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Sep 15 2008: In a lengthy article about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the New York Times explores the book banning issue:
"The new mayor also tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to ...
Sep 15 2008: David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide.
Sep 12 2008: "The Economist" reports on the good health of small town libraries in America's "land of mountains and cattle", noting that the average Wyoming resident checked out nine books in 2005-06, compared with an average of five in California and two in Washington, DC.
Sep 09 2008: J. K. Rowling got her wish on Monday when a federal judge blocked a librarian from publishing a guidebook to her Harry Potter series that was to be published by librarian Steven Jan Vander Ark. In a 68-page ruling released on Monday, Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of ...
Sep 09 2008: The Man Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. Notably absent from the list is Salman Rushdie, who UK 'bookies' had tipped to win.
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White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes ...
Sep 09 2008: The McCain-Palin team is continuing its pushback campaign against stories about VP nominee Sarah Palin banning books while mayor of Wasilla, and in particular to a lengthy list of books that it is said she banned (which is now known to be false - as some of the books ...
Sep 08 2008: Mary Ellen Baker, the librarian at the center of the Sarah Palin book-banning controversy, may not be talking to the press, but librarians around the country are voicing their concerns about having an alleged censor on the Republican ticket — through a blog called "...
Sep 08 2008: The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. It also figures in the dreams of newspaper publishers struggling with rising production and delivery costs, lower circulation ...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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