NEW YORK – Film rights for Philip Roth’s new novel, “Indignation,” have already been optioned by Hollywood producer Scott Rudin, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning “No Country for Old Men” and the commercial smash “The Addams Family.”
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NEW YORK – An uncut edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The First Circle,” a highly praised and controversial novel published 40 years ago and heavily edited because of its story of a Soviet prison camp, is finally coming out in English.
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On the first Saturday in August, at midnight, Wordsmiths Books in Decatur, Ga., will be decorated in black and red.
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NEW YORK – More than four months after Amazon.com released the Kindle, no one is sure whether the latest e-book reader is really hot – or not.
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CINCINNATI – Emma Gary Wallace, professional author, had more than a few notions about the business of writing.
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After more than 20 books, a Pulitzer Prize and many other honors
for his work on the executive and legislative branches of government,
89-year-old historian James MacGregor Burns is ready for a new subject.
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Ha Jin is a winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize.
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NEW YORK – Barry
H. Landau, presidential collector and
connoisseur, remembers the time he was dancing with Betty Ford at the
White House and Fred Astaire cut in.
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NEW YORK – The latest National Endowment for the Arts report
draws on a variety of sources, public and private, and essentially
reaches one conclusion: Americans are reading less.
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