Literature
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BBC adapting Rowling’s ‘Casual Vacancy’ for TVDec 03, 2012 10:43 am - LONDON — The BBC says it is turning J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults into a television drama. “The Casual Vacancy” is a darkly humorous saga of modern British life ...
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Palatine mom writes children’s book about pet’s escapadesDec 01, 2012 10:27 am - When Kristie the hamster accidentally went through a laundry cycle and somehow lived, Geri McNeely Schultz figured she might as well turn to fiction to tell the family p...
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Stories about films light up 'Big Screen'Dec 01, 2012 5:00 am - A treat for the film fan who already knows his Murnau from his Eisenstein, David Thomson's reflections on movies and their impact is a tart challenge to people who think...
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Harry Bosch returns in stellar 'Black Box'Nov 30, 2012 5:00 am - Michael Connelly has been writing books featuring Los Angeles police Detective Harry Bosch for 20 years, and his 25th novel, “The Black Box,” continues his streak of tel...
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Book notes: NCC hosts 'Thomas Jefferson' authorNov 29, 2012 5:00 am - Ÿ Local author Robert Goldsborough signs copies of his book “Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Mysteries,” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at The ...
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'Iron Curtain' reveals E. Europe's devastationNov 29, 2012 5:00 am - Writing from the multiple vantage points of individuals across Eastern Europe rather than the perspective of governments and political leaders, Anne Applebaum sheds long...
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Rowling’s home sold to Scottish businessmanNov 24, 2012 8:04 pm - The former Edinburgh home of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was sold to a Scottish-based businessman for an undisclosed sum. The Victorian two-story, eight-bedroom tow...
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Book tells how 18th-century newspapers covered warNov 24, 2012 1:59 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. — It was the 18th-century version of a tweet: a two-sentence, 25-word dispatch in a London newspaper reporting the American colonies had declared their inde...
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Library of Congress pulls diaries, letters from Civil WarNov 24, 2012 1:10 pm - WASHINGTON — Letters and diaries saved for 150 years from those who lived through the Civil War offer a new glimpse at the arguments that split the nation then and some ...
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'Hemingway Cocktail Companion' explores author and his drinksNov 22, 2012 10:00 pm - For the better part of a century, a certain type of young person has learned to drink from the pages of Ernest Hemingway. I should know. I'll sheepishly admit that I was...