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(Newser) - Nora Roberts is the most popular romance writer in America, but it’s not easy being on the top. “People go, ‘Oh, you work six or eight hours a day, oh my God,’” she tells the New Yorker. “‘Well, yeah, how many hours do... More »

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publishing • writer • romance • novel • book • Nora Roberts • J.D. Robb • genre

SF Library Offers Amnesty to Tardy Book Borrowers

But each has to
cough up an excuse

Jun 14, 09 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A book amnesty program in San Francisco has inspired many guilty returns and a few entertaining excuses, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The city's public library offered tardy borrowers the chance to return items, fine-free, as long as they came with an excuse. Returning a record 29,228 items worth... More »

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San Francisco • amnesty • book • fines • library

Pungle, Nebby, Oh My! Folksism Dictionary Is Almost Done

Experts fear Twitter's effect on local lingo

Jun 14, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Do you know what a “mumble squibble” is? How about a “elbedritsch”? When the final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English comes out next year, a decades-in-the-making collection of odd vernacular from across the country will be complete at last, NPR reports. "It's very... More »

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language • book • linguists • dictionary • regional

 Summer Book Suggestions 

Forget the economy with these notable upcoming tomes

May 30, 09 10:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s almost summer, and that means it’s time to forget about the economy, grab a book, and head to the beach. The Wall Street Journal has some suggestions:
  • The Secret Speech, by Tom Rob Smith: Nothing says “escapism” like this novel—set in the
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book reviews • book • Donald E. Westlake • Robert Ludlum

Canadian Snags Man Booker International

77-year-old short-story writer Munro 'just won us over,' judge says

May 27, 09 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alice Munro, whose short stories the judges described as “practically perfect,” is the third winner of the $95,000 Man Booker International prize, the Guardian reports. The 77-year-old, author of 11 short story collections and one novel, is on a path to “international literary sainthood,” fellow... More »

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Booker Prize • prize • book • Alice Munro • Man Booker International



 Kate Moss 
 Takes Up 
 Writing 

Supermodel planning fictional account of young model's rise to the top

May 26, 09 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kate Moss is working on a new career for when her catwalk gigs disappear, the Sun reports. The supermodel has taken up writing, dug deep for inspiration, and is working on her first novel in tandem with rock-singer-turned-author Louise Wener. The subject? A young model's rise from obscurity to superstardom.... More »

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model • Kate Moss • book • supermodel

(Newser) - The rocky relationship between President Obama and Joe Biden comes under scrutiny in a new book by a Newsweek reporter, Fox News reports. In Renegade: the Making of a President, Richard Wolffe writes that Obama is “distracted by his vice president's indiscipline” and has had to personally rebuke... More »

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Joe Biden • Newsweek • publishing • discipline • book • Valerie Jarrett • Obama administration • President Obama • Richard Wolffe

(Newser) - A celibate monk in Poland has a surprise hit on his hands—a sex guide for married couples that's being labeled a Catholic Kama Sutra, the BBC reports. Poles quickly snapped up the first run of Father Ksawery Knotz' book, which argues that religious couples' sex life should be "... More »

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marriage • sex • priest • book • Catholic • intimacy

 Authors Want 
 Boom Lowered 
 on Book Pirates 

Book piracy balloons with growth of e-readers

May 12, 09 5:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A surge in book piracy has followed hot on the heels of the growth in ebooks, the New York Times reports. Publishers trying to stamp out unauthorized editions online say the ease with which books can now be copied online make their efforts little more than a game of "... More »

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publishing • file sharing • author • book • copyright infringement • ebooks • e-readers • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

Edwardses
Can't Get Out of Their Own Way

With book, betrayed Elizabeth trades
privacy for payback

May 6, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards knew her husband’s run for president could implode the moment his affair with Rielle Hunter came out, but she played the loving wife role anyway. “It was hard to walk away,” writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. “Just as it’s... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • Maureen Dowd • infidelity • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • betrayal

