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Apr 03 2009: On the week that President Barack Obama paid his first official visit to the UK at the G20 summit, he left with an unexpected piece of luggage - a British Book Awards Nibbie as the winner of the Biography of the Year for Dreams From My Father. Other winners include:
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Mar 31 2009: The Daily Telegraph (UK) reports on research that shows that just six minutes of reading can reduce stress levels by 2/3rds:
"Subjects only needed to read, silently, for six minutes to slow down the heart rate and ease tension in the muscles, he found. In fact it got...
Mar 31 2009: To the relief of book publishers, it appears that Borders has been given another 12 months to sort itself out financially with the announcement that leading shareholder and lender of last resort Pershing Square has extended their $42.5 million loan until April 1, 2010 -...
Mar 30 2009: Galley Cat reports on the ongoing problems with pirated copies of books such as J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Ken Follett's World Without End appearing on the popular file-sharing site, Scribd.
Mar 30 2009: The New York Times has seen a fall in stock price from $50 in 2001 to $4 today. Mark Bowden, writing in Vanity Fair, offers an extensive profile of the newspaper and its fourth generation publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Mar 27 2009: The Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year has been won by "The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais". "Baboon Metaphysics" and "Curbside Consultation of the Colon" finished second and third.
Mar 27 2009: The New York Times reports on the new and fast growing market for "ghost Twitterers" to write the pithy 140 Twitter postings for famous people.
As the NY Times puts it, "The famous, of course, have turned to ghostwriters for autobiographies and other acts of self-...
Mar 26 2009: John Hope Franklin, a prolific scholar of African-American history who profoundly influenced thinking about slavery and Reconstruction while helping to further the civil rights struggle, died Wednesday in Durham, N.C. He was 94.
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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