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happy 93rd birthday to women's right to vote 27 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
Four score and thirteen years ago today, women got the right to vote in this country, years after it had already been granted to women in Canada, Australia, Finland, Poland, Latvia, Norway, Hungary, D...
poems as op ed? 26 Aug 2013 | 06:25 am
Anthony Russo / For The Times / August 11, 2013 In a gratifying departure from the usual guidelines, Los Angeles Times editors solicited views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry. Grat...
for sale: literary laundry 25 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
Must be the week for airing laundry of literary icons! Not only is a tell-all about reclusive JD Salinger about to break in book and film, but...Eugene O'Neill's shorts are for sale. Not THOSE shorts....
airbnb solicits your 6 secs of fame 23 Aug 2013 | 03:40 am
Remember when commercials were big-budget enterprises, when Travel Depts (remember Travel Depts?) booked you First Class to LA or Bali or even the North Pole? (OK, that spot was for Coke, which I neve...
winnie-the-pooh turns 92 22 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
On this day in 1921, A.A. (Alan Alexander) Milne brought home a stuffed bear for his son Christopher Robin's first birthday. A.A. was a playwright, but that writing (to his annoyance) came to be overs...
the creative process 21 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
When I was a cub copywriter burning the midnight oil on an assignment I'd gotten weeks before, one I'd just started with my partner (though it was due the next day) after many Happy Hour drinks and fr...
RIP Elmore Leonard, ex-copywriter 21 Aug 2013 | 06:43 am
Elmore Leonard died today, at age 87 while working on his 46th novel. Leonard wasn't always a crime writer, he began as a copywriter, writing ads for cars and trucks in Detroit where his father worked...
new interactive literary novel 21 Aug 2013 | 02:23 am
There's a new interactive novel out today--not from a game publisher or vimeo artist, as you might expect, but from old-line, mainstream, behemoth publisher, Random House. The writer is the award-winn...
mad men reading list 25 May 2013 | 10:16 pm
It's a soggy Saturday where I am (Northwest CT) making it an excellent day to do what you never have time for anymore: reading longform. For Mad Men fans, I've compiled a list of books that memorializ...
soho in slomo 26 Apr 2013 | 10:05 pm
Some days, don't you wish you could just shift the world's gears, ratchet down the speed of everything going on around you, so that you could take a long, leisurely, languorous LOOK. That's what artis...
