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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 Doubleda...
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 im...
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, ...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:53
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Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes By John Rosengren (New American Library) The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names ― Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding ...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:52
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The Humanity Project By 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, h...
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...
Updated : 2013.05.01 20:30
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PARIS (AFP) ― Tom Stoppard could call an end to his illustrious career as one of Britain’s leading playwrights, he revealed on Saturday, saying he was considering writing just one more play. “I m...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:21
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Kevin Starr, known for his “Americans and the California Dream” series, in a 2009 file photo from the Los Angeles Times (MCT) Asking Kevin Starr a question is like turning on a fire hose. First th...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:41
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In a comment on the art of reviewing and interpreting literary works, the English writer G.K. Chesterton wryly notes that “either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else cri...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:40
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Nothing Gold Can Stay By Ron Rash (Ecco) When a prisoner on a chain gang is sent to the nearest farmhouse to fetch water in the backwoods of North Carolina, author Ron Rash sets the scene for a st...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:39
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July 1914: Countdown to War By Sean McMeekin (Basic Books) A Sarajevo chauffeur took a wrong turn, and Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip had his chance to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand and h...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:38
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What would it be like to dance on the moon? There, things weigh six times less than they do on Earth. Imagine how far you could go with every jump and leap ― and how light your body would feel. Th...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:32
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NEW YORK (AP) ― Thanks to the printed word and the moving image, Salman Rushdie has recaptured the worst part of his life and relived one of the best. Last fall, the 65-year-old author published the...
Updated : 2013.04.23 19:51
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Seoulites were offered free children’s books and brochures a day before Tuesday’s World Book Day. In celebration of World Book Day on April 23, the state-run Publication Industry Promotion Agency ...
Updated : 2013.04.22 19:40
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Korean author Han Kang’s 2007 novel “Vegetarian” has been translated into Spanish and published in Argentina, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea said. The sensual novel tells the story...
Updated : 2013.04.18 20:00
