Literature
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Dexter Filkins is among fine war writers
Sep 28, 2008 11:00 pm - For generations, war correspondence has been a hallowed art of journalism, a specialty craft in which even the most deft and skilled writers often fail -- or for good re...
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Purr-fect ending to battle over Hemingway's cats
Sep 24, 2008 11:00 pm - KEY WEST, Fla. -- The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's island home aren't going anywhere. The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum announced Thursday it reached an ...
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Spy-turned-novelist John le Carre adapts to changing times
Sep 24, 2008 11:00 pm - The spying game is not what it used to be. That is a matter of regret for John le Carre, eminent novelist and former spy, who has done more than almost any other writer ...
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Best sellersSep 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Fiction 1. The Book of Lies, Brad Meltzer 2. American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld 3. Anathem, Neal Stephenson 4. The Host, Stephenie Meyer 5. Dark Curse, Christine Feehan ...
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Jackie, the editing years, is subject of new book
Sep 22, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Jacqueline Kennedy's years as a book editor, many of them at Doubleday, will be the subject of a Doubleday book coming out in 2011. Historian William Kuhn, w...
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Visitors flock to timber town for Twilight's magic
Sep 21, 2008 11:00 pm - FORKS, Wash. -- Pounding rain and heavy mist are constant in this timber town where logging's decline left a graveyard of rusting timber mills and unemployment. Business...
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Schaumburg native helps give life to Holocaust survival storySep 21, 2008 11:00 pm - After years of hustling for work in Los Angeles, Schaumburg native Brian Brock was thinking about ending his freelance writing career. Then he met Pierre Berg. The two ...
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'American Wife' imagines the life of a first ladySep 18, 2008 11:00 pm - In January 2004, Curtis Sittenfeld had not yet published her first novel when she declared in an essay for Salon that she was a proud liberal who loathed George Bush but...
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Libel suit against John Grisham dismissed
Sep 17, 2008 11:00 pm - OKLAHOMA CITY -- A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against best-selling author John Grisham and two other writers over books they wrote about the wrong...
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Zits and the City? Teen novels coming about Carrie
Sep 16, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Meet Carrie Bradshaw, in her teenage years. "Sex and the City" author Candace Bushnell is writing a pair of teen novels, "The Carrie Diaries," that "takes re...