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That I never met Billy Zurlo is, first of all, my loss, and second, surprising. I've known his sister Rosemary and her husband Frank for more than a decade, and over time I've met most other members of their families. But Billy was someone I didn't get to know until after he'd died - starting with his memorial service at the Goodman Center on Dec. 30, 2011.

If it's a vacation heaped with gourmet food, exquisite wine, female friendship, sightseeing and loads of laughter, A Taste of France tours may have the perfect recipe.

Book review: The Fat Years By David L. Ulin Los Angeles Times Published Jan 27, 2012 09:21PM MDT I’ve long been partial to E.M. Forster’s formulation that the role of fiction — or one of them, anyway — is to suggest a “buzz of implication,” a flavor of time and place more nuanced than history allows. That’s because fiction is an art of narrative, of emotion, defined by the singular movements of ...