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Don DeLillo's latest offering, Point Omega, is perhaps the best thing he's written since White Noise, and certainly one of the most thought provoking works that you are likely to read this year. DeLillo has always been a master of weaving seemingly disparate subjects into the same tapestry, but in this weird and haunting tale he has exceeded his own high standard, and achieved a personal best. Read more.

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Point Omega by Don DeLillo originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 09:39:36.

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The University of Texas' Harry Ransom Centre has acquired David Foster Wallace's writing archive and will make this material available for public viewing autumn of this year.

Included in the archive are draft manuscripts, college and graduate school writings, hand-edited stories and essays, and, according to this Guardian article, an early childhood poem:

"This last, 'Viking Poem', was composed at around the age of six, and shows Wallace experimenting with his signature as well as revealing early signs of the acute comic sensibility that would mark his later work. ('If you were to see a viking today" the poem advises, "It's best you should go some other way / because they'd kill you very well / and all your gold they'd certainly sell / For all these reasons stay away'.)"

Read more from The Guardian.

David Foster Wallace Biography

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The David Foster Wallace Archive Opens This Fall originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 08:29:45.

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Sarah Blake's The Postmistress is composed of intertwined stories of three woman during World War II - a Cape Cod postmistress, a radio gal in London, and a young bride who awaits her husband's return from the war. Read review.

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The Postmistress by Sarah Blake originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 09:38:50.

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Boulder Bookstore

You've been keeping it to yourself, haven't you? This haven of yours, this maze of wooden shelves and tables piled high with books. It's musty with paper, or perhaps it smells wonderfully of cappucino. Large, highbacked chairs or wooden stools crammed in narrow aisles. Whatever it is, you love going there and this bookseller loves having you as a patron.

Share the love! Tell us about the bookstore in your town. A few readers already have, but we want more - we want yours! Visit My Favorite Indie Bookstore and invite us in.

Tell Us About Your Local Bookstore originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 14:04:57.

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Jasper Fforde may just be my new ffavorite author. He makes my job easy and enjoyable and perhaps even entirely unnecessary. You don't actually have to continue reading this review, really. If you are at all disposed to dystopian and decidedly satirical coming-of-age steampunk, with a healthy dose of Monty Pythonesque laughs, you may skip all this and run out to get a copy of Shades of Grey immediately.

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Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 09:33:00.

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Nearly 350 novels and short story collections were considered in selecting the five finalists for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the $15k literary prize established by William Faulkner. The five works in the short list were:

  • A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
  • Homicide Survivors Picnic by Lorraine López
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
  • War Dances (short stories) by Sherman Alexie

The winner will be announced on March 23. Read more from the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

Previous PEN/Faulkner Award winners.

PEN/Faulkner Finalists Announced originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 12:14:45.

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The most compelling reason to read a novel is that it has a story that clutches the reader. The story, whether it is a murder mystery or love story, must have dramatic tension. The characters must move the reader with love or loathing; there is no in between. The tempo at which the story unfolds must fit. Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian) has met each of these criteria in her newest novel, The Swan Thieves.

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The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 09:22:29.

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Zahra's Paradise

Today, First Second Books launches Zahra's Paradise, a serialized web comic about the search for Mehdi, a young man who has disappeared during Iran's 2009 election protests. The comic's creators, an Iranian-American human rights activist and a fine artist, go by the names Amir and Khalil, and they use Mehdi's story to explore social, political and human rights issues in Iran.

Zahra's Paradise appears in multiple languages and will be updated each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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Web Comic Depicts Iranian Election Protests originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 11:42:50.

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NPR's Three Minute Fiction - a contest in which NPR listeners can submit a story that can be read in three minutes (think 600 words) or less - is happening right now.

In this third incarnation of Three Minute Fiction, entrants are asked to submit a story inspired by this photograph on or before February 28.

Stories will be judged by NPR book critic, Alan Cheuse with help from authors at the Iowa Writers workshop. The winning story will be read on-air during All Things Considered weekend, and the story's author will be interviewed by host Guy Raz.

