LA Times » 1 week ago
Author L.J. Smith, who created the 'Vampire Diaries' otherwordly book series that inspired the CW drama of the same name, died this month. She was 66. ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Chloe Dalton, Helen Scales and Clare Mulley are also in the running for the £30,000 award, with the winner due to be announced on 12 JuneThe Buffalo Stance singer Neneh Cherry, Labour MP Yuan Yang and the doctor Rachel Clarke have been shortlisted for this year’s Women’s ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
In her second memoir, Knox writes about her attempts to adjust to normal life after leaving prison in ItalyWhen Amanda Knox was released from an Italian prison in 2011 after her murder conviction was overturned, her mother insisted she see a trauma specialist. Knox had be...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has ‘plummeted’UK publishing is less accessible to Black authors now than it was five years ago, according to some of the biggest names in the industry....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Journalist Beck argues that the war on terror made America vastly more authoritarian, paving the way for TrumpAlmost a quarter of a century on, is the US still being shaped by 9/11? Richard Beck thinks so, despite all the other shocking and pivotal events there since the ...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The American author on the wonder of Little Women, re-evaluating Lolita and her belated discovery of ThoreauMy earliest reading memory
Andrew Lang’s Fairy books – the blue, yellow and violet ones. And the unadulteratedly grim Brothe...
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LA Times » 10 hours ago
The unnamed narrator of Zee Carlstrom's debut novel is full of anger at their AWOL dad, but over the course of a road trip home begins to question his certainty about their diverging views...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionallyA lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school libra...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
This emotionally astute novel describes a woman’s descent into psychological distress, but some of its ideas remain embryonicNine months is not long enough to grow a physiologically robust human being. Newborns enter the world vulnerable in ways that might be avoided if t...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
Dennis McDougal, a former L.A. Times reporter and bestselling author of over a dozen books, including a biography of Otis Chandler, dies after car accident....
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