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(Newser) - David Foster Wallace declared war on depression and addiction in writing his last, unfinished novel, D. T. Max writes in the New Yorker. The writer's suicide by hanging last year was the culmination of a struggle to live normally, to achieve what he called “adult sanity," without... More »

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suicide • fiction • literature • author • novel • book • David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest

New Yorker to Run Excerpt
of Wallace's Last Book

In Pale King, deceased writer 'didn't want to do the old tricks'

Mar 1, 09 4:43 PM CST
(Newser) - David Foster Wallace fans can get a glimpse of the deceased writer’s unfinished novel tomorrow, when the New Yorker publishes an excerpt from The Pale King, the Washington Post reports. Wallace, who killed himself last fall, had been working on the book for years. The magazine will also run... More »

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suicide • New Yorker magazine • author • writer • novel • book • David Foster Wallace

UPDATED

Stephen King
to Pen Kindle Exclusive

Novel announced along with new version of e-reader today

Feb 9, 09 11:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Amazon.com may have written a new storyline into the publishing world: Along with today's announcement of a slimmer, faster (but still $359) Kindle reader, the online giant revealed that it has signed horror writer Stephen King to a deal for an exclusive e-book, reports the Wall Street Journal.... More »

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Stephen King • novel • book • Kindle • Amazon • book deal • e-readers

APPRECIATION

 Updike: An Author 
 'Hoping to Talk to America' 

Superlatives hardly lacking in wake of writer's death at 76

Jan 27, 09 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - John Updike, who died today at 76, was many things: Bob Ryan, in the Boston Globe, calls him the author of the “most spellbinding essay ever written about baseball.” For Carolyn Kellogg, in the Los Angeles Times, the first line of his story A&P displays a “... More »

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obituary • literature • novelist • author • novel • Ted Williams • John Updike • sports writer

 Fake Holocaust Memoir 
 May See Light as Novel 

Henry Rosenblatt working to find outlet for disgraced story

Jan 8, 09 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Herman Rosenblat’s Holocaust memoir was exposed as fake, but that doesn’t mean no one can profit off it: A small New York press is considering publishing the work as fiction, Gawker reports. Rosenblat, who even fooled Oprah a la James Frey, spun a touching but debunked story about... More »

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Holocaust • Oprah Winfrey • concentration camp • publisher • James Frey • novel • book • fake memoirs • Herman Rosenblat • Roma Rosenblat


 Web Novels  
 Let Readers 
 Drive the Plot 

Weekly installments end with a choice

Jan 5, 09 3:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Fantasy fans who’d like a role in the action can turn to literature’s latest incarnation: the online Web-novel, or wovel, NPR reports. Readers can click and read a chapter each week. Then, “at the end of every installment, there's a binary plot branch point with a vote... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • literature • reading • web • novel • book

Glossies

Japan Fetes Genji, World's
First Novel, at 1,000

Three very different English translations available to get you caught up

Dec 20, 08 6:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Japan is celebrating the 1,000th birthday of The Tale of Genji, a story penned by a woman in an imperial court that is widely regarded as the first modern novel, the Economist reports. The chronicle of an aristocratic aesthete’s sexual adventures is many things to many readers, including... More »

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Japan • sex • literature • love • anniversary • novel • book • Japanese literature • The Tale of Genji

(Newser) - Two years after announcing that he had given up writing, Gabriel García Márquez is at work on a new novel, says a close friend. Fellow writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza confirmed rumors that the Nobel Prize-winning 82-year-old is working on a love story, the Guardian reports. More »

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Colombia • literature • writing • novel • Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 Traces of the Real 
 Crusoe Unearthed 

Character was based on marooned Scotsman

Nov 1, 08 1:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - A dig has unearthed remnants of the real-life Robinson Crusoe’s stay on an island west of Chile, the BBC reports. Daniel Defoe’s character is said to have been based on a sailor who was rescued from the island in 1709. Traces of his four-year presence include post-holes from... More »

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archaeology • literature • island • novel

 Mystery Writer 
 Tony Hillerman 
 Dead at 83 

Penned police novels infused with Navajo culture

Oct 27, 08 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bestselling author Tony Hillerman died yesterday at 83 of pulmonary failure, the AP reports. He was known for his mystery novels, which featured two Navajo policemen with distinct views on their people, constantly balancing the Navajo world with the Anglo one. A onetime journalist, he found success with Skinwalkers in... More »

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obituary • literature • mystery • Native American • novel • book • Tony Hillerman