The photo, form, rules, and everything else you need is at www.npr.org/threeminutefiction. Get writing!

NPR's Three Minute Fiction Contest originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 08:42:51.

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In Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert - author of the self-described "megajumbo international best seller" Eat, Pray, Love (2006) - spends a year exploring the Western marriage tradition by delving into topics such as history, feminism, autonomy, and expectation. Read more.

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Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert originally appeared on About.com Contemporary Literature on Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 09:24:42.

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LINCOLN, Neb., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Nebraska Book Company, Inc. announced today that it has successfully completed its offer to exchange up to $200.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 10% Senior Secured Notes Due 2011 (the "New Notes"), which have been registered under the Securities Act
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CAIR-PA to launch nationwide campaign against books that promote 'hostility toward Islam and suspicion of Muslims' PHILADELPHIA, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, March 17, the Pennsylvania chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-PA) will hold a news conference in
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SAN DIEGO, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthy Chats LLC announces the release of their Spanish language parenting guide, "The Birds and the Bees with Ease!  Como, Cuando y Que Decir a Su Hijo de 5 a 9 anos de Edad Acerca del Sexo." The easy-to-follow book enables parents to discuss these sensiti
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NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Announcing the new Spanish-language translation of What to Expect® When You're Expecting: 4th Edition, America's pregnancy bible, with over 16 million copies in print. Originally published as Qué Se Puede Esperar Cuando Se Está Esperando, this new ed
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BUFFALO, N.Y., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services (BVCPS) has released an industry-first series of regulatory manuals, entitled the US Compliance Insider 2010.  The books provide comprehensive coverage of US state and federal requirements in multiple volumes, wit
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FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Everything Channel, a UBM company, today announced the release of IPED's Health of the Channel eBook.  The first in an installment of five, the eBook provides technology vendors with a detailed analysis of the financial conditions and concerns of the
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NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- This spring, New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber will embark on another whirlwind tour across the U.S. to meet readers and celebrate the publication of HANNAH'S LIST, her new novel.  On April 27 the popular author will start in Minneapolis with t
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HARTFORD, Conn., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In recent years, some adults have readily adopted a holistic diet to live a healthier lifestyle and now we've discovered it's beneficial for pets too. According to Pet Product News, holistic pet food sales reached $15 billion in 2008, and when prepared prope
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NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrity chef and author Rocco DiSpirito's cookbook Now Eat This! 150 of America's Favorite Comfort Foods All Under 350 Calories, released March 2, 2010, has found instant success locking the #1 position on the coveted New York Times Bestseller list for the week o
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HOMBERG, Germany, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Adam 3XL (published by Trafford) by Dr. Martin Noelke is a novel about basketball, love, friendship ... and some nutritional guidelines for weight reduction in the long run. It's the story of a one-time high school basketball all-star who stops exercising a
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VAILS GATE, N.Y., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- "Not Without My Son: As Told To Lee Gittler Steup" (published by AuthorHouse) is the chronicle of the life of Dr. Mariam Naseem, an Iranian-born Jewish immigrant to America who confronted oppression on the basis of her gender, culture, religion and, later,
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Author Rick Fernandez never realized how much he had to live for until he nearly had his life ripped away from him. Now, in his new collection of memoirs, "An Uncharted Desert Isle" (published by AuthorHouse), he shares the story of the tragic car accident
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MINNEAPOLIS, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- General Mills (NYSE: GIS) – For anyone who's ever wanted to be a children's book author, here's a fairy tale come true!   After winning the second Cheerios® New Author Contest, Lori Degman, a 52-year-old teacher for deaf and hard-of-hearing stude
