Literature
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The man with the easiest life in the world gets back to vintage material
Feb 05, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- John Grisham has no desire to ever run for office again. Though his name pops up every now and then on ballots in Virginia and Mississippi, the mega-selling ...
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T.C. Boyle's Frank Lloyd Wright novel falls short
Feb 04, 2009 10:00 pm - It's odd that "The Women," T.C. Boyle's new historical novel about America's greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, seems to have little to say about architecture, or f...
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Dorsey crafts insane plot in 'Nuclear Jellyfish'
Feb 04, 2009 10:00 pm - Tim Dorsey's publisher tries to promote his books by sending plot summaries to book reviewers. This does not do the writer any favors. The summaries make the plots sound...
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Reporter writes on Iran after Ahmadinejad's rise
Feb 02, 2009 10:00 pm - Iran is more than just its hardline Islamic rulers and their alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons. In her memoir "Honeymoon in Tehran: Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran...
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Ex-'American Gladiator' tells steroid-soaked tale
Feb 01, 2009 10:00 pm - "Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage and Redemption" (Scribner, 256 pages, $25), by Dan Clark: Most super heroes suffer a radioactive accident or lightning strike or...
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The hunt goes electric: Clancy books going digital
Jan 28, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Tom Clancy is going digital. The author of such blockbusters as "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger" is finally making his work available electroni...
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John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76
Jan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of...
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The horror! Neil Gaiman's spooky book wins Newbery
Jan 25, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oh, the horror: Neil Gaiman has received the top prize for children's literature: The John Newbery Medal. "I am so wonderfully befuddled," the best-selling a...
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Comedian Chris Rock has a book deal
Jan 12, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Chris Rock is making a comeback, as an author. Grand Central Publishing says Rock's new book -- not yet titled -- will be full of "comedic observations." It'...
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Author's new novel takes on suburbiaJan 10, 2009 10:00 pm - William Elliott Hazelgrove admits part of his fame as a novelist is tied to his proximity to another author: the late Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway. More than a decade...