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LONDON (AP) -- A British company has delayed publication of a controversial novel about one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives after its offices were fire-bombed, a magazine reported Saturday....
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for his poetic adventure and "sensual ecstasy." The Swedish Academy called Le Clezio, 68, an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a...(more)
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ONE FIFTH AVENUE By Candace Bushnell Voice. 433 pp. $25.95 Rather than structuring her tale around a group of girlfriends as she did in her previous print-to-screen successes, "Sex and the City" and "Lipstick Jungle," chick-lit matriarch Candace Bushnell focuses in her new novel on...(more)
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Marco Roth: The Nobel prize for literature doesn't really have much to do with literary excellence - and that's not a bad thing
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Alec Baldwin’s attack on the family law system is also a sad memoir of a marriage gone desperately sour.
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MR. PLAYBOY Hugh Hefner and the American Dream By Steven Watts Wiley. 529 pp. $29.95 "Mr. Playboy" is an encyclopedic, reverent, earnest, incredibly boring biography of Hugh Hefner, the man who invented Playboy magazine and, with the help of his daughter Christie, kept it and...(more)
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Philip Roth excavates and reimagines his life the way Balzac channeled Paris, Dickens reproduced London, and, perhaps most aptly, Heinrich Schliemann dug up Troy - as if his now 75 years constituted a buried city of vast undepletable import and depth.
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It might surprise you to learn that Cornelia Funke doesn't want all her young fans reading her newest book, "Inkdeath." "I always meant it for an older audience," said the German-born writer, who lives in California. "Inkdeath" is the last book in her "Inkheart" trilogy....(more)
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THE OTHER QUEEN By Philippa Gregory Touchstone. 438 pp. $25.95 Acynical observer might think the world could get along without another book about Mary Queen of Scots. The cynic would be missing a bet. Philippa Gregory's novel looks at Mary Stuart and her times from...(more)
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Sherry Jones' "The Jewel of Medina" reached bookstores Monday amid fears that the book about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride might lead to violence and threats. But the author said she had received no threats and was spending the day quietly, except...(more)
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THE KING OF RAGTIME By Larry Karp Poisoned Pen. 296 pp. $22.95 As this quirky little novel begins, it is August 1916 and black composer Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, has fallen on hard times. His glory days are long past. He's living in...(more)
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Susan Wise Bauer's new book, "The Art of the Public Grovel," traces the growing influence of public confession in America, touching on the roles of the Puritans, televangelists, group therapy and, of course, Oprah Winfrey. Bauer, who teaches American literature at the College of William...(more)
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