Top seeds were going down fast this weekend in high school basketball, but No. 1-seeded Birmingham prevailed over Taft, 80-73, on Saturday night at Roybal to advance to the City Section Open Division championship game. The Patriots will play Westchester, which upset No. 2-seeded Fairfax, 66-59.... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confounded his peers‘You’ll be reading me every now and then at least until about 2080, weather... Continue reading at The Guardian
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“Still Life” is that rare, affectionate novel that makes one feel grateful to have been carried along. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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The appearance of George R.R. Martin at Saturday night's ThrillerFest gala, where he was honored as ThrilerMaster, helped to draw a packed crowd to the event, but there was no sign of when the next installment in his Song of Fire and Ice series will be published. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The best way to attack a sagging zone defense is make some outside shots. Westchester’s Jeremiah Turley, Kevin Bethel and Zellie Hudson took care of that. The guards opened the way for 6-foot-6, 260-pound Kaelen Allen to bully Fairfax defenders inside on Saturday night. It translated into a 14th... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Zach Lofton scored nine of his 15 points in the second half, and New Mexico State knocked off No. 6 Miami 63-54 on Saturday night in the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu to earn a spot in the final against USC. The Aggies (11-2) beat a ranked team for the first time in 10 seasons and handed the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Sprint car veteran David Steele has died during a race in Florida. Desoto Speedway officials said in a Facebook post on Saturday night that track owners and staff were saddened by the crash. The statement says Steele was trying to win his 100th race in Florida. A Manatee County Sheriff's Office... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Coming back from a 19-point third-quarter deficit, Fairfax High pulled out a stunning 82-80 overtime victory over Palisades on Saturday night in the City Section Open Division girls’ final at Cal State Dominguez Hills. “It was a remarkable comeback,” Coach Judi Edwards said. Fairfax sent the game... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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It was the weekend for upsets in high school basketball, and Westchester did its part on Saturday night, knocking off No. 2-seeded Fairfax, 66-59, in the City Section Open Division semifinals at Roybal High. It came a day after the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds, Chatsworth Sierra Canyon and Chino Hills,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Top seeds were going down fast this weekend in high school basketball, but No. 1-seeded Birmingham prevailed over Taft, 80-73, on Saturday night at Roybal to advance to the City Section Open Division championship game. The Patriots will play Westchester, which upset No. 2-seeded Fairfax, 66-59.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The new Harry Potter went on sale last Saturday night, and bookstores across the country celebrated with midnight parties. Here we present a sampling of photos from those festivities. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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If Saturday night’s speech by Bernie Sanders was any indication of his approach to Sunday’s presidential debate, the upcoming clash with Hillary Clinton could be the most interesting and fully-joined of the Democratic campaign season. Sanders went hard at Clinton over her campaign’s financing,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Who is D'Mauria Jones and how come nobody knew anything about him until this season at Narbonne? He has become the leading scorer for the No. 2-seeded Gauchos, who play Fairfax on Saturday night at 6 o'clock in a City Section Open Division semifinal at Roybal. Jones, a senior guard, came to... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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The potential City Section Open Division playoff seedings got a little more intriguing on Saturday night after Narbonne (10-5) pulled out a 60-58 victory over Fairfax (15-2) in the championship game of the Huntington Park tournament. It was the second big win this week for Narbonne over a City... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Nelson DeMille was crowned 2015’s ThrillerMaster at Saturday night’s 10th International Thriller Writers’ Banquet, held at Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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In 1990, Susan Orlean published a book called Saturday Night, in which she set out to document how Americans spend their weekly reprieve from work. “Saturday night,” she wrote, “is when you want to do what you want to do and not what you have to do.” One thing people want to do on Saturday night... Continue reading at Slate
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 11/08/2011 - 08:57 The Big Green Bookshop is to hold a comedy gig to raise money for the victims made homeless by the "appalling behaviour" of rioters in Tottenham last weekend. Londons Wood Green where the bookshop is based was also hit by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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