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NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- This August, the Duchess of York and Sterling Children's Books will publish Helping Hand Books, a series designed to help children understand personal and social issues that affect them growing up, including starting school, coping with bullying and learning about
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today that Prof. Maurice Courbage (Universite Denis Diderot - Paris 7) and Prof. Paolo Grigolini (University
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CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Teens love to hang out.  But where and when they hang out is often the subject of controversy.  Watch This Space: Designing, Defending and Sharing Public Spaces (Kids Can Press) is a groundbreaking book that uses a fun, visually exciting approach t
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All Kinds of Minds' groundbreaking new book merges the science of learning with the art of teaching DURHAM, N.C., March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- All Kinds of Minds, a national nonprofit dedicated to translating the latest research on how students learn into training and tools that equip educato
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FORT WORTH, Texas, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- You've waited patiently for this moment, so let the news be told.  We have a winner. Actually, it's five winners. For the eighth year, American Way, the inflight magazine of American Airlines, conducted its annual Road Warrior Contest. This
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ATLANTA, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- CorMatrix Cardiovascular, Inc., a medical device company dedicated to developing and delivering unique extracellular matrix (ECM) biomaterial devices that harness the body's innate ability to repair damaged cardiovascular tissue, announced today that investigators f
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PARIS, March 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Publicis Groupe Supervisory Board, chaired by Madam Elisabeth Badinter, met today and decided the bonuses of the members of the Management Board (Directoire) (Maurice Lévy - Chairman & CEO, David Kenny, Jack Klues, Jean-Yves Naou
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ANTONY, France, March 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Sales up 13%, Operating Profit up 15%, Net Profit up 17% - Record Free Cash Flow of EUR 17.5 Million (x 3.7) - Net Cash Position Turned Positive - Proposed Dividend of 0.55 EUR (up 22%) The Board of Directors' mee
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NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- ELLE, the world's largest fashion magazine, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with C, California's premier lifestyle publication. The partnership builds on ELLE and C's advertising leadership to create unique national and lo
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NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Triad Securities is pleased to announce a new periodical report: "The IPO Review." The publication encapsulates the global and U.S. IPO market with a focus on past, current, and future deals in the equity marketplace. The IPO Review highlights trends in sectors and
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MADISON, N.J., March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, announced that it is scheduled to speak at the Barclays Capital Global Healthcare Conference in Miami.  The presentation is
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CAIR-PA to launch nationwide campaign against books that promote 'hostility toward Islam and suspicion of Muslims' PHILADELPHIA, March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, March 17, the Pennsylvania chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-PA) will hold a news conference in
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BOULDER, Colo., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- E Source recently launched Facility Energy Management Online, a new low-cost web-based research and advisory service. This new service is designed for energy managers and facility managers who are looking for energy management best practices and guidance
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LOS ANGELES, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- A "Truth in Media" audience poll of African-American internet users revealed that an overwhelming 80% believe the coverage of African-Americans in the news is "negative" and nearly 90% do not think mainstream news is "fair and balanced" in its coverage of Africa
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NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: http://www.reportlinker.com/p0182945/44-methylenediphenol-CAS-620-92-8-Market-Research-Report-2010.html The study '4,4'-methylenediphenol (CAS 620-92-8) Market Research Rep
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Colin Beavan is known as the guy who went a year without toilet paper. It was part of his and his family's step-by-step yearlong experiment living a low-impact life off the grid in Manhattan. His book, "No Impact Man," eponymous blog (...

