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literature stories: 138 news summaries

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 Writer Marked by 
 Mob to Flee Italy 

Mob wants author dead by Christmas

Oct 16, 08 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A best-selling author who has become a target of Italian mobsters is fleeing Italy, reports the Guardian. Writer Roberto Saviano, 28, has spent the last two years as a virtual prisoner in army barracks, surrounded by bodyguards protecting him from a Neapolitan mob family. Saviano's book, Gomorra, now an... More »

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Naples • literature • assassination • Camorra • Roberto Saviano • Gomorra • Casal di Principe • Oscars

NEW RELEASE

 Author Unlocks Secret of Youth 


Oct 15, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a year tracking the American obsession with looking younger, veteran journalist Beth Teitell reached a sobering conclusion: "Age is the new fat." But the author of the newly released book Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth kept her head and her sense of humor. Teitell,... More »

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age • beauty • literature • aging • book • Beth Teitell

(Newser) - Indian author Aravind Adiga has won the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize for his debut novel the White Tiger, the Guardian reports. Adiga's novel explores the darker side of India's rise to prosperity through its narrator, the son of a rickshaw puller who escapes crushing poverty. "In many ways... More »

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literature • Booker Prize • book • Aravind Adiga

BOOK REVIEW

Death Takes a Holiday in Saramago's Latest

Author of Blindness deals with death in new novel

Oct 10, 08 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The premise of Jose Saramago’s Death With Interruptions seems a bit cutesy at first, with a Buffy-esque Grim Reaper deciding to take some time off her job, writes Shannon McBeen in Radar. But as Saramago explores the ramifications of universal immortality, he manages to transform “the admittedly weak... More »

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literature • Portugal • writer • book reviews • book • Jose Saramago

 French 
 Writer 
 Le Clézio 
 Wins Nobel 

Novelist, who lives part-time in US, wins $1.4M prize

Oct 9, 08 7:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - This year's Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, reports the AP, a novelist often called France's greatest living writer. The Swedish Academy praised him as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure, and sensual ecstasy." The 68-year-old, who lives part of the... More »

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France • literature • Nobel Prize • Nobel Prize for Literature • Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

movie review

 Blindness 'Fascinating'  
 But Difficult to Watch  

Not that director Meirelles' film is necessarily bad

Oct 3, 08 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Blindness is a hard film to watch, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad one. Some critics hated Fernando Meirelles’ parable about a plague of blindness; Roger Ebert called it “one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen.” But... More »

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literature • movie review

 Oprah's Book Pick: Sawtelle 

Publisher pressing 750,000 more copies

Sep 19, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Oprah Winfrey made The Story of Edgar Sawtelle her latest book club pick today, Publishers Weekly reports. The debut novel by David Wroblewski is about a mute boy who communicates best with his dogs. It's been a best-seller since its June release, and publisher Ecco is set to produce another... More »

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literature • Oprah Winfrey • publisher • Oprah's Book Club • David Wroblewski • The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

BOOK Review

 Roth's Latest 
 Doesn't Measure Up 

New Novel's protagonist too earnest for a fun read, says Kakutani

Sep 17, 08 6:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Unlike the emotionally twisted and tortured heroes of Philip Roth's finer works, the dead 19-year-old narrator of Indignation is an uncomplicated soul—and the novel suffers because of its milquetoast protagonist, writes Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times. "All of Marcus' unrelieved niceness makes for a somewhat pallid... More »

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New York Times • literature • reviews • book • Philip Roth • New York Times Book Review

Obituary

 'Fletch' Author Dead at 71 

Boston Globe scribe succumbs after long cancer battle

Sep 11, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Novelist and ex-Boston Globe reporter Gregory Mcdonald is dead at 71, Variety reports, succumbing after a long battle with cancer. Mcdonald is best known for his best-selling Fletch mystery novels, which comprise 15 of his 26 books. Four of his books have been turned into movies, including Fletch,... More »

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obituary • literature • book

