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Dec 02 2008: With politics and the economy foremost on the minds of many, it is no wonder that bailout—a word ubiquitously featured in discussions of the presidency and fiscal policy—took home honors as Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2008.
Dec 01 2008: Each year, as the holiday season comes around and the news stories start to dry
up, we look back into history for a snapshot of the news in centuries past, starting in 1608 ....
While the early settlers at Jamestown struggled for survival, London was a hive
of ...
Nov 21 2008: The shortlist for one of the few literary awards that writers don't want to win has been announced. The shortlist for this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award includes Simon Montefiore for Sashenka, John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick, Russell...
Nov 21 2008: Universal Pictures has made an overall deal with the estate of "The Bourne Identity" author Robert Ludlum that gives the studio exclusive rights to the Jason Bourne character and first look at other Ludlum novels.
The deal with Ludlum Entertainment paves the way for ...
Nov 20 2008: Barnes & Noble reported sales of $1.1 billion for their third quarter, and a net loss of $18.4 million. The results are below the company's previous guidance and analysts' diminished expectations--the operating loss of .21 a share compares to analysts' ...
Nov 19 2008: The winners of the 2008 National Book Awards were announced tonight, November
19, at the National Book Foundation's 59th National Book Awards Ceremony and
Benefit Dinner in New York City.
Fiction: Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country
Nonfiction: Annette ...
Nov 19 2008: In April 2008 Vladimir Nabokov's son announced that he planned to publish a controversial incomplete work by his father.
Now, some months later, 73-year-old Dmitri Nabokov is ready to reveal some of the book's details. Entitled The Original of Laura, it was written ...
Nov 18 2008: Five young fiction writers were recognized by the National Book Foundation at the "5 Under 35" celebration at Tribeca Cinemas on Monday, November 17. Each writer was selected by a previous National Book Award Finalist or Winner as someone whose work is particularly ...
Every good journalist has a novel in him - which is an excellent place for it.
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