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The Music Room A Memoir By William Fiennes (W.W. Norton; 216 pages; $24.95) The extraordinary backdrop of author William Fiennes' childhood was staged nearly 700 years before his birth, in 14th century England, when a moated castle began to be passed down...

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Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times. In the 1970s, Carroll was a fixture of the burgeoning...

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In 15 years as a mail carrier, Napa Valley horror writer Gene O'Neill had some frightening visions along his route. "Every mailman in the Bay Area squints his eyes when it's foggy and he hears the tinkling of a metallic name tag hitting the metallic spikes of...

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News and notes from the world of books: One City One Book, the citywide reading initiative designed to encourage San Franciscans to read and discuss the same book, has a series of events planned over the next couple of months to celebrate this year's book, "...

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Crazy Like a Fox One Principal's Triumph in the Inner City By Ben Chavis, with Carey Blakely (New American Library; 287 pages; $24.95) Under his leadership as a charismatic and unconventional principal, Ben Chavis turned a failing charter school in Oakland...

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The Water Giver The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance By Joan Ryan (Simon and Schuster; 260 pages; $24) For the longest time, Joan Ryan focused on the negative aspects of parenting. She bemoaned the aggravations and disappointments. Her son,...

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Recommendations of recent books from the staffs of a rotating list of Bay Area independent bookstores. This week's list is from Spectator Books, 4163 Piedmont Ave., Oakland. (510) 653-7300. www.spectatorbooks.com. Fiction The Skating Rink, by Roberto Bolaño:...

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The National Parks America's Best Idea An Illustrated History By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns (Alfred A. Knopf; 404 pages; $50) "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread," wrote John Muir, "places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give...

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NurtureShock New Thinking About Children By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman (Twelve; 336 pages; $24.99) Parents often rely on two things when they go about the complex business of raising children: instinct and conventional wisdom. When instinct and the...

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The Anthologist By Nicholson Baker (Simon and Schuster; 243 pages; $25) Paul Chowder can't bring himself to write the long-overdue preface to his anthology of rhyming verse, nor can he bring himself to write more poems, though he's already mildly famous, as...

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Mr. Harmon had been driving me mad for six months, three weeks, and two days. "Moonlight in Odessa," a novel by Janet Skeslien CharlesSomewhere up there is a devil with a gun at the ready and he will shoot anyone who comes near the fence. "The Apple," a novel...

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The Adderall Diaries A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder By Stephen Elliott (Graywolf Press; 208 pages; $23) On July 7, 2008, at 5:03 p.m., I was driving too fast toward the Skyline Gate of Redwood Regional Park in Oakland - late, as usual, for my weekly...

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A Gate at the Stairs By Lorrie Moore (Alfred A. Knopf; 322 pages; $25.95) Lorrie Moore's fans have been waiting with high expectations for "A Gate at the Stairs," her first published book in more than a decade. Revered as a "writer's writer," Moore balances...

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Editor's note: Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author who lives in Marin County. She worked as a sports and news columnist at the San Francisco Examiner, then The Chronicle, from 1985 to 2007. Ryan's new book, "The Water Giver" (Simon & Schuster)...

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British writer Keith Waterhouse, a raconteur and wit whose works include the enduringly popular novel "Billy Liar," has died at the age of 80. Waterhouse's family said he died peacefully in his sleep early Friday at his London home. The cause of death was not...

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Who said the book business is in bad shape? Judging from the excellent lineup of many titles coming out this fall - it may well be the most impressive list in years - one wouldn't know the industry is in the doldrums. (Then again, what business isn't in the...

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Notable books, due out in September, by Bay Area authors: Nonfiction The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder , by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf Press; $23) A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed...

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Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling books including "Another City, Not My Own," about O.J. Simpson's murder trial, died Wednesday in his home at age 83. Dunne's...

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Toward the end of writer Jack Kerouac's life, the so-called King of the Beats was having trouble paying his mortgage. Upon his death in 1969, his estate was valued at $91- compared with around $20 million today. If the soft-spoken, hard-drinking author were...

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Lisa Himmel sits on the sofa in her parents' Palo Alto home and takes a bite of an English muffin sandwich. "Hard to talk when you're eating peanut butter," she says. Her mother laughs. The moment is so normal, which in itself is notable. Not long ago, Lisa...

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At age 26, Mara Altman had never had an orgasm. In most cases, this observation might have been viewed as a private concern to be worked out with discretion. Or with friends in Marin. But as a graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and a...

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The purported autobiography of a movie-star chimpanzee is among the contenders for Britain's most prestigious literary award. "Me Cheeta" is one of 13 novels on the Booker Prize long list. Originally published anonymously, James Lever's book claims to tell...

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After walking home, "Wanderlust" author Rebecca Solnit has 60 more steps to climb to her attic apartment in the Panhandle. Here Solnit, 48, wrote her 12th book, "A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster," to be released...

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A nub of 47 square miles, much of it punctuated by vertigo-inducing hills, most of it surrounded by ocean water - half of it the open, not-so-tranquil Pacific, the other half the calm, protected currents of a gray-blue bay. Just as San Francisco has been...

