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Oct 31 2010: Dutch writer Harry Mulisch, author of The Assault (De Aanslag) and The Discovery of Heaven (De ontdekking van de Hemel), has died at the age of 83. Mulisch wrote more than 30 works, several with a World War II theme. He was considered by many a candidate for the ...
Oct 28 2010: With the blessing of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the widow of Alexander Solzhenitsyn is unveiling an abridged version of his celebrated and once-banned "The Gulag Archipelago" as required reading for Russian high school seniors about the crimes of the Soviet regime.
Oct 25 2010: Amazon has fought long and hard to avoid collecting sales tax in states where it believes it does not have nexus, and for the most part has been successful. But in its quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday morning, the online retailer ...
Oct 24 2010: In the latest--and perhaps final --round of a bitter battle for a control of the John Steinbeck literary estate, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week affirmed an earlier dismissal of claims brought by Steinbeck’s son, Thomas ...
Oct 22 2010: Eva Ibbotson, much-loved children's book author, whose titles include Which Witch? and The Secret of Platform 13, died this week aged 85.
Oct 20 2010: Waiting for 'Superman', the documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim about problems in the public school system and how to fix them, had a limited release October 8 and is now rolling out nationally. Last weekend the movie played in 182 theaters, was #18 and had ticket ...
Oct 18 2010: Belva Plain died last week at the age of 95. The author of more than 20 bestselling books and known for epic novels of family and forgiveness, she never owned a computer and wrote in longhand on a yellow pad.
Oct 13 2010: The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Titles in the running for the Fiction award include Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss's Great House and Lionel Shriver's So Much for That.
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