Debuts Edge Favorites for Booker Shortlist

Rushdie, O'Neill passed over for top literary award

Sep 9, 08 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The jury for the Man Booker Prize announced its shortlist today—and left off the two books most hotly tipped to win the prestigious literary award, reports the Bookseller. Six novels were chosen, including two debuts. But many were surprised by the omission of Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence,... More »

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literature • Salman Rushdie • Booker Prize • prize

PRODUCT REVIEW

 New Reader May Top Kindle 

Plastic Logic's version is lighter, thinner, wider

Sep 8, 08 7:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, Kindle. A new e-book reader made by German/British firm Plastic Logic is on its way, and seems to fix many of the Amazon reader’s apparent flaws, Wired reports. PL’s as-yet-unnamed reader is 8.5 inches by 11 inches, but less than 3/10 of an inch thick... More »

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technology • literature • book • Kindle • Amazon • ebooks

opinion

 Put Catcher to Rest Already 

Salinger standby should make way for newer books

Aug 28, 08 7:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye may have once been edgy, coming-of-age literature, but does it deserve a place in today's curricula? It's time to retire Holden Caulfield, argues Anne Trubek in Good magazine. "Salinger’s novel lacks the currency or shock value it once had,... More »

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education • fiction • literature • The Catcher in the Rye • JD Salinger • opinion

A 'Prose Guy' Explores the Comics Boom

How graphic novels went from nothing to something

Aug 23, 08 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bob Thompson is a self-professed “prose guy,” but still can’t ignore the biggest trend in publishing: graphic novels. Thompson sets out for the Washington Post to discover how literature that uses word balloons can be book world's sole growing sector. He discovers that many “little see-saws”... More »

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literature • publishing • comics • graphic novel

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
... More »

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literature • creative writing • novelist • writer • novel

Appreciation

Remembering Russia's Prophet

Reflections on Solzhenitsyn's life reveal complex legacy

Aug 4, 08 1:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died yesterday at 89, left a complicated legacy and an unassailable record as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Three takes on the Nobel laureate:
  • The National Review, which on occasion published Solzhenitsyn’s work, says he may have been the man
... More »

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Russia • obituary • literature

OPINION

 Du Maurier:
 Neglected Genius? 

Author of Rebecca was more than pop-lit hack

Aug 2, 08 7:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Novelist Daphne du Maurier’s works have been read by millions, adapted into films, and kept in print for decades—yet she has been unable to shake her reputation as a pop-lit hack. Cynthia Crossen looks at her career in the Wall Street Journal and argues that the author of... More »

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literature • writer • hack • book • Daphne du Maurier

An Outsider Becomes Poet Laureate

Kay Ryan, master of introverted verse, takes the national stage

Jul 17, 08 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kay Ryan, a poet from Fairfax, Calif., with a reputation as an individualist, has been chosen as the nation's new poet laureate. The 62-year-old writer is known for her sly, concise verse that incorporates plays on words and uses intricate rhyme structures. Despite receiving many of the field's highest accolades,... More »

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literature • poet laureate • poetry • National Endowment for the Arts • Kay Ryan • Emily Dickinson

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

Bard-Working Librarians Help Nab Book Thief

Shakespeare folio stolen in England surfaces in Washington

Jul 11, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Quick-thinking librarians have helped recover a valuable book of Shakespeare's works stolen from a British university 10 years ago, the Washington Post reports. A man who arrived unannounced at Washington's Folger Shakespeare Library with a copy of the 1623 First Folio set off "alarm bells" with his tale of... More »

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theft • literature • William Shakespeare • First Folio • Folger Shakespeare Library • Durham University

OPINION

Anne of Green Gables, at 100, Goes Legit

Scribe cheers as Modern Library adds heroine to canon

Jul 10, 08 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Impetuous redheaded orphan Anne of Green Gables got the biggest gift of all on her 100th birthday: Official introduction into the literary canon. The Modern Library will issue a centennial edition of the first book in the series of eight. Some scholars bristle at the decision to place Anne alongside... More »

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literature • young adult • Canon • book • young adult novel • Anne of Green Gables • centennial

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