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Canin pens a great political novel with 'America America'

By Ron Charles The Washington Post
Jul 08, 2008 11:00 pm - "America America" is Ethan Canin's best novel, but its timing is unnerving. His ruminative story begins with a funeral for the country's greatest liberal senator, whose ...
Suburban crime inspires local reporter-turned-novelist

By Jamie Sotonoff
Jul 07, 2008 11:00 pm - There used to be a piece of paper tacked up on a bulletin board inside the Gurnee Police Department's investigations area that said: "Whenever a man commits a crime, God...
Sci-fi author's estate embroiled in will dispute

Associated Press
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Andre Norton, one of science fiction's most prolific female writers until she died three years ago, intrigued her readers by creating hundreds of ...
Author traces how Kama Sutra became worldwide epic

Associated Press
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - There's something almost magical about the words "Kama Sutra." They conjure up images of hidden passion, of mystical eroticism, of countless lovemaking positions that ar...
Sedaris' new book: more mature, thoughtful writer

Associated Press
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - OAKLAND, Calif. -- Pick up David Sedaris' new book and you're staring at death. If the van Gogh painting of a skeleton gracing the cover doesn't say it clearly enough, t...
'Well Enough Alone' details a life of hypochondria

Associated Press
Jul 06, 2008 11:00 pm - In our current age of anxiety, medical-themed TV shows and WebMD, most of us -- at one time or another -- have inflated a pimple into cancer or a stomachache into append...
New book looks at the history of the 'American Nerd'

By A.J. Jacobs For The Washington Post
Jul 03, 2008 11:00 pm - When I was assigned this review, the editor wrote me a note: "I hope you don't take offense at this, but your name sprang to mind as a reviewer for a book on nerds." I p...
George F. Will, elder statesman

Associated Press
Jun 29, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- George F. Will, the conservative columnist and pundit, seems too young and young-looking to be anyone's "elder statesman." He is 67, his hair still boyishl...
Serial killer and suspect president

Associated Press
Jun 29, 2008 11:00 pm - It's a common plot ploy: A detective takes what looks like an easy job and winds up running for her life. That's the situation in which Dana Cutler finds herself when sh...
Best sellers

Jun 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Fiction 1. Sail, James Patterson and Howard Roughan 2. The Host, Stephenie Meyer 3. Nothing to Lose, Lee Child 4. Plague Ship, Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul 5. ...

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