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France's Le Clezio wins Nobel literature prize

Associated Press
Oct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensual ec...
Hefner: The man behind Playboy

Associated Press
Oct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - In 1953, Hugh Hefner was a young man in Chicago with an unimpressive resume and big plans. He would start a men's magazine geared toward young urbanites such as himself ...
Should Iranian diplomats wear creased pants?

Associated Press
Oct 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Should Iranian diplomats pursue their duties in neatly creased trousers, as their Western counterparts tend to do? Probably not. It's hearsay, but author Hooman Majd, so...
Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed retiring

Associated Press
Oct 07, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in the Sunday funnies and the hearts of "Opus" fans. The last strip featuri...
Best sellers

Associated Press
Oct 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Fiction 1. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski 2. Heat Lightning, John Sandford 3. The Given Day, Dennis Lehane 4. Hot Mahogany, Stuart Woods 5. The Other Qu...
'Boleyn' author Gregory coming to Naperville

By Laura Milbrath Stewart
Oct 02, 2008 11:00 pm - • Meet Cathleen Falsani, author of "Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace," as she reads from and signs copies of her book from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the Wheaton ...
Change of fortune makes for book-title bloopers

By Louise Radnofsky The Wall Street Journal
Oct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - A financial crisis, a historic presidential campaign and a series of political scandals have scrambled how people understand the world in the past few years. For some au...
Bestsellers

Associated Press
Oct 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Fiction 1. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski 2. The Other Queen, Philippa Gregory 3. Faefever, Karen Marie Moning 4. The Host, Stephenie Meyer 5. The Book...
Lehane leaves thrillers behind in 'Given Day'

By Jonathan Yardley The Washington Post
Sep 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Dennis Lehane is the preeminent contemporary chronicler of Boston generally and the Boston Irish specifically. Because many of his books have featured the private detect...
Dexter Filkins is among fine war writers

Associated Press
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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