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Prominent Hong Kong publisher arrested under new national security law

Aug 10 2020: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and several executives at the media company he founded have been arrested for colluding with foreign forces, the highest profile arrests thus far under a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing just over a month ago.

Lai, 71...

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Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for writers are very real.

Aug 07 2020: Alan Dershowitz, who is a real lawyer, claims he has been defamed by Benjamin Dafoe, who is a fictional lawyer. "The Good Fight," which streams on CBS All Access, frequently revolves around ripped-from-the-headlines events. On May 28, the legal drama aired an episode ...

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Sean Hannity removes 'gobbledygook' Latin motto from book cover

Aug 05 2020: The Latin motto on Fox News anchor Sean Hannity’s new book has been changed after the original was described as “complete and utter gobbledygook” by a classics student.

Hannity’s Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink, which argues “now is an All ...

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Pete Hamill, journalist and author dies at 85

Aug 05 2020: Pete Hamill, a high school dropout who turned a gift for storytelling, a fascination with characters and a romance with tabloid newspapers into a storied career as a New York journalist, novelist and essayist for more than a half century, died on Wednesday in Brooklyn. ...

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O, The Oprah Magazine ends regular print editions in favor of greater digital presence

Jul 31 2020: In a July 29 statement Hearst announced that the last regular edition of "O, The Oprah Magazine" would be December. Instead it will focus on OprahMag.com which launched in 2018.

According to Kristen O’Hara, chief business officer of Hearst Magazines, "there will be a...

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Book sales in France up 29% year on year since lockdown eased

Jul 30 2020: Sales by French independent booksellers rose by 29% year on year between May 12--the day after France began its gradual easing of the lockdown--and July 12, according to the French Booksellers Association (Syndicat de la Librairie Française).

Vincent Montagne, ...

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The 2020 Booker Prize longlist announced

Jul 28 2020: The longlist (known as 'The Booker Dozen') for The 2020 Booker Prize is announced today.

The list was chosen from 162 novels published in the UK or Ireland between October 2019 and September 2020. The Booker Prize for Fiction is open to writers of any nationality, ...

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Four-year-old lands book deal for his 'astonishing' poetry

Jul 22 2020: Keats’s first book of poetry was published when he was 21; Mary Shelley was 18 when she started writing Frankenstein. But both of their youthful achievements are dwarfed by the newest star in the UK’s poetry firmament: four-year-old Nadim Shamma-Sourgen, who has just ...

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