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literary criticism stories: 4 news summaries

Post Folds Book Review Section to Cut Costs

Literature reviews will be shuffled into other sections of paper

Jan 28, 09 6:01 PM CST
(Newser) - The Washington Post will print Book World—its stand-alone Sunday section—for the last time Feb. 15 and shuffle its reviews into other newspaper sections to cut costs, the New York Times reports. Book World will remain intact online, run by a previously downsized staff. The closure comes amid... More »

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Washington Post • American media • book reviews • advertising sales • New York Times Book Review • literary criticism • newspaper industry • recession depression • Book World

 This Year's Bad-Sex Winners 

Paulo Coehlo, John Updike make shortlist for Bad Sex in Fiction award

Nov 22, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Ten authors have joined the distinguished ranks of such literary luminaries as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe—as nominees for the annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award. The dubious honor singles out “otherwise sound literary” fiction that includes “unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a... More »

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sex • list • Norman Mailer • John Updike • Alastair Campbell • Tom Wolfe • literary criticism • Paulo Coelho

 Critic John Leonard Dead at 69 

Lung cancer claims Vonnegut's 'smartest man who ever lived'

Nov 6, 08 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Critic and author John Leonard died last night after a long battle with cancer. Leonard, whom Kurt Vonnegut once called "the smartest man who ever lived," was 69. A brilliant but not flashy stylist, an unapologetic liberal, and a mentor to countless younger writers, Leonard worked at various... More »

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television • CBS • Kurt Vonnegut • critic • book • literary criticism • New York magazine • John Leonard

 Porn Claim Riles Kafka Scholars  

Experts have uneasy dreams about author's proclivities

Aug 15, 08 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Literary circles are in an uproar over a new biography of Franz Kafka that says the existentialist author had a penchant for porn, the Guardian reports. Kafka expert James Hawes, who says he unearthed some of the not-exactly-mainstream magazines the author enjoyed, makes the claim in a new book and... More »

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pornography • biography • British Library • anti-Semitism • Franz Kafka • literary criticism • Heinrich Heine • Bodleian • Rainer Stach • Klaus Wagenbach

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