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CHICAGO -- Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the "non-celebrated," died Friday. He was 96. Dan Terkell said his father died at home,...(more)
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Mr. Wharton was a successful painter whose first novel, “Birdy,” won a National Book Award and became a critically acclaimed movie.
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CHICAGO -- Oprah Winfrey announced Friday she'd chosen David Wroblewski's "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" as her latest book club pick, calling the debut novel a classic and the "best novel I've read in a long, long, long time." The book is already one of...(more)
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From The Times’s John Darnton, a murder mystery that unfolds in the newsroom of a thinly disguised family-run broadsheet headquartered near Times Square.
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The O. J. Simpson trial may be the last high-profile trial for Mr. Dunne, whose lengthy first-person columns in Vanity Fair portray celebrity defendants and his own personal celebrity.
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Cheryl Jarvis’s inspirational-bling book answers the question: What if 13 women split the cost of a diamond necklace and set up a system for sharing it?
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The Associated Press has learned that the senior vice president and publisher of adult trade books at Harcourt Houghton Mifflin has quit, effective December 10th....
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RIPLEY UNDER GROUND By Patricia Highsmith Norton. 285 pp. Paperback, $13.95 The Texas-born novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) had a decidedly unhappy childhood. Among other things, her parents separated before she was born, her mother later told her she'd tried to induce an abortion by drinking...(more)
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. M.T.Anderson is defending the intelligence of teenagers, and he's getting quite worked up about it. "It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should," says the author of "Feed" and, most recently, "The Astonishing Life...(more)
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WINNIE AND WOLF By A.N. Wilson Farrar Straus Giroux. 363 pp. $25 The complicated premise of the novel "Winnie and Wolf" is that somewhere in a dank, lonely flat in East Germany, a widower -- writing sometime after the year 1960 -- constructs "an extended...(more)
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BEYOND TOLERANCE Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America By Gustav Niebuhr Viking. 218 pp. $25.95 The thesis of Gustav Niebuhr's book could fit on an index card: In order to build a more peaceful world, humans need to move beyond mere tolerance of one another's...(more)
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For decades high-profile figures from politics and the media have enjoyed well-paid speaking engagements. But now a host of industries that regularly book speakers are examining their budgets.
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