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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 ...
Sep 08 2008: Editor and publisher Robert Giroux, who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century (including T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Susan Sontag and Virginia Woolfe) and ultimately added his name to one of the nation’s most distinguished ...
Sep 06 2008: Publishers Weekly provides top line stats from the Veronis Suhler Stevenson Communications Industry Forecast, including the following:
109: Hours adults spent reading a book for pleasure, 2007
85: Hours persons 12+ spent playing videogames, 2007
1,613: Hours ...
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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