Literature
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William S. Merwin named 17th U.S. poet laureateJun 30, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A writer who stopped using punctuation in the 1960s and spent much of the last 30 years secluded in Hawaii will become the nation's next chief poet. The Li...
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Not eating, but still cooking: Roger Ebert pens cookbookJun 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Cancer may have robbed Roger Ebert of the ability to eat, but it won't stop him from dishing out cooking advice. Four years after cancer surgery left the famed film crit...
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Barbara Eden fans can soon read of Jeannie, tooJun 28, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Barbara Eden says she's been bottled up long enough. The 75-year-old former star of "I Dream of Jeannie" is writing a memoir to be published by Crown Archety...
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Seattle writer wins 2010 bad writing contestJun 28, 2010 11:00 pm - SAN JOSE, Calif. -- An unseemly sentence that compares a kiss to the union of a thirsty gerbil and a giant water bottle has won the top prize in an annual bad writing co...
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'Bree Tanner' million-seller in less than a monthJun 27, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Stephenie Meyer, author of the "Twilight Saga," has yet another smash hit on her hands. "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: an Eclipse Novella" has scored...
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Jeffrey Toobin writing new Supreme Court bookJun 27, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Jeffrey Toobin, who examined the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court in his best seller "The Nine," probes the court under the Obama administration in h...
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'The Last of the Tribe' tells lone Indian's taleJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Monte Reel gets right to the heart of the dilemma facing modern-day Brazil as its rush to develop the vast Amazon rain forest rapidly collides with the last vestiges of ...
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Cabot spins own sequel to Bram Stoker's classicJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Trouble is brewing in the Big Apple, and Meena Harper is at the heart of it. Barely making ends meet as a writer for a soap opera called "Insatiable," Meena is told that...
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Doyle's wit and insight overshadowed by gimmicksJun 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Despite an abundance of otherworldly encounters and bizarre mutant inhabitants, J!m Anderson's teenage angst and coming-of-age story may seem familiar. It should. After ...
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Author appearancesJun 22, 2010 11:00 pm - • Meet author Joyce Wold as she signs copies of her children's book, "God's Creations," at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 26, at Borders Books and Music, 2221 Richmond Road, McH...