Books & Authors
Books of The Times: ‘You Know That Chicken Is Chicken, Right?’
Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.
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Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll
In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.
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Colum McCann Wins National Book Award
Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.
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Newly Released Books
Fiction by Penelope Lively, Ha Jin, Lauren Grodstein, Charles Cumming, Paul Auster and Jim Kokoris.
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Books of The Times: The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage
This incendiary new book angrily and persuasively connects Theodore Roosevelt’s noxious racial views to his foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.
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Library Leader in Era of Change to Step Down
Paul LeClerc announced that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in 2011.
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National Book Awards: Conflict of Interest Question Arises in Young Readers' Category
A blogger and former book review editor has questioned whether one of the judges on the panel that will select the award for Young People's Literature has a conflict of interest with one of the candidates for the award.
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F.B.I. Kept File on Studs Terkel
While Studs Terkel was following around musicians, baseball players and other hardworking Americans in the course of his journalistic duties, it turns out that Mr. Terkel was being followed himself.
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Cellphone Apps Challenge the Rise of E-Readers
Some readers prefer the convenience of small-screen smartphones to e-readers.
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The Pour: An Invitation to Read, Sniff and Taste
Six new books about wine can help the reader to better understand what’s in the glass.
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Books of The Times: Gratitude’s Grace Can Be Itself a Gift
A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives.
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The Authors' Hearts Beat Faster. Publishing Was So Close Now. . .
Harlequin Enterprises, the queen of the romance world, has signed a partnership agreement with Author Solutions, a company that helps aspiring scribes self-publish their books.
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More English Translations on the Way for Nobel Winner's Novels
Metropolitan Books has acquired the North American rights to publish two novels by Herta Muller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize last month.
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Books of The Times: Desperately Seeking Dad: A Murder Mystery
Though Ed Lazar’s younger son, Zachary, did not know his father well, he has written a pungent-sounding but maddeningly vague book about Ed’s murder.
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Sullenberger Takes Issue With New Book
A pilot whom many consider a hero takes issue with a new account of the flight that landed in the Hudson.
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Arts, Briefly: Winnie-the-Pooh Returns to Court
The producer who acquired licensing rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works and characters from A. A. Milne has been suing Disney for rights infringement since 1991, and isn’t stopping now, according to BBC News.
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In Fleury’s Memoir, Rangers Years Are a ‘Nightmare’
With its revelations of sexual abuse and details of substance abuse, Theo Fleury’s memoir has rocked the hockey world as surely as Andre Agassi’s recent memoir rocked tennis.
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Books of The Times: Memoir Is Palin’s Payback to McCain Campaign
Sarah Palin’s new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska.
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Earl Coleman, Publisher and Poet, Dies at 93
Mr. Coleman started a custom translation service and built it into the Plenum Publishing Corporation, one of the world’s largest translators and publishers of scientific and technical material.
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The Morning After
Mary Karr’s third memoir layers the pangs of recovery with those of motherhood, divorce and making art.
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