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        <title>Walter Benjamin</title>
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        <description>A collection of news and information related to Walter Benjamin published by Tribune Company sources.</description>
        
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			<title><![CDATA[Miriam Hansen dies at 61; scholar of early American cinema]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-02-19 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hansen, who introduced a new level of sophistication to film studies with her groundbreaking study of American silent film and research on cinema and the human senses, died of cancer Feb. 5 in Chicago. She was 61.

Hansen was a professor of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Influences: Los Angeles composer Hugh Levick]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-05-11 16:33:11</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Miriam Hansen, who introduced a new level of sophistication to film studies with her groundbreaking study of American silent film and research on cinema and the human senses, died of cancer Feb. 5 in Chicago. She was 61.

Hansen was a professor of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Book review: Willy Wonka's creator]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-10-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Storyteller

The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl

Donald Sturrock

Simon & Schuster: 658 pp., $30

I was sitting on an airplane with a copy of "Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl" when an elegant woman in the seat next to me murmured,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Orhan Pamuk's L.A. stroll conjures up familiar sights]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-11-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Just a few hours before Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in literature, was set to read from his new novel, "The Museum of Innocence" (Alfred A. Knopf: 540 pp., $28.95), at the Japan America Theatre, the lifelong Istanbul resident was strolling down...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Art review: Scott Short at Christopher Grimes Gallery]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-05-28 16:32:50</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Just a few hours before Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in literature, was set to read from his new novel, "The Museum of Innocence" (Alfred A. Knopf: 540 pp., $28.95), at the Japan America Theatre, the lifelong Istanbul resident was strolling down...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Still alive!]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-caw-astral-weeks14-2009jun14,0,5368215.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2009-06-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[To call something "notes" means it isn't finished.

A preparation for something else, or a work in progress.

Or

It means I know this is less than perfect. It means the piecemeal composition is acknowledged, should be applauded.

"And to my horror (for I...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New in paperback: Huxley's demons and the grace of Hanif Kureishi]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-10-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aldous Huxley: "The Devils of Loudun" (HarperPerennial)

In 1643, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. The convent's charismatic priest was eventually convicted of seducing the nuns in his charge...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Meet the gimmick books]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-et-gimmick-books5-2009sep05,0,3418233.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2009-09-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One had to relive eighth grade. Another grew a beard so long and unruly it became more famous than its wearer. Yet another got to meet Richard Simmons on a cruise ship and was ranted at by a whole raft of motivational speakers.

They're not professional...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shifting realities]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2007-09-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[By Ed Park

Repetition is never a good thing. In "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," Jorge Luis Borges cites or invents a Gnostic saying. "Copulation and mirrors are abominable," he writes, because both reproduce the visual universe, which is illusory. People...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New in paperback: Richard Yates, Denis Johnson, Charles Baxter and more]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-caw-new-paperbacks-2009mar01,0,6127115.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2009-03-01 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Barry Day (ed): "The Letters of Noel Coward" (Vintage)

"The human race is a let down. It thinks it's progressed but it hasn't. It thinks it's risen above the primeval slime but it hasn't -- it's still wallowing in it!," says Gilda in Noel Coward's...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Strange new frontiers]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-bkw-park18-2008may18,0,1401366.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2008-05-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA["WHAT is it?"

So begins, with delicious confusion, the first chapter of "The Great Romance" (Bison Books/University of Nebraska: 170 pp., $17.95), as the narrator emerges from a centuries-long slumber into a weird, telepathically perfected world. The...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[True New Yorker]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2008-07-20 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker...]]></description>
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