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Yasmina Reza publishes new novel in France
Yasmina Reza, the Tony Award-winning French dramatist whose stage hits include "Art" and "God of Carnage," has a new work out this month but it isn't a play. Reza has published a new novel in France titled "Heureux les Heureux." The 190-page book...
Tags: Berlin (Germany), Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Literature, French Literature
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The last typewriter made in the U.K. has left the building
The last typewriter to be made in the U.K. has rolled off the production line -- and straight into London's Science Museum. Brother has been making typewriters in the U.K. since 1985, the BBC reports, producing 5.9 million typewriters at its Wrexham...
Tags: Science and Technology, Media Industry, Karl Rove, United Kingdom, Michael Jackson
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Karl Rove likes reading Jorge Luis Borges. Yes, that Karl Rove.
Karl Rove: Fox News commentator, conservative who caused consternation on election night, major Republican strategist. And fan of metafictional writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yes, really. The news comes from Rove's own website (via Twitter). Since 2010, Rove...
Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Twitter, Inc., David Foster Wallace
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Hans Keilson dies at 101; author fled Nazis, recently drew great acclaim
Hans Keilson was a newly minted physician in the mid-1930s when the persecution began. As a Jew in Hitler's Germany, he was stripped of the right to practice medicine. A writer, he soon lost that identity too: His autobiographical first novel was pulped...Tags: Anne Frank, Human Interest, Refugee, William Faulkner, Nazi Party
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On the Web: A literary marriage, a writer's lessons and more book news
Jacket CopyLibrarians meet, a 75-year-old author weds and an Oscar-winning writer shares his secrets in today's book news.... -
Google doodle celebrates Jorge Luis Borges' 112th birthday
Jacket CopyJorge Luis Borges is celebrated by Google on his 112th birthday.... -
Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Star Sailing, Samuel Beckett, Robert Bly, Mexico City
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Book review: 'The Information' by James Gleick
Los Angeles Times Book CriticThe Information A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick Pantheon: 531 pp., $29.95 Partway through "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood," James Gleick describes a technological innovation so transformative that it was heralded as "one of...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Euclid, Journalism, Tom Stoppard, Human Interest
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Five literary treats to last all year long
Jacket CopyFive literary treats that will last through 2011: free short stories, a new app, near-extinct words and author interviews form the Paris Review.... -
A lifetime bond over books
Times Television CriticEvery Christmas when I was a child and even as a young adult, I knew which present I would open last. Deep under the tree, covered with fallen needles and those home-made paper ornaments you save for the lowest branches, lay a large box. Originally used...Tags: Margaret Drabble, Jane Austen, Christmas, Willa Cather, Holidays
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Would Borges have been a fan of Wikipedia?
Jacket CopyArgentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges died in 1986, 15 years before Wikipedia was launched. Yet if he'd seen it, he probably would have liked it quite a bit. Denis Dutton, author of "The Art Instinct" (2008), has recently posted an...... -
Amazon content coup? E-tailer gets exclusive Roth, Mailer, Nabokov and Updike backlist
Jacket CopyAmazon.com now has exclusive rights to sell the e-book versions of some of the best-known titles from top literary authors Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike and more. In an announcement late Wednesday -- shortly after midnight...
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