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Nov 14 2007: The winners of the 2007 National Book Awards are:
Nov 13 2007: The Guardian reports that from next spring Picador UK will release all new novels in paperback editions, alongside a small run of hardbacks, breaking with the trade convention of staggered publication dates. Andrew Kidd, publisher of the prestigious Macmillan imprint...
Nov 12 2007: The Globe and Mail reports that the aggressive rise in value of the Canadian dollar against its U.S. counterpart (the Canadian dollar is now worth US $1.10) has created a charged environment in Canadian bookstores with consumers raging against the disparity between US ...
Nov 10 2007: Norman Mailer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and self-proclaimed heavyweight champion of postwar American letters, whose six decades in the public eye helped make him one of America's most acclaimed, and controversial authors, died this morning of acute renal failure ...
Nov 08 2007: Chile has returned almost 4,000 books to Peru's national library, more than a century after they were taken by Chilean soldiers. The soldiers pillaged the library after capturing the Peruvian capital, Lima, in 1881, during the War of the Pacific. Chile's director of ...
Nov 06 2007: 2007 marks the 10th anniversary of Random House Reader's Circle, and to celebrate this milestone, Random House Reader's Circle have launched their first annual Online Book Club Book Fair which is running from October 18 to November 19th. The Fair includes exclusive ...
Nov 05 2007: The Guardian reports that the French poet Yves Bonnefoy has received the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize awarded by the Prague-based Franz Kafka Society. The prize, worth $10,000, is awarded to "authors whose works of exceptional artistic qualities are found to appeal to...
Nov 03 2007: The Canadian dollar is now worth more than the US dollar ($1.05 US, its highest level since 1960), but the price disparity between goods remains as much as 30-40% higher in Canada, which is causing many Canadians to seek savings by shopping online at USA based stores. ...
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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