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Actor and singer Lee Seung-gi. (Yonhap News) Celebrated Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto is writing a serial romance novel inspired by popular Korean actor and singer Lee Seung-gi, Lee’s local agen...
Updated : 2013.04.01 19:34
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Korean author Ha Il-ji’s 2009 novel “The Republic of Uzupis” has been selected as one of the 12 best translated books of 2012 by Lithuania’s government-affiliated literary organization. A tale a...
Updated : 2013.03.31 19:53
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NEW YORK (AFP) ― Letters, an unpublished short story and other documents penned by ground-breaking American novelist William Faulkner are expected to fetch more than $2 million at auction this June. ...
Updated : 2013.03.31 19:52
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Lie Sang-bong’s “Fashion is Passion” was released on March 22. (Minumin) With the recent release of his book “Fashion is Passion,” veteran designer Lie Sang-bong can now add “author” to his l...
Updated : 2013.03.28 20:00
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Aleksandar Hemon landed in the United States two decades ago, January 1992. He was 27, a young Bosnian journalist from Sarajevo arriving on a one-month visa, arranged through a cultural exchange prog...
Updated : 2013.03.28 19:58
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Middle C By William H. Gass (Knopf) There’s an amusing and apt anecdote about William H. Gass, whose exhausting but also exhilarating new novel, “Middle C,” has just been published. During a 1...
Updated : 2013.03.28 19:57
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The Storyteller By Jodi Picoult (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) Jodi Picoult is a familiar name to those of us who race through the Hudson News stores at the airport just before we board a plane. We a...
Updated : 2013.03.28 19:56
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NEW YORK (AP) ― The publisher of Khaled Hosseini, Harlan Coben and other popular authors has decided that it’s comfortable with letting libraries offer e-book editions of brand new releases. Startin...
Updated : 2013.03.28 19:50
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Kim Fowley came out of a Hollywood that doesn’t exist anymore, the Hollywood of Kenneth Anger and Ed Wood. Best known for cooking up the Runaways, he began working in the music business in the late ...
Updated : 2013.03.21 19:37
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The Annals of Unsolved Crime By Edward Jay Epstein (Melville House) There’s a saying in newspaper publishing: If it bleeds, it leads. The only thing that captures the attention of the public bett...
Updated : 2013.03.21 19:36
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Standing in Another Man’s Grave By Ian Rankin (Little, Brown) Welcome back to the Lothian & Borders Police force, John Rebus. On second thought, hold on a moment. You’re actually not so welcome...
Updated : 2013.03.21 19:35
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Florence Thompson, the “Migrant Mother” in Dorothea Lange’s famous 1936 photo, holds up her likeness during an interview, Oct. 10, 1978. (Modesto Bee/MCT) The starting point for Marisa Silver’s ...
Updated : 2013.03.21 19:33
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Author of famous novel “Please Look After Mom” Shin Kyung-sook said her new book “Moonlight Tales” came to her while on a break from writing long novels. “Walking around at night alone I looked...
Updated : 2013.03.21 19:28
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The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Resultsm By Bob Knight, with Bob Hammel (Amazon Publishing / New Harvest) Behind his choleric countenance, chair-hu...
Updated : 2013.03.14 19:53
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Kind of Kin By Rilla Askew (HarperCollins) I first encountered the absorbing, beautifully written work of Oklahoma native Rilla Askew in her 2007 novel, “Harpsong.” I’ve since read her three ea...
Updated : 2013.03.14 19:52
