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Norris Church Mailer, artist and wife of Norman Mailer, dies aged 61

Nov 22 2010: Norris Church Mailer, a woman bred in the rural poverty of Arkansas who married Norman Mailer and managed his career and family life over three decades while carving out her own niche as a writer, died of cancer on Sunday at her home in Brooklyn Heights. She was 61.

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Surprise wins at the National Book Awards

Nov 18 2010: This year's National Book Awards winners were announced last night.

Arguably the biggest surprise of the evening was Jaime Gordon's win in the Fiction category for Lord of Misrule, which beat Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss's ...

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Kindle book stirs controversy

Nov 15 2010: The backlash continues regarding Amazon's handling last week of a controversial Kindle book offering advice to pedophiles

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Newsweek and The Daily Beast to merge

Nov 12 2010: Newsweek magazine is merging with news website The Daily Beast, it has been announced.

It will bring together one of US publishing's oldest names with one of its newest, under the stewardship of former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown.

Newsweek, established in 1933, ...

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Giller Prize-winner hard to find due to limited supply

Nov 12 2010: This week, The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud won the Giller Prize which honors the best of Canadian writing, but don't expect to find print copies of the book flooding shelves anytime soon - tiny publisher Gaspereau is running at max, hand printing just 1000 ...

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot wins the Wellcome Trust Book Prize

Nov 10 2010: Ten years in the making, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - a beautiful but harrowing work of non-fiction by Rebecca Skloot - has won the second Wellcome Trust Book Prize worth 25,000 UK pounds (about US $40,000)

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Johanna Skibsrud wins Giller Prize for The Sentimentalists

Nov 10 2010: Johanna Skibsrud is the winner of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, worth Canadian $50,000 honoring the best in Canadian literature.

Her voice quavering, the 30-year-old Nova Scotian thanked her publisher Gaspereau Press, which brought out her first novel, The ...

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Court rules that teachers' First Amendment Rights stop at the school door

Nov 02 2010: English teacher Shelley Evans-Marshall gave her ninth-grade class an assignment featuring the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books - and lost her job because of it.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ...

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