Confession: I’m a bookaholic. And I’ve been one all my life. Once, as a toddler, I was taken to visit my parents’ friends Martha and Eugenio, and the only thing I remember is being fascinated by the ...

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When Umberto Eco was touring for the English edition of “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana” the Los Angeles Public Library asked me to interview him on stage for its ALOUD reading series in 2005. I ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In his essay “Lumbar Thought,” Umberto Eco, who died last week at 84, worried that blue jeans limit our capacity for thought. He wasn’t objecting to the ...

ROME --Italian author Umberto Eco, who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his best-selling historical novel "The Name of the Rose," has died. Spokeswoman Lori Glazer of Eco's ...

' I am reaching the end of my ordeal," says Umberto Eco when we meet. Happily, I don't take this personally. Eco – philosopher, semiotician, novelist, bibliophile and all-round brainbox – has been on ...

But Eco’s scholarship set this mystery apart. The story revolves on a series of intellectual riddles, and a forbidden book that may hold the key to the murder. The novel has been called a parable of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco, best known for his 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, has died aged 84. Eco's family told local ...