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Strand bookstore in NY urgently needs help from customers to help the store 'make a case against landmark status'

Dec 03 2018: The Strand Bookstore in New York City is asking its many customers to attend a public hearing on Tuesday morning morning to help the store "make a case against landmark status" for its store at 826-828 Broadway. The bookstore is concerned that, if the building is given ...

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Haruki Murakami and James Frey lead an all-male shortlist for the bad sex in fiction award

Dec 03 2018: The Literary Review has announced an all-male shortlist for that least-coveted of literary prizes, the Bad sex in fiction award.

Haruki Murakami, often named as a contender for the Nobel prize, makes the cut for passages from his latest novel Killing Commendatore ......

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Mystery Writers of America withdraws Linda Fairstein's Grand Master Edgar Award

Nov 30 2018: In the wake of increasing controversy over the naming of bestselling mystery author Linda Fairstein as one of next year's Grand Master Edgar recipients, Mystery Writers of America has withdrawn the award. Tuesday's announcement had sparked numerous protests on social ...

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The New Booker Prize winner who may never write again

Nov 30 2018: The New York Times has an extensive and moving interview with Anna Burns, who won this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel, Milkman which will be published in the USA on December 4:

Burns is one of the more surprising recent winners of the Booker, one of literature...

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Margaret Atwood Is writing a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Nov 28 2018: Following two years in which Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale saw a skyrocketing in readership and new cultural relevance, both on television and in society at large, the author has announced a sequel.

The Testaments, set 15 years after ...

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Netflix adapts Dahl's stories for original animated series

Nov 28 2018: Netflix will create an original animated series of Roald Dahl stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and The Twits.

"ald Dahl stories have long inspired award-winning feature films and stage productions," Netflix said in its ...

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Can Steve Jobs' wife save storytelling?

Nov 27 2018: Over the last few years, Ms. Powell Jobs, an activist, investor and entrepreneur, has been investing in media companies through her social impact firm, Emerson Collective. Buying up a range of unusual properties, she seems to be making an effort to turbocharge ...

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Costa Award shortlists announced

Nov 26 2018: The shortlists for the 2018 Costa Awards have been released. The five category winners will be announced on January 7 and the overall winner on January 29. The awards honor "some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the U.K. and Ireland....

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