marriages: Novellas' by Phillip Lopate

2008-09-14 00:00:00

Two Marriages Novellas Phillip Lopate Other Press: 272 pp., $24.95 THE publication of new fictions -- the first in more than 20 years -- by one of our most reliable men of letters is an occasion worth marking and measuring. Phillip Lopate is best...

Tragedy in the family: 'Agamemnon'

2008-09-06 00:00:00

Aeschylus would appreciate the irony. His ancient Greek tragedy "Agamemnon," the story of a disastrous war in the Middle East, now plays at the Getty Villa, a palace of classical culture funded by an oil baron's wealth. The Villa's breathtaking outdoor...

The Declaration of Independence, reloaded

2008-07-04 00:00:00

When you've spent as many hours unpacking the text of the nation's founding documents as we have, you start to notice how many concerns that were pressing when the United States was founded remain unresolved today. This is obvious with the U.S....

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to Be Held in April

2001-07-11 08:10:10

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The long road home after 9/11

2011-08-20 00:00:00

"Grief," writes Thomas Lynch, "is the tax we pay on our attachments." It is a beautiful line. It is simple and lovely and true. If you don't feel love, then you don't feel sorrow; to live without a close connection to another person is to avoid all the...

Poems of sin-eaters, souls and suffering

2011-09-21 14:41:00

In the introduction to his impishly profound new collection of poems, Thomas Lynch recalls that when he finished writing the first handful, he "field-tested them at Joe's Star Lounge on North Main Street in Ann Arbor." The event is "a kind of communion, I...

Little-known Declaration of Independence signer honored

2011-07-04 07:07:00

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — It's William Whipple's turn to be recognized. The New Hampshire merchant is one of the lesser-known signers of the Declaration of Independence. This year, there are plans for Whipple and 11 others to be honored for their...

Thomas Lynch

2010-02-09 11:57:44

FUNERALS: Funeral director Thomas Lynch explains how Americans cope with death, grief and life on 'Frontline: The Undertaking' on KCET at 9 p.m.

2007-10-29 15:42:07

In 1943, Maj. Thomas Lynch (1916-44) of Catasauqua stands with his plane with 16 "kills' on the side. One historian wrote of Lynch: "Of the early leading aces, Tommy Lynch was unquestionably the best."

2006-10-13 08:40:11