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NEW YORK (AP) ― Over the past two years, publishers have been steadily filling one of the largest gaps in the e-book catalogue ― poetry.Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes and Wallace Stevens have been among the poets whose work recently became available in electronic format. ...
Updated : 2013.05.19 20:08
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A Man Without Breath, By Philip Kerr (Marian Wood/G.P. Putnam’s Sons)Through nine Philip Kerr novels spanning the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and the subsequent pursuit and prosecution of some of i...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:31
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Board StiffBy Elaine Viets (Obsidian)With few exceptions, characters in mysteries change and grow throughout the series. Not only does that reflect real life ― are any of us the same person we were ...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:30
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway’s home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:29
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After the film adaptation of his 2010 novel “Eungyo”― a tale about a 70-something poet falling for a teenage girl ― created much hype even before its release, author Park Bum-shin in 2011 moved al...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:29
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Author Hwang Sok-yong said he plans to sue Jaeum & Moeum, the publishing house accused of hoarding copies of his latest novel in an attempt to have it included in the bestseller list, for libel and financial and psychological damages, according to news reports.The author said he wants his ...
Updated : 2013.05.09 19:22
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Celebrated author Hwang Sok-yong said he wants his best-selling novel “Yeowoolmoolsori” off the shelves after a TV program accused his publishing house, Jaeum & Moeum, of hoarding copies of the nove...
Updated : 2013.05.08 20:15
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KYOTO, Japan (AFP) ― Bestselling author Haruki Murakami said Monday that writing a novel is like descending to a very dark second basement of your psyche, when you are not even sure where the corridors are.In a rare public appearance by the publicity-shy but wildly popular writer, Murakam...
Updated : 2013.05.07 20:00
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Writer Frank X Walker is driving to Alabama with a trunk full of books.The eight-hour trip is not out of the ordinary for Walker, who is promoting his latest collection of poems, “Turn Me Loose: The ...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:54
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NEW YORK (AP) ― The defense attorney in John Grisham’s first novel, “A Time to Kill,” is returning to the courtroom.Grisham’s new book, “Sycamore Row,” will be published Oct. 22, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced Wednesday. Like “A Time to Kill,” it will feature Jake ...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:53
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NEW YORK (AP) ― Mitch Albom, one of the most popular U.S. authors, has a new publisher and a new novel coming this year.The author of “Tuesdays With Morrie” has a three-book deal with Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Albom’s previous publisher was the Disney-owned Hyperi...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:53
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Have you ever seen a juggler on a moving sidewalk? Ben Greenman, whose latest novel, “The Slippage,” was published Tuesday, ponders this and other wonders of life.A novelist, short-story writer, hum...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:53
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Hank Greenberg: The Hero of HeroesBy John Rosengren (New American Library)The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names ― Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding like ...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:52
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The Humanity ProjectBy Jean Thompson (Blue Rider Press)My friend Beth says that we are all “dented cereal boxes.” Even the best among us occasionally think dark thoughts, make bad decisions, hurt t...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:51
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NEW YORK (AP) ― Philip Roth’s latest honor was as much for what he has done for other writers as for his own work.Roth received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award Tuesday night. He was cited for such novels as “Portnoy’s Complaint’’ and “American Pastoral,’’ but also ...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:30
