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Fun Facts Friday: Howard Lindsay
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Fun Facts Friday: Howard Lindsay

Man of la BookMarch 27, 2020

Howard Lindsay (29 March, 1889 – 11 February, 1968) was an American Pulitzer Prize award winner playwright, director and actor.

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Book Review: The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
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Book Review: The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata

Man of la BookMarch 16, 2020

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata is a novel spanning generations about a science fiction writer and her lost manuscript

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Fun Facts Friday: William Braithwaite
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Fun Facts Friday: William Braithwaite

Man of la BookDecember 6, 2019

William Braithwaite (6 December 1878 – 8 June, 1962) was a poet, writer and critic from Boston, MA.

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Fun Facts: Sholem Asch
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Fun Facts Friday: Sholem Asch

Man of la BookNovember 1, 2019

Sholem Asch was a Polish novelist who wrote in Yiddish, including God of Vengeance taking place in a Jewish brothel with Jewish prostitutes, lesbians, and more

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Fun Facts Friday: Louis Auchincloss
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Fun Facts Friday: Louis Auchincloss

Man of la BookSeptember 27, 2019

Louis Auchincloss (27 September, 1917 – 26 January, 2010) was a novelist, historian, and essayist from New York

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Book Review: Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
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Book Review: Quichotte by Salman Rushdie

Man of la BookSeptember 25, 2019

Just as Cervantes’ Don Quichotte made fun of the junk-culture in his era, Mr. Rushdie goes to a literary war with the garbage that Americans are inundated with

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Book Review: The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis
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Book Review: The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis

Man of la BookJuly 10, 2019

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting – a non-fiction book about da Vinci’s painting: Salvator Mundi, sold for $450 million

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Fun Facts Friday: Frederic Prokosch
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Fun Facts Friday: Frederic Prokosch

Man of la BookMay 17, 2019

Frederic Prokosch was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, & translations. He is mostly known for his novels The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled.

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Fun Facts Friday: Bel Kaufman
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Fun Facts Friday: Bel Kaufman

Man of la BookMay 10, 2019

Bel Kaufman (10 May, 1911 – 25 July, 2014), born as Bella, in Berlin, Germany, was an American author and educator known for her novel Up the Down Staircase.

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Book Review: Ghosts of Gotham by Craig Schaefer
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Book Review: Ghosts of Gotham by Craig Schaefer

Man of la BookApril 29, 2019

A novel taking place in present day New York City involving a search for a missing manuscript by Edgar Allan Poe in a hidden world of magic & magical creatures

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