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  • November 2007

    • Literary Bull Blundered and Thrived

      Time  |  Nov 10, 07 7:33 PM CST

      Literary Bull Blundered and Thrived

      (Newser) - Egotist, chauvinist, brawler, Mailer battled "a culture subsiding into room temperature," Time says. His work vented "his own inner conditions" as he lurched from fame at age 25 to so-so books to his "brilliant" Armies of the Night in 1968. He made big gaffes—blaming patients for their cancer, directing bad films, helping parole a murderer—but "something important was lost" when he died today. “Norman come back," says Time . "Nothing is forgiven.” More »

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      obituary  • literature  • writer  • Norman Mailer  • 1960s

    • Walter Mosley's Top Literary Picks

      Newsweek  |  Nov 6, 07 4:10 PM CST

      Walter Mosley's Top Literary Picks

      (Newser) - Walter Mosley has won accolades from readers and critics alike for his Easy Rawlins detective series, and the novelist has a philosophical side, too. Newsweek presents his list of important works that "most greatly impacted the intelligence, potential and humanity of the people of the world." The Theory of Relativity , Albert Einstein On the Origin of Species , Charles Darwin Das Kapital , Karl Marx More »

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      list  • literature  • Marxism  • Charles Darwin  • Albert Einstein  • Karl Marx  • Sigmund Freud

  • October 2007

    • The Greatest Novel Never Read

      Slate  |  Oct 31, 07 8:10 PM CDT

      The Greatest Novel Never Read

      (Newser) - Just because they're accomplished writers doesn't mean they've made it through Ulysses . Slate asks contemporary authors to confess to the must-read classics they've never read: Amy Bloom, Moby Dick Stephen Carter , Harry Potter Jennifer Egan , Buddenbrooks More »

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      list  • book  • literature  • Harry Potter  • great books

    • New Lead on Poe's Death Excites Buffs

      New York Observer  |  Oct 21, 07 4:25 PM CDT

      New Lead on Poe's Death Excites Buffs

      (Newser) - Accounts of Edgar Allan Poe's exhumed brain may prove how he died, says Matthew Pearl, author of The Poe Shadow . He found reports of Poe's "dried and hardened" brain, "diminished in size," in old newspapers—and confirmed them as signs of a tumor. One Poe descendant says that Pearl has “stumbled onto something quite important," perhaps solving a great Poe puzzle, the New York Observer reports. More »

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      death  • literature  • mystery

    • Norman Mailer Back in Hospital

      New York Post  |  Oct 17, 07 12:43 PM CDT

      Norman Mailer Back in Hospital

      (Newser) - Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer was hospitalized yesterday in New York for respiratory ailments; his ex-wife said surgery had succeeded in removing scar tissue after a lung collapse—but she worried that he’s “not in very good shape.” It's the second recent scare for the 84-year-old literary lion, hospitalized for asthma over Labor Day, the New York Post reports. More »

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      literature  • asthma  • Norman Mailer  • Pulitzer Prize

    • Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize

      Guardian (UK)  |  Oct 11, 07 6:42 AM CDT

      Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize

      (Newser) - The Swedish Academy has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature to Doris Lessing, the Persian-born British author whose novels stand at the center of the feminist movement. The author of such classics as The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist did not figure among pundits' predictions for this year's winner. At 87, she becomes the oldest person ever to win the Nobel. More »

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      literature  • Nobel Prize

  • September 2007

    • A Wrinkle in Time Author Dead at 88

      New York Times  |  Sep 7, 07 3:52 PM CDT

      A Wrinkle in Time Author Dead at 88

      (Newser) - Madeleine L'Engle, author of more than 60 works of science fiction, religious meditation, poetry, drama, and young adult fiction, died yesterday in Connecticut, the New York Times reports. She was 88 years old. Her most famous book, A Wrinkle in Time, has sold more than 6 million copies since its 1962 publication and is now in its 67th printing. More »

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      obituary  • book  • literature  • Children's books  • science fiction

    • Booker Shortlist Mixes McEwan, New Names

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 6, 07 2:43 PM CDT

      Booker Shortlist Mixes McEwan, New Names

      (Newser) - A diverse group of novels has been selected for the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the English language. The six novels in the running cover wide terrain, from civil war in Papua New Guinea to environmental disaster in India to a disastrous wedding night in 1960s Britain, the Guardian reports. More »

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      literature  • Booker Prize  • Ian McEwan  • Lloyd Jones

    • Kerouac Was Klutzy Fatalist, Tragic Goofball

      Slate  |  Sep 5, 07 12:19 PM CDT

      Kerouac Was Klutzy Fatalist, Tragic Goofball

      (Newser) - For today’s 50th anniversary of On the Road ’s publication, Slate canvassed some of Jack Kerouac’s associates, creating a dramatic and nostalgic picture. The poet’s agent remembers he was thrown for a loop by the “demon” of “public reaction, celebrity,” and Carolyn Cassady recalls him as “a hunk, a football star, and a klutz.” More »

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      literature  • anniversary  • Jack Kerouac  • hippies  • On the Road  • beatniks

    • Readers Hurt by Paper Cuts

      Columbia Journalism Review  |  Sep 3, 07 4:40 PM CDT

      Readers Hurt by Paper Cuts

      (Newser) - Newspapers are under financial pressure, and one of the first things to go is often the book reviews. But author and editor Steve Wasserman thinks that's a serious problem. “Civilization is built on a foundation of books,” he declares in a polemic in CJR, and  stripping their pages of book reviews, he says, is indicative of the anti-intellectual hostility endemic in many newsrooms. More »

