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"The Year of Magical Thinking" on Broadway

Mar 19 2007: "The Year of Magical Thinking", adapted by Joan Didion from her bestselling memoir, is already playing at the Booth Theatre, New York, but will officially open on March 29th. Vanessa Redgrave stars in the 95 minute show with no intermission, directed by David Hare ("...

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Shortlist for 29th Annual Oddest Book Title Announced

Mar 13 2007: The Bookseller, Britain's leading publishing magazine, has revealed its shortlist for the 29th Annual Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year.  The six titles are:

• How Green Were the Nazis?
• D. Di Mascio’s Delicious Ice Cream: D. Di Mascio of Coventry: An...

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Non-digitized resources in danger of disappearing from cultural memory

Mar 12 2007: The New York Times reports that as electronic resources increasingly become the main tool for gathering information by both amateur researches and serious scholars (sometimes the only tool), items left behind in non-digital form are in danger of disappearing from the ...

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A new golden age of young adult literature

Mar 10 2007: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that a new 'golden age of young adult literature' has been declared.

"Kids are buying books in quantities we've never seen before," said Booklist magazine critic Michael Cart, a leading authority on young adult literature. "And ...

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"The Namesake" opens to very good reviews

Mar 09 2007: "The Namesake", based on Jhumpa Lahiri's novel of the same name, opens in movie theaters today. The critics' rating at rottentomatoes.com is 89%, ranking it as "cream of the crop". The film critic for the Wall Street Journal says, "This immensely pleasurable film is . ...

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National Book Critics Circle winners announced

Mar 09 2007: The National Book Critics Circle awards were announced last night, the winners are:

• Fiction: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
• Nonfiction: Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
• Biography: James Tiptree, Jr.: ...

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British Book Awards shortlists announced

Mar 08 2007: The shortlists for the Galaxy British Book Awards, (known as the "Nibbies" in the trade, and billed to the public as "the Oscars of the book trade") have been announced. With about 10 different prizes sponsored primarily by large retailers, such as Readers Digest, ...

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Terrorists bomb Baghdad book market

Mar 06 2007: A suicide bomber struck the book market on Mutanabi Street in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 20, wounding more than 65 and destroying many bookstores and stationery shops.

An Iraqi colonel on the scene said the suicide car bomb, which was loaded with gas ...

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