OPINION

 Chick Lit, Meet Manfiction 

Tough-guy novels offer escapism, entertainment

Oct 13, 08 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - With women taking the bestseller charts by storm, publishers may consider the male reading audience negligible, but that’s far from the case, writes Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly. In fact, men have their own form of chick lit—he calls it “manfiction”—which features the male equivalent... More »

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chick lit • novelist • Stephen King • novel

Unreleased Kafka Materials May See Light

Israeli women under pressure to share inherited documents

Aug 18, 08 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Franz Kafka, who died in 1924, is in the news because of the actions of his disobedient literary executor. Max Brod, who fled Prague in 1939, left a valuable collection of the Czech existentialist's papers with his secretary. She died last year at 101, and her daughters may be keeping... More »

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Israel • writer • novel • Franz Kafka • Hava Hoffe • Max Brod • Esther Hoffe

OPINION

 Aspiring Novelist? Read This

Fiction writer offers tips on juggling creativity, career

Aug 11, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - “I’ve always wanted to write” is something novelist Allegra Goodman hears a lot, so she lays out some advice in the Boston Globe for the doctors, venture capitalists, and lactation consultants with stories to tell:
  • “To begin, don’t write about yourself.” Writing is about
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literature • creative writing • novelist • writer • novel

US Publisher Yanks Novel
on Mohammed

Random House feared violence over work on prophet's child bride

Aug 8, 08 3:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Random House has pulled a book about the life of Mohammed due to be published this week, Reuters reports. The company feared that The Jewel of  Medina, a historical novel and love story about Mohammed and Aisha—a child bride who was engaged to the prophet when she was... More »

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Islam • Islamic extremists • Mohammed • author • novel • Random House

Midnight's Children Wins Best of Bookers

Rushdie's epic novel beats out 6 others by public vote

Jul 13, 08 5:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Salman Rushdie's classic Midnight's Children, which nabbed the Booker Prize 27 years ago, has now won the Best of the Bookers by public vote, the Guardian reports. About a boy born at the hour of India's independence, the novel won over six previous prize winners. The prize "looks at... More »

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India • fiction • literature • Salman Rushdie • Booker Prize • novel • Mahatma Gandhi

Bored at Work? Site Disguises Classic Lit

Readatwork.com lets you fool the boss

May 30, 08 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Business world got you down? Want to escape into a classic poem or short story? The New Zealand Book Council has made a website to help you: ReadatWork.com. The site brings up a fake Windows desktop with folders and PowerPoint files, the Wall Street Journal reports. Click on them,... More »

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corporate culture • literature • reading • poetry • office • website • novel

 New Bond Hits Bookstores 

Latest Bond thriller released on Ian Fleming's 100th birthday

May 27, 08 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new James Bond novel will hit bookstores tomorrow, marking what would have been the 100th birthday of creator Ian Fleming, AFP reports. Details of the new thriller, Devil May Care, have been kept secret, but author Sebastian Faulks—given a license to write Bond books by the Fleming estate—... More »

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publishing • James Bond • novelist • novel • Sebastian Faulks • Ian Fleming

 Salon's Favorite Thrillers 

5 gripping novels for those long summer days

May 26, 08 6:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Memorial Day means beaches, languid hours, and a page-turner within reach—so Salon has collared the season's best thrillers. This year's lineup includes: An art forger who gets in too deep; a Stalinist official who tries to do good; and a college prof who needs help solving an imaginary murder.... More »

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list • thriller • book reviews • novel • book • crime novels • crime novel • suspense

BOOK REVIEW

Shiny Morning No New Dawn for Frey

Critic lashes
fake memorist's
'execrable' new novel

May 13, 08 7:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The flap over James Frey's memoir-that-really-wasn't was bound to cast some clouds over his new novel Bright Shiny Morning. But lack of believability continues to be a key issue for the author with his "execrable" new book of two-dimensional characters in a city that bears little resemblance to LA,... More »

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Los Angeles • fiction • James Frey • memoir • book reviews • A Million Little Pieces • novel

book review

 Grisham Shows His Appeal 

His new novel is 'gripping,' and it comes with a message

Mar 30, 08 7:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Grisham has a familiar villain in his new novel—an evil corporation with a greedy owner—along with one of his famously intricate plots. But The Appeal stands apart from Grisham's previous works because it also has a message, in this case about the dirty politics of electing... More »

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judge • novel • John Grisham • The Appeal • crime novel • popular fiction • best seller

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