No room for Freedom in Perry, Indiana. A veteran high school teacher in Perry, Indiana has been suspended without pay for teaching The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. The book by Long Beach, California teacher/author Erin Gruwell and her students [...]
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Reality check
Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks offers her read of Margaret Seltzer’s phony South Central memoir. She is offended. Puzzled, too. And she looks for answers at the scene of Selter’s lies.
Eso Won bookstore in South Los Angeles was supposed to host the author at a book-signing Friday night but canceled and sent the [...]
Slaughterhouse blues
In today’s LAT, Christopher D. Cook, the author of Diet for a Dead Planet, chews over the big beef recall and its dirty backstory. He writes:
Nauseating as it was, last week’s record-setting beef recall and the apparent feeding of meat from crippled “downer” cattle to our nation’s children and others should come as little surprise. [...]
Reality check
Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks offers her read of Margaret Seltzer’s phony South Central memoir. She is offended. Puzzled, too. And she looks for answers at the scene of Selter’s lies.
Eso Won bookstore in South Los Angeles was supposed to host the author at a book-signing Friday night but canceled and sent the [...]
Slaughterhouse blues
In today’s LAT, Christopher D. Cook, the author of Diet for a Dead Planet, chews over the big beef recall and its dirty backstory. He writes:
Nauseating as it was, last week’s record-setting beef recall and the apparent feeding of meat from crippled “downer” cattle to our nation’s children and others should come as little surprise. [...]
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Two authors, the next president & a burger shack
Author Pico Iyer writes in Time magazine about his chance encounter with Barak Obama in Hawaii.
“It was three days before the New Year in late 2006, and I was eating a burger with the traveler and writer Paul Theroux on Oahu’s North Shore. Beside us in the rickety little shack was a quintessentially Hawaiian group [...]
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