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Book Review: More After the Break by Jen Maxfield
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Book Review: More After the Break by Jen Maxfield

Man of la BookJuly 5, 2022

More After the Break by Jen Maxfield is a memoir in which the author goes back to find out what happened to some of the people she covered over the years.

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Book Review: Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin
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Book Review: Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin

Man of la BookJune 23, 2021

The novel is strongest in its depiction of the day-to-day living with a person suffering from Alzheimer’s. An undignified way to slowly die for those affected.

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Fun Facts Friday: Hal Borland
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Fun Facts Friday: Hal Borland

Man of la BookMay 14, 2021

Hal Borland (14 May, 1900 – 22 February, 1978) was an American author, mostly focusing on non-fiction books and articles about nature and the outdoors.

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Fun Facts Friday: Federico García Lorca
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Fun Facts Friday: Federico García Lorca

Man of la BookJune 5, 2020

Federico García Lorca (5 June, 1898 – 19 August, 1936) was a Spanish playwright, director, and poet. Mr. Lorca was internationally known as a member of the group of poets known as  Generation of ’27.

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Fun Facts Friday: Joseph Pulitzer
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Fun Facts Friday: Joseph Pulitzer

Man of la BookApril 10, 2020

Joseph Pulitzer (10 April, 1847 – 29 October, 1911) was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World, as well as a Congressman.

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Fun Facts Friday: Louis Bromfield
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Fun Facts Friday: Louis Bromfield

Man of la BookDecember 27, 2019

Louis Bromfield (27 December, 1896 – 18 March, 1956) was an American author, scientist, and conservationist who won the Pulitzer Prize

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Fun Facts Friday: Gerhart Hauptmann
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Fun Facts Friday: Gerhart Hauptmann

Man of la BookNovember 15, 2019

Gerhart Hauptmann (15 November, 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate.

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Fun Facts Friday: Langston Hughes
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Fun Facts Friday: Langston Hughes

Man of la BookFebruary 1, 2019

Langston Hughes (1 February, 1902 – 22 May, 1967) was a poet, novelist, playwright & translator born in Missouri, and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance

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Fun Facts Friday: Umberto Eco
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Fun Facts Friday: Umberto Eco

Man of la BookJanuary 5, 2018

Mr. Eco said that social media “gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community […] but now they

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Fun Facts Friday: Cornell Woolrich
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Fun Facts Friday: Cornell Woolrich

Man of la BookDecember 4, 2015

Mr. Woolrich’s noir stories were adapted to screenplays more than any other writer.

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