Harold Pinter, Nobel-Winning Playwright, Is Dead at 78 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Harold Pinter, the British playwright whose gifts for finding the ominous in the everyday and the noise within silence made him the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation, died on Wednesday. He was 78 and lived in London.
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End of the book? – Los Angeles Times: From his perspective of more than 30 years in the publishing industry, Tom Engelhardt speculates on the current state of the industry: In scale, even the largest of modern publishers isn’t exactly a General Motors or a Citigroup or an AIG, in part because unlike cars, banking
These are both from The Seattle Times: Our Picks for the Best Books of 2008 “Our reviewers have nominated . . . books that informed, inspired and delighted them,” announces the newspaper’s book editor. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction. Our Critic’s Top Ten Fiction Books of 2008 Critic Michael Upchurch’s list of “eight
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The Big Read is a national page-turner – Los Angeles Times: Developed by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Big Read funds projects nationwide in an effort, NEA literature director David Kipen explains, ‘to restore reading to the heart of American life.’ This newspaper article, which understandably focuses on Southern California, may pique your
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Literary Map of Maine | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram: What a delight! The Literary Map of Maine is a partnership between the Maine Sunday Telegram newspaper and several of the state’s libraries and humanities groups. Here you can read about such classic authors of American literature as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet
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Books | The year’s best mystery books | Seattle Times Newspaper: Seattle Times crime-fiction columnist Adam Woog’s picks for best mysteries of 2008 include works by Tana French, Alan Furst, P.D. James, John le Carré, Richard Price and other authors whose books will keep readers turning the pages well into 2009.
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The Top Ten Top-Ten Lists – Paper Cuts Blog – NYTimes.com: Just in case you missed any of these (and I seem to have missed most of them), The New York Times book blog provides links to still more year-end “best books” lists.
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Crime – Notable Crime Fiction of 2008 – NYTimes.com: I’ve already linked to The New York Times‘s other “notable books” lists, but this is a new one: mystery reviewer Marilyn Stasio’s list of best thrillers and mysteries.
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