Literature
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Clark's new thriller is about kidnapping
Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - For Mary Jane Clark fans, the most thrilling TV network has to be KEY. The fictional company has some very nasty anchors, producers and correspondents who would do anyth...
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'Good People' is a tightly written yarn
Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - When Tom and Anna Reed investigate a beeping smoke alarm in their downstairs tenant's apartment, they discover a grease fire blazing on the kitchen stove and the tenant ...
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New book gives Doris her dayJul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - David Kaufman comes right to the point at the start of his life of Doris Day: "Day has been largely and unfairly neglected by cultural arbiters." Day's career is not som...
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A sci-fi publishing odyssey
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - PALATINE - Arthur C. Clarke's health was failing fast, but he still had a story to tell. So he turned to fellow science fiction writer Frederik Pohl, and together the lo...
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Joyce Carol Oates enters 'tabloid hell'
Jul 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Some of Oates' books feel as if she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest. Oates sets out to solve a fictionalized version of the J...
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Diagnosis shapes family ties in 'The Condition'Jul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - "Happy families are all alike," Tolstoy famously observed in "Anna Karenina," but "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Unless, of course, you're dealing wit...
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French artist inspires local author's bookJul 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Miles Harvey wrote a book about a man who wouldn't speak with him, and now he's written another, but this time the subject has a convenient excuse: He lived and died alm...
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Harris goes straight in latest novel
Jul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA -- Best selling writer E. Lynn Harris can still remember the first time he realized he was poor. His family had been invited to the housewarming of a well-to-do ...
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Kay Ryan is named poet laureate
Jul 16, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain bike rider and self-described "modern hermit," will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thu...
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Author Danielle Steel writes to 'give people hope'
Jul 15, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- It's only 9:33 a.m., but already Danielle Steel is having a lousy morning. She's in a Rockefeller Plaza dressing room, having her hair tugged and her makeup ...