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    Unnamed 'Oxygen Thief' becomes self-published success

    NEW YORK (AP) -- The fair-skinned man with the hoodie and dark ski cap sits on a bench outside McNally Jackson Books in downtown Manhattan, where neither patrons nor employees seem aware that he's th...

    Jun 1, 2016

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    Fat and happy: No one tells author Lindy West what to do

    Lindy West is a defender of bodies: women’s bodies, fat bodies, every body’s right to exist in whatever way, shape or form, unjudged and unassailed. “Everyone has a body,” she says. “We haven’t devel...

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  • The worldwide war of keystrokes

    The worldwide war of keystrokes

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    Jun 1, 2016

  • Rare Shakespeare first edition sold for nearly 2m pounds

    Rare Shakespeare first edition sold for nearly 2m pounds

    LONDON (AFP) - A rare first edition of British playwright William Shakespeare’s works from 1623 sold for 1.87 million pounds ($2.75 million) at Christie’s on Wednesday, the auction house said. A pri...

    May 26, 2016

  • Writers share Wodehouse comic fiction prize, win a pig

    LONDON (AP) -- Satires set in financial-crisis Ireland and the high-end art world share this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, whose rewards include a bottle of champagne a...

    May 25, 2016

  • Helen Mirren to narrate audiobook for Beatrix Potter story

    Helen Mirren to narrate audiobook for Beatrix Potter story

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Helen Mirren’s latest role is audio only. The award-winning British actress is narrating the recently rediscovered Beatrix Potter story “The Tale of Kitty-In-Boots,” Penguin Random...

    May 25, 2016

  • Oil riches help keep alive bedouin poetry

    Oil riches help keep alive bedouin poetry

    ABU DHABI (AFP) -- The Middle East’s poetry equivalent of “Pop Idol” is helping to keep alive an age-old tradition using bedouin dialect, which is barely understood outside the Arabian Gulf. Apart ...

    May 25, 2016

  • With Booker win behind her, Han expands realm of expression

    With Booker win behind her, Han expands realm of expression

    Han Kang says she was never a best-selling writer until now

    May 25, 2016

  • World War II's endgame was also a beginning for Samuel Beckett

    World War II's endgame was also a beginning for Samuel Beckett

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    May 25, 2016

  • ‘The Gene’ captures scientific method in all its fumbling glory

    ‘The Gene’ captures scientific method in all its fumbling glory

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  • Lara Feigel’s book tours Germany in the wake of WWII defeat

    Lara Feigel’s book tours Germany in the wake of WWII defeat

    “The Bitter Taste of Victory: Life, Love, and Art in the Ruins of the Reich” By Lara Feigel Bloomsbury (443 pages, $32) It wasn’t just grunts and generals who crossed into Germany at the end of...

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    May 19, 2016

  • Efforts that culminated in Han's Booker win

    Efforts that culminated in Han's Booker win

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    May 18, 2016

  • J.K. Rowling honored by PEN for literary and humanitarian work

    J.K. Rowling honored by PEN for literary and humanitarian work

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    May 18, 2016

  • Chilean-American writer Allende seeks inspiration after loss

    Chilean-American writer Allende seeks inspiration after loss

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    May 18, 2016

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