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Jun 16 2011: Harry Potter fans have been reacting with excitement to a mysterious website launched by J K Rowling. Pottermore.com features a pink holding page with the description "coming soon" and Rowling's signature underneath. A spokesman for J K Rowling confirms that "It is ...
Jun 08 2011: Lilian Jackson Braun, author of the well-known and much beloved "Cat Who" mysteries, the first of which published in 1966, died on June 4 at the age of 97.
Jun 08 2011: 25-year-old Serbian-American author Tea Obreht has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife.. Set in the Balkans, the book tells the story of a young doctor tracing the life of her grandfather.
The annually awarded Orange Prize ...
Jun 07 2011: Yesterday, Apple reported that about 130 million books have been downloaded from the iBookstore. This statement was followed by the announcement of Apple's iCloud, "a free new service available that will synch content on Apple devices with servers in Apple's data ...
Jun 02 2011: Earlier this week, the California State Assembly followed a number of other states in passing a bill "aimed at closing a legal loophole that allows internet retailers to avoid collecting California sales taxes on purchases made via computer.
The state and local ...
Jun 01 2011: Poets from the 205 Olympic nations are competing to be part of "Poetry Parnassus", the UK's largest ever poetry festival, which will take place from 26 June to 2 July 2012 as part of the Olympic festivities. Members of the public around the world are being asked to ...
May 31 2011: The unsecured creditors' committee in the Borders Group bankruptcy has asked the judge in the case not to accept Borders's request for a four-month extension of the mid-June deadline for filing a plan to get out of bankruptcy. The unsecured creditors' committee includes...
May 31 2011: In the ongoing saga of whether Amazon will or won't build a distribution center in South Carolina ... last week the South Carolina Senate approved a measure that will not require Amazon to collect sales taxes on purchases by state residents for five years, but the ...
L.A. Women by Ella Berman
Two ambitious writers in 1960s LA face betrayal when one writes a novel based on the other's life.
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