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To Paul Krassner, obscenity is finally returning to its roots. A prominent cultural provocateur since the '60s, the 77-year-old comedian, political humorist, journalist, writer (etc.), says true obscenity is now evolving into its proper definition: Something...

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If a good bookstore is a sign of a good neighborhood, then communities across the Bay Area can consider themselves blessed. Doomsday predictions about the death of bookstores abound, but there are scores of independent stores in the area - roughly 150 within...

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Publishing News: Titles, jobs change in newsroom restructuring -- Kirstin Wilder has been promoted to managing editor of Variety , responsible for overseeing production, finances and personnel for the editorial department.
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Publishing News: Late Variety columnist honored by Asbestos Disease Awareness Org -- Variety columnist Army Archerd will be honored posthumously by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) next month in Chicago.
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Publishing News: Penned adapation of 'Client,' 'Burning Bridges' -- Novelist and TV writer and producer Judith Paige Mitchell died of cancer on Feb. 10 in Los Angeles. She was 77.
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Publishing News: Lee, DiDio named co-publishers; Johns new CCO -- Warner Bros. has taken another big step in proving to fanboys just how serious it is about bringing more of DC's superheroes to the bigscreen.
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Publishing News: Screenwriter and partner branch into sci-fi books -- Filmmaker David S. Goyer is expanding his dominion to the bookstore.
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Publishing News: 'Catcher in the Rye' author was 91 -- J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.
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Publishing News: Book by leftist political activist was a best-seller -- Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts and a favorite of such celebrities as Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87.
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Publishing News: Veteran was former FCC commissioner, Variety reporter -- James H. Quello, a former Detroit broadcaster who served as a member of the Federal Communications Commission for 24 years, including as acting chairman of the agency in 1993, died Jan. 25 at his Alexandria, Va., home. He was 95.
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Publishing News: Partial paywall will be built this year for 2011 launch -- The New York Times says it will charge readers for full access to its Web site starting in 2011, a risky move aimed at drawing more revenue online without driving away advertisers that want the biggest possible audience.
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Publishing News: Spielberg, Poitier, Reiner pay tribute -- At Monday's memorial service for Army Archerd, Steven Spielberg said the late Variety columnist had been "our industry's continuity. He was the link between the golden past and the rapidly changing present."
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Publishing News: Scholarship winner pursues path as critic -- With constant cutbacks and some orgs ridding themselves of the position entirely, professional film criticism is not exactly a growth industry.
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Publishing News: Studio cements ties with Stan Lee -- Mickey Mouse has officially adopted a whole bunch of superhero playmates.
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Publishing News: German, Italian newspapers seek legal protection -- In continental Europe the growing controversy over how Google and other search sites are impacting the news industry is taking on contentious tones.
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Publishing News: Billboard, Adweek, Backstage also acquired -- The Hollywood Reporter has been sold to e5 Global Media, a new company jointly owned by equity partner Pluribus Capital Management and financial services firm Guggenheim Partners.
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Publishing News: Magazine publisher partners with BermanBraun -- Hachette Filipacchi wants its own Wonderwall for women.
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Publishing News: Former L.A. Times editor, reporter to begin in January -- Leo Wolinsky, an editor and reporter at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years, has been named editor of Daily Variety, encompassing both the L.A. and Gotham editions.
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Publishing News: Sam Zell names CEO, but remains chairman -- Sam Zell has handed the CEO reins at Tribune Co. to his top lieutenant, Randy Michaels.
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Publishing News: B&C, Multichannel, Twice to be purchased -- New York-based NewBay Media has struck a deal to purchase trade publications Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and Twice from Reed Business Information, parent company of Variety.
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Publishing News: News Corp. CEO defends pay-for-news model -- To thrive in the digital age, media companies need to persuade consumers to pay for news online by providing compelling information in any form they want, News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday.
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Publishing News: PBS host to pen weekly piece for news magazine -- Charlie Rose is headed to BusinessWeek. The interviewer and host of the eponymous PBS show will pen a weekly column for the news magazine, featuring interviews with "thinkers, politicians and newsmakers" according to a press release.

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