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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Oct 7, 2008
NEW YORK, Oct. 6 -- Larry Doyle, a former television writer-producer for "The Simpsons," was named Monday the winner of this year's Thurber Prize for American Humor. He was cited for the novel "I Love You, Beth Cooper."
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Bookstores, book reviews and events in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland - washingtonpost.com - Sep 26, 2008
Michael Gates Gill's birthright earned him a life of ease and opportunity. As a son of the New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, he brushed shoulders with the likes of Ernest Hemingway, James Thurber, Jacqueline Kennedy …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Sep 4, 2008
The late-night comedians love to needle AARP as the unflagging advance team for senility. They're the folks who send the dreaded membership invite when you hit 50, an otherwise sunny reminder that you're well on your …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Bookstores, book reviews and events in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland - washingtonpost.com - Aug 25, 2008
TRUE CRIME An American Anthology Edited by Harold Schechter
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Style - Aug 24, 2008
TRUE CRIME An American Anthology Edited by Harold Schechter Library of America. 788 pp. $40 Murder, let's face it, is as American as cherry pie. That's the unavoidable conclusion one reaches after reading the Library …
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watchingsimpsons.com » Watching Simpsons - Aug 22, 2008
There’s a couple of reasons why The Simpsons has likely survived all these years on television. Compelling, memorable characters is probably first and foremost – Bart, Lisa, Marge, Maggie, and Homer are now iconic …
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rightwingnews.com » Right Wing News - Jul 4, 2008
But it was really James Thurber who turned me on to this poem, which has been going through my head all day for obvious reasons: Barbara Frietchie By John Greenleaf Whittier On that pleasant morn of the early fall …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Business - May 22, 2008
Longtime uber-lobbyist Charles R. Black Jr. is John McCain's man in Washington, a political maestro who is hoping to guide his friend, the senator from Arizona, to the presidency this November.
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