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What happened on January 17, 1999

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  • Reading L.a.

  • Bibliomania  By Valentine Cunningham, \o7 Valentine Cunningham is professor of English language and literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the author of "In the Reading Gaol: Texts, Postmodernity, and History."\f7

  • L.A. Confidential  By Eugen Weber, \o7 Eugen Weber is the Joan Palevsky professor of modern European history at UCLA. His column "L.A. Confidential" will be a monthly feature devoted to mysteries and thrillers\f7

  • Le Feu-Follet, By John Doucet

  • A Regular Guy  By Larry Beinhart, \o7 Larry Beinhart is the author of, most recently, "How To Write A Mystery" and "American Hero."\f7

  • Remembering Malibu, for Brian Moore

  • Brian Moore: An Appreciation By Nan A. Talese, \o7 Nan A. Talese, publisher and editorial director of Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, published two novels by Brian Moore, "Lies of Silence" and "No Other Life."\f7

  • Brian Moore: An Appreciation By Joan Didion, \o7 Joan Didion is the author of numerous works, including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," "Play It As It Lays" and "The White Album."\f7

  • Brian Moore: An Appreciation By John Gregory Dunne, \o7 John Gregory Dunne is the author of several books including "Playland: A Novel" and memoirs including "Monster: Living Off the Big Screen."\f7

  • Brian Moore: An Appreciation By Fintan O'Toole, \o7 Fintan O'Toole is the author of "A Traitor's Kiss," a biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. He is a critic for the New York Daily News and a columnist for the Irish Times\f7

  • Brian Moore: An Appreciation By Calvin Trillin, \o7 Calvin Trillin is the author of many books, including, most recently, "Family Man."\f7

  • Brian Moore: An Appreciation By John Banville, \o7 John Banville is the author of "Mefisto" and "The Untouchable." He is the literary editor of the Irish Times\f7

  • Brian Moore: An Appreciation By Thomas Flanagan, \o7 Thomas Flanagan is the author of several novels, including "The Tenants of Time" and "The Year of the French."\f7

  • First Love By Nessa Rapoport, \o7 Nessa Rapoport is the author of a novel, "Preparing for Sabbath," and of "A Woman's Book of Grieving," among other works\f7

  • Kith and Kin  By Mary Rourke, \o7 Mary Rourke is a Times staff writer\f7

  • C +  By Russell Jacoby, \o7 Russell Jacoby is the author of "Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America" (Doubleday/Anchor). He co-edited "The Bell Curve Debate" (Times Books) and teaches at UCLA\f7

  • Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds, \o7 Susan Salter Reynolds is an assistant editor of Book Review\f7

  • Southern California Rating: FICTION 1. DREAMING SOUTHERN...

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