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NEW YORK (AP) -- The country's largest trade publisher, Random House Inc., has frozen the pensions of its current employees and eliminated them for future hires, the latest cutback in an industry hit by declining sales and anticipating, at best, a difficult 2009....
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NEW YORK, Nov. 19 -- Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night for "The Hemingses of Monticello," her multigenerational portrait of a family once lost to American history. Accepting the award, Gordon-Reed spoke of "the journey that black people in this...(more)
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Upon his election in 1992, Bill Clinton - affectionately referred to as the nation's first black president - asked Maya Angelou to compose a poem and read it at his inauguration. Angelou feels a new poem welling up inside her following Barack...(more)
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- On the Navajo Nation where tribal members sometimes hesitate to open up to outsiders, they embraced Tony Hillerman as an honest and genuine man who wanted to learn about their culture and get the details right....
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Philip Hensher's "The Northern Clemency" is a British novel that as of Sunday had yet to attract any customer reviews on Amazon.com. But the online retailer's staff reviewers have noticed well, making it Amazon's book of the year....
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Robert J. Samuelson says historians have not understood the significance of the “Great Inflation” that raged through the economy in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The family of Michael Crichton, the million-selling author of such historic and prehistoric science fantasies as "Jurassic Park," "Timeline" and "The Andromeda Strain," says the author has died in Los Angeles....
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An exiled Afghan writer won France's top literary prize on Monday for his novel about the misery of a woman caring for a husband left brain-damaged by a war wound.
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The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture comes with its own bright green carrying case — which is good, because the 800-page compilation weighs nearly 15 pounds.
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Tony Hillerman's fans knew him as a compelling mystery writer who gave readers around the world a glimpse into the land and culture of the Navajo.
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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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