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  • October 2008

    • Mohammad Child Bride Book Hits US Early

      Reuters  |  Oct 7, 08 2:08 PM CDT

      Mohammad Child Bride Book Hits US Early

      (Newser) - A controversial novel tracing the life of the Prophet Mohammed's child bride has been rushed out early by its US publisher, Reuters reports. The Jewel of Medina 's British release was suspended after its London publisher's headquarters was firebombed. Beaufort Books—which took the project after Random House dropped it amid fears of attacks—said it has not received threats, but hoped attention will shift to the book's merits. More »

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      Islam  • author  • extremists  • Mohammed  • Beaufort Books  • Prophet Mohammed

    • Rodanthe Author Still Loves Himself

      Entertainment Weekly  |  Oct 3, 08 7:11 PM CDT

      Rodanthe Author Still Loves Himself

      (Newser) - Nicholas Sparks may run low on creative gas, but that only lasts for a minute or two. The multimillionaire author of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe works out for nearly 3 hours a day before writing 2,000 words and coaching track at his son's school. ''I'm efficient," he smiles. And he's confident enough to compare himself to Shakespeare—which may be why he bristles at the tag of "romance writer." More »

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      author  • writer  • novelist  • Nicholas Sparks

  • September 2008

    • Depression Killed David Foster Wallace

      Salon  |  Sep 27, 08 6:04 PM CDT

      Depression Killed David Foster Wallace

      (Newser) - After a torrent of tributes to David Foster Wallace since his suicide 2 weeks ago, Salon talks with close friends and family members about the decades-long battle with depression that led the beloved and astonishingly talented writer to take his life. For years, Wallace functioned with the help of antidepressants, but he'd developed problems with the drugs, and stopped taking them. More »

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      suicide  • depression  • antidepressant  • author  • David Foster Wallace  • MacArthur Grant

    • Spy Author Le Carré Was Tempted to Join Soviets

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Sep 15, 08 7:35 AM CDT

      Spy Author Le Carré Was Tempted to Join Soviets

      (Newser) - British spy novelist John le Carré once considered defecting to the Soviet Union out of curiosity about the country, he told an interviewer while promoting his new book. “When you spy intensively and you get closer and closer to the border it seems such a small step to jump and find out the rest,” he said. The author was a spy himself before a double-agent exposed him, the Daily Telegraph notes. More »

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      Soviet Union  • author  • spy

  • August 2008

    • Genre-Setting Travel Author Dies at 47

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 26, 08 1:47 PM CDT

      Genre-Setting Travel Author Dies at 47

      (Newser) - Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die , died at age 47 after falling and hitting his head at his California home last week, the Los Angeles Times reports. Published in 1999, the free-spirited travel guide, among the first to offer a sight-seeing agenda based on adventure and mortality, spawned dozens of imitators in other genres. More »

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      obituary  • author  • books  • adventure travel

    • Obama Launches Corsi Counterstrike

      Talking Points Memo  |  Aug 15, 08 10:10 AM CDT

      Obama Launches Corsi Counterstrike

      (Newser) - Barack Obama is launching an aggressive counterattack on Obama Nation , the Jerome Corsi book aimed to derail his reputation, Talking Points Memo reports. In sharp contrast to John Kerry's "don't dignify that with a response" approach to Corsi's book demolishing the decorated veteran's Swift Boat record, the Obama campaign is swiftly responding to claims in the book, blasting Corsi's credibility, and pushing media outlets to give his side equal time. More »

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      Barack Obama  • book  • author  • Swift Boating  • Jerome Corsi

    • Swift Boat Author Aims to Sink Obama

      New York Times  |  Aug 13, 08 5:27 AM CDT

      Swift Boat Author Aims to Sink Obama

      (Newser) - The author who helped torpedo John Kerry's White House bid is aiming to make it two for two, the New York Times reports. Jerome Corsi's Unfit for Command  launched the Swift Boat controversy. His new book, Obama Nation , portrays Barack Obama as a radical liberal with strong ties to Islam, who may still be taking drugs. More »

    • How 5,000 Years of Marriage Led Us to 'I Do'

      Salon  |  Aug 10, 08 3:38 PM CDT

      How 5,000 Years of Marriage Led Us to 'I Do'

      (Newser) - Author Susan Squire takes a long view of marriage—about 5,000 years, in fact. Her new book, I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage , traces matrimony’s bizarre historical journey, from pure mating ritual to Christian "lust-containment facility" to modern romance. In an interview with Salon, she says that love had nothing to do with marriage until Martin Luther said it did. More »

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      book  • marriage  • history  • love  • author

    • US Publisher Yanks Novel on Mohammed

      Reuters  |  Aug 8, 08 3:25 AM CDT

      US Publisher Yanks Novel on Mohammed

      (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 6—might rile Islamic radicals and endanger the lives of employees. More »

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

  • June 2008

    • Graphic Bod Novel Jars Germany

      New York Times  |  Jun 6, 08 4:16 AM CDT

      Graphic Bod Novel Jars Germany

      (Newser) - A highly explicit novel that explores every body crevice of its teenage female narrator has scandalized Germany—and topped bestseller lists, the New York Times reports. The controversial novel, which mixes the anatomical and scatological with the erotic, is a feminist statement challenging a world that expects women to be overly shaved and sanitized, said author Charlotte Roche. More »

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      Germany  • feminism  • author  • writer  • sexuality  • hygiene  • German

    • Footprints Poem Leads to Authorship Suit

      Washington Post  |  Jun 1, 08 3:51 PM CDT

      Footprints Poem Leads to Authorship Suit

      (Newser) - A religious poem that adorns coffee mugs and T-shirts worldwide may now inspire a court battle, the Washington Post reports. A Long Island man has filed suit claiming that his mother wrote the inspirational work, "Footprints in the Sand." At least a dozen others have claimed authorship of the poem, which has raked in millions of dollars in merchandising. More »

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      lawsuit  • religion  • copyright  • copyright infringement  • author

  • April 2008

    • Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 27, 08 5:52 AM CDT

      Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

      (Newser) - One of Norman Mailer’s mistresses suspected the writer of having a gay affair—or perhaps several, reports the Times of London. Mailer also asked lover Carole Mallory to have three-way sex with a gay man, according to her notes in archives recently purchased by Harvard University. One of the men Mallory suspected of being romantically linked to Mailer, close friend Rick Stratton, said there was “no truth to” speculation that the writer had gay affairs. More »

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      book  • affair  • author  • homosexual  • Norman Mailer  • Carole Mallory

    • Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

      New York Times  |  Apr 11, 08 1:37 PM CDT

      Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

      (Newser) - One of aviation’s great mysteries has been solved: What happened to Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, the French pilot and author of The Little Prince, who disappeared in 1944. A bracelet turned up in the Mediterranean a decade ago, then a sunken aircraft. An archeologist diver, not satisfied to stop there, contacted hundreds of veterans before hearing, “You can stop searching. I shot down Saint-Exupéry.” More »

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      France  • World War II  • aviation  • author  • mystery  • unsolved mystery  • Luftwaffe