BOOK EXCERPT

 Elizabeth Edwards: 
 Road With John 
 Is Clear, But Long 

Memoir excerpt reveals reaction, recovery after John's affair

May 5, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Elizabeth Edwards memoir about coming to terms with her husband's disastrous affair, she tries to understand why he was "targeted” by videographer Rielle Hunter and why he fell for it. "I have come to understand his liaison with this woman, if I have, not as a substitute... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair

Anthropology Book By Obama's Mom to Hit Shelves

Study of Indonesian craftsmen will hit shelves 14 years after her death

May 5, 09 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's mother died before she finished revising her Ph.D dissertation for publication, but two of her fellow anthropologists have now completed the job, reports the Chicago Tribune. Stanley Ann Dunham's Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia—the study of blacksmiths and other rural craftsmen she completed... More »

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Barack Obama • Indonesia • Duke University • anthropology • book • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro

Interview

Calm Down,
Your Kids Are Perfectly Safe

Writer/mom says parents worry, hover way too much

May 4, 09 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - With a constant barrage of news stories and TV shows highlighting child abductions and murders, it may seem like a supremely dangerous time to be a kid. But don't believe the media, says Lenore Skenazy, the author of Free-Range Kids. In an interview with Salon, she explains why children today... More »

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parenting • children • abduction • author • child safety • book • cable news • Lenore Skenazy

BOOK REVIEW

Cosmo Editor Breathed Fun Into Feminism

Helen Gurley Brown made movement
sexy and smart

May 2, 09 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - For proof of the burgeoning reconciliation between second- and third-wave feminism, look no further than Michelle Obama, who thrives as a thinking woman's fashionista. For that, Obama and other feminists can thank Helen Gurley Brown, Naomi Wolf argues in a Washington Post review of Bad Girls Go Everywhere, Jennifer Scanlon’... More »

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feminism • book • Helen Gurley Brown • Betty Friedan

Spector's Kid
Seems as Crazy
as Spector

Memoir pitch reveals sordid details about dad's 'lady' friend

Apr 23, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Phil Spector’s son had as interesting an upbringing as one might imagine. In his memoir proposal, the Post reports, Louis Spector recalls a night involving “a bottle of wine, a Playboy magazine," and one of dad’s “lady” friends: “That night I lost my innocence,... More »

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Phil Spector • sex • memoir • underage sex • book • Louis Spector

 Secular Kid Goes 
 Undercover at 
 Falwell's 
 School 

Book about his experience is out now

Apr 22, 09 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kevin Roose spent spring break in Florida last year, but instead of boozing with the rest of the college students, he proselytized them. It was all part of the Brown University student’s undercover semester at Jerry Falwell-founded Liberty University, where he “had to follow their 46-page code of... More »

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religious right • Jerry Falwell • Liberty University • religion • book • Brown University • Kevin Roose

 Hard Times 
 Send Books 
 Straight to 
 Paperback 

Cheaper books lose 'second-best' reputation

Apr 21, 09 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - With customers watching their wallets, publishers are pinning their hopes this year on trade paperback books—not super-cheap mass-market paperbacks, but not hardcovers either, USA Today reports. And critics and authors who once disdained the format are warming to it. “I realized that I really want as many people... More »

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literature • publisher • book • publishing industry • paperback

(Newser) - The follow-up to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code should finally see the light of day later this year, the New York Observer reports. Publisher Doubleday says The Lost Symbol will hit shelves Sept.15, 4 years after originally hoped. The first print run will be 5 million copies, the... More »

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literature • book • Da Vinci Code • Doubleday • Dan Brown • publishing industry • Sonny Mehta • The Lost Symbol

 Hugo's Gift 
 Keeps on Selling 

Volume on colonial oppression becomes overnight best-seller

Apr 20, 09 9:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez has done for a book on the exploitation of Latin America what Bo did for Portuguese water dogs, the BBC reports. Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent has gone from 54,295th to second on Amazon’s sales... More »

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Latin America • colonialism • book • Hugo Chávez • best seller • President Obama • Eduardo Galeano • Open Veins of Latin America

(Newser) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a Spanish-language book today about the historical ravages visited on Latin America by colonial powers, Politico reports. The English title of the 1971 book by Eduardo Galeano is The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.... More »

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Latin America • colonialism • Trinidad • book • Hugo Chávez • President Obama • Tobago

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