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Oct 01 2007: Amazon announced the launch of its Breakthrough Novel Award in cooperation with Penguin and Hewlett-Packard. Amazon will accept submissions through November 5 and the winner will have his or her novel published by Penguin, which is offering a $25,000 advance. The ...
Sep 25 2007: The National Book Foundation will honor five authors under the age of 35 in a celebration dubbed "5 Under 35" on November 10. The authors are Kristin Allio (Garner, Coffee House Press, 2005), Dinaw Mengetsu (The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, ...
Sep 24 2007: Wags, yummy mummies, ya-yas, cattle class, heaviosity and a host of other new words have made it to the latest five-yearly revision of the Oxford English Dictionary, published today. In addition, there's been a mass removal of hyphens, with more than 16,000 removed in ...
Sep 23 2007: French mime artist Marcel Marceau died Saturday at the age of 84. Born in Strasbourg in 1923 as Marcel Mangel he became famous for his creation Bip - the sad, white-faced clown in a striped jumper and a battered silk opera hat. He continued to perform until he was in...
Sep 19 2007: According to School Library Journal, some New York City students may soon be $50 richer due to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s new pilot program, Opportunity NYC, which aims to break the cycle of poverty by offering families financial incentives for promoting education. In...
Sep 17 2007: James Oliver Rigney Jr, creator of the Wheel of Time series under the pseudonym Robert Jordan, died at the Medical University of South Carolina on Sunday having battled cardiac amyloidosis for the past year. The disease attacks the body's major organs; in Rigney's ...
Sep 17 2007: Alan Greenspan, who served as Federal Reserve chairman for 18 years and was the leading Republican economist for the past three decades, levels unusually harsh criticism at President Bush and the Republican Party in his 531-page memoir, The Age of Turbulence: ...
Sep 13 2007: Author, philanthropist and literary entrepreneur Dave Eggers has become the youngest person ever to win one of the annual $250,000 awards from the Heinz Family Foundation.
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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