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“The Newlyweds,” Nell Freudenberger’s novel, is about a woman from Bangladesh who travels to Rochester to marry a man she met on an online dating site.
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New wall text accompanying the Metropolitan Museum of Art's popular "The Steins Collect" exhibition - more than 200 works that demonstrate the influence of Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael and her sister-in-law Sarah as 20th century art patrons - will acknowledge Gertrude's affiliation with...(more)
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The author of a self-published diet book that advocates skipping breakfast and taking cold baths has agreed to lucrative deals with British and U.S. publishers.
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This long book about the short life of the novelist and poet Richard Brautigan distills San Francisco and Montana in the 1960s and ’70s and the wild lives of the subject and his friends.
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In Richard Ford’s new novel, a 15-year-old boy watches his family fall apart, and flees north to something even worse.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Actress Garcelle Beauvais is planning to share life lessons through a series of children's books....
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Technology, metaphysics and the art and science of putting together a broken heart and a nonfunctioning machine are central to Peter Carey’s novel “The Chemistry of Tears.”
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A new biography of David Hockney traces his early life and work in England and Los Angeles up to 1975, including fascinating accounts of how some well-known paintings evolved.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin hasn't yet figured out how to put the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on the silver screen, but he is certain it's not going to be a straightforward biography.
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The author of "Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes" shares the books she loved most when she was young.
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Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage is a great introduction to the murder mystery genre geared towards preteens.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language....
