After writing nearly 2,000 footnotes for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes corpus, one might think Leslie Klinger would take a respite.
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AS PRINT journalism supposedly recedes into the mists of history, and we continue to laud the Internet as the future of just about everything, it’s important to note that there is still a lot of great work being done by the denizens of the old wave.
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IT WAS high noon and the sun was throwing a harsh light over the foreboding landscape that faces the Salton Sea.
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YOU don’t hear folks touting the virtues of Compton too often.
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Havanas in Camelot
Personal Essays
William Styron
Random House: 166 pp., $23
IN the months before he fell into his final, fatal illness in the fall of 2006, William Styron compiled a number of essays, lectures and occasional pieces that he had written over the previous 20 years of his life.
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IN eighth grade, Hillary Carlip was suspended from school for dressing up like Holly Golightly.
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THIS is a sad book – tragic, really.
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EDWARD ABBEY never took half measures.
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WHAT is it about rivers that brings out the inner Thoreau in writers?
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