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      book  • newspaper  • literature  • reading  • book reviews  • print journalism

  • August 2007

    • Writer Grace Paley Dies at 84

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 23, 07 6:07 PM CDT

      Writer Grace Paley Dies at 84

      (Newser) - Acclaimed writer and activist Grace Paley, who in only three collections of short stories gave earthy voice to the interior life of the Bronx Everywoman, died yesterday at age 84 in her Vermont home, the Los Angeles Times reports. Paley—whose sensibility admirer Philip Roth called "splendidly comic and unladylike"—suffered from breast cancer. More »

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      Iraq war  • obituary  • breast cancer  • literature  • feminism  • writer  • activist

    • Liberals Read More than Conservatives

      Associated Press  |  Aug 21, 07 5:36 PM CDT

      Liberals Read More than Conservatives

      (Newser) - Liberals are more avid readers than conservatives, a new AP-Ipsos poll has discovered. Thirty-four percent of conservatives said they hadn’t read a book in a year, compared with 22% of liberals. A publishing exec and former congressman said that while liberals “can’t say anything in less than paragraphs,” conservatives gravitate to slick, pithy sound-bites. More »

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      book  • Karl Rove  • literature  • conservative  • liberals

    • Harry Potter and the Murdered Heiress?

      Times (UK)  |  Aug 19, 07 12:27 PM CDT

      Harry Potter and the Murdered Heiress?

      (Newser) - J.K. Rowling has been spotted writing something in an Edinburgh cafe like the one where she penned the first Harry Potter book, and fellow author Ian Rankin says she's moving in on his territory—crime fiction. Rankin admits he hasn't personally talked to Rowling about her next project; it was his wife who saw her "scribbling away." More »

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      book  • literature  • Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Scotland  • author  • fiction  • Edinburgh

    • Sacre Bleu! Harry Potter Translator Pinched

      Associated Press  |  Aug 8, 07 8:53 PM CDT

      Sacre Bleu! Harry Potter Translator Pinched

      (Newser) - A French boy suspected of posting a translation of the latest Harry Potter novel was arrested Monday, the AP reported today. The 16-year-old didn't appear to have financial gain in mind, a prosecutor said—with the French version not due until October, "he just wanted to get the book online." More »

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      France  • book  • literature  • teenagers  • Harry Potter  • intellectual property

    • Surrealist Simic Named Poet Laureate

      New York Times  |  Aug 2, 07 12:15 PM CDT

      Surrealist Simic Named Poet Laureate

      (Newser) - Charles Simic, a surrealist poet whose style gleams with dark imagery and ironic humor, will be named the United States' 15th poet laureate today. The 69-year-old, who replaces fellow New Hampshirite Donald Hall, has published more than 20 volumes of poetry as well as essay collections, translations and a memoir. More »

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      literature  • America  • humor  • Library of Congress  • poetry  • Yugoslavia  • Pulitzer Prize  • poet laureate  • creative writing  • irony

    • 'Mommy Lit' Taps Motherlode of Frustration

      Slate  |  Aug 2, 07 6:00 AM CDT

      'Mommy Lit' Taps Motherlode of Frustration

      (Newser) - Slate reviewer Katie Roiphe dresses down the entire emerging "Mommy Lit" genre in her caustic feminist review of the Brit bestseller "Slummy Mummy." Roiphe says she doesn't have a problem with light summer page-turners, but she takes issue with the novel's celebration of frumpy female mediocrity.  More »

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      book  • women  • literature  • feminism  • mothers

  • July 2007

    • What CEOs Read Before They Lead

      New York Times  |  Jul 22, 07 1:42 PM CDT

      What CEOs Read Before They Lead

      (Newser) - Scanning the personal libraries of CEOs, tech gurus and venture geniuses reveals not only what they read but how they think, the Times reports. The well-heeled have taken to housing their exorbitant collections in luxurious, custom-built, private spaces. And if you read between the lines, the literature tends to reflect the collector. More »

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      business  • book  • literature  • Steve Jobs  • reading  • CEO  • libraries  • Galileo  • Queen Elizabeth I  • Michael Milken

    • 10 Books to Blow Your Mind

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 17, 07 1:57 PM CDT

      10 Books to Blow Your Mind

      (Newser) - Sebastian Beaumont, the author of Thirteen, offers his list of books that "blur the boundaries of consensus 'reality' and psychological reality." Journey to the East , Hermann Hesse Le Grand Meaulnes , Henri Alain-Fournier Fight Club , Chuck Palahnuik Vurt , Jeff Noon Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse More »

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      list  • book  • literature  • psychology  • mind

  • June 2007

    • Harry Potter Work$ His Magic

      Associated Press  |  Jun 29, 07 4:34 AM CDT

      Harry Potter Work$ His Magic

      (Newser) - Advance orders for the final book in the Harry Potter series are up 17% over the last installment, British publisher Bloomsbury reports. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will bring down the curtain on one of the biggest money makers in publishing history  on July 21. The latest Potter movie, which has already premiered in Tokyo, is also casting a spell on fans. More »

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      movie  • book  • literature  • Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • publishing  • Bloomsbury

    • FBI Recovers 'Good Earth' Manuscript

      Associated Press  |  Jun 27, 07 7:03 PM CDT

      FBI Recovers 'Good Earth' Manuscript

      (Newser) - The manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" has turned up at a Philadelphia auction house, having gone missing in 1966. The FBI was called in after the daughter of one of the author's secretaries tried to put it for sale, the AP reports. Buck died in1973, believing the 400-page manuscript of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel had been stolen. More »

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      book  • literature  • auction

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