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Wallace novel renews debate about posthumous books
David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King," the year's most awaited and complicated literary novel, has renewed a very old debate. Published 2 1-2 years after his suicide, "The Pale King" is a 547-page postmodern testament set in an IRS office that (...)

17 - 04 - 2011
Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored
Mark Twain was the kind of man who might tell an off-color joke, then grievously apologize, who wrote stories and essays he knew would offend and kept others private for the same reason. A century after his death, Mark Twain remains censored, and (...)

13 - 01 - 2011
Obama children's book already a hit
President Obama is still a hit with the nation's book buyers. Obama's tribute to 13 American ground breakers, "Of Thee I Sing," was in the top 25 on Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com as of Wednesday morning, less than two days after the children's (...)

19 - 09 - 2010
Mamet-speak: eggs, coffee, the talking walrus
Early this summer, David Mamet turned on the telecast of the Tony Awards, for which his play "Race" had received a nomination for best featured actor. After a few minutes, and the long kiss between host Sean Hayes and "Promises, Promises" co-star (...)

26 - 08 - 2010
Pat Conroy and the e-book futureHillel Italie
Pat Conroy says he knows so little about e-books that he didn't realize his work could be downloaded until a fan showed him during a recent promotional tour. "I was at a signing in Georgia, and a guy came up to me with a Kindle and he (...)

16 - 08 - 2010
The scoop on unauthorized celeb books: fewer sales
Put Angelina Jolie's face on a magazine cover and sales will surely rise. Get her to write a memoir and it would be worth millions. But write a book about her, without her cooperation, and you're taking a chance. Coming a week after the release (...)

04 - 08 - 2010
Breaking up is hard: Poems a tough fit in e-form
Billy Collins, one of the country's most popular poets, had never seen his work in e-book form until he recently downloaded his latest collection on his Kindle. He was unpleasantly surprised. "I found that even in a very small font that (...)

16 - 07 - 2010
Here's the Hitch: Hitchens writes a memoir
The coffee is strong, the wine a dry red poured from a tall, swanlike beaker. On a sunny afternoon at his apartment near Dupont Circle, Christopher Hitchens holds up a Marlboro Light between cigar-shaped fingers and discusses the hitch of writing (...)

30 - 06 - 2010
'Catcher in the Rye' author JD Salinger dies
JD Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose The Catcher in the Rye shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91. Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author s (...)

29 - 01 - 2010
Nobel lit prize goes to little-known European
The judges, apparently, could not help themselves. Just two days after a Nobel Prize official worried the literature committee was too Eurocentric, the winner for 2009 was Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born writer once censored in her native (...)

09 - 10 - 2009
Actors remember filmmaker Hughes as influential
The actors made famous by writer-director John Hughes are extolling his talents after his death, calling him influential and one of the giants for capturing the youth market in the 1980s and 90s with such favorites as The Breakfast Club, Ferris (...)

07 - 08 - 2009
'Angela's Ashes' author McCourt dies in NYC at 78
Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of Angela s Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of woe about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer. McCourt, (...)

20 - 07 - 2009
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