The Best Books of 2013 Book-selling giant Amazon of course has lots of best books lists. Check out these categories: Editors’ Top 20 Picks Top 20 Customer Favorites arts & photography audiobooks biographies & memoirs business & investing children’s books comics & graphic novels cookbooks & food writing crafts, home, & garden gift picks history […]
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Ned Vizzini dies at 32: Fans mourn ‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’ writer – TODAY.com.
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The lists of best books for 2013 are accumulating quickly. Here are some that I’ve found so far. The 10 Best Books of 2013 Courtesy of The New York Times, the five best works of fiction and of nonfiction. Best Books of 2013 Goodreads readers have spoken. See their top choices for the year in
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National Book Awards go to James McBride, George Packer – latimes.com.
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AP News: Mexican author wins Spain Cervantes letters prize.
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Barbara Park, a former class clown who channeled her irreverence into the million-selling mishaps of grade schooler Junie B. Jones, has died. She was 66. Park died Friday after a long battle with ovarian cancer, according to a statement released Sunday by Random House Books for Young Readers. She was a longtime resident of Scottsdale,
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Doris Lessing, Nobel-winning writer, dies at 94 – The Washington Post. Sad news.
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What’s old is new again in the pages of “Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects.” If you like to write and pursue other creative endeavors, you’ll want to learn more about this new literary publication from Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. It’s connected with the school’s master of fine arts program in creative
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Lynn Coady has been named the 2013 winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short story collection Hellgoing, published by House of Anansi Press. via Lynn Coady Wins The 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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Robert McCloskey Sketches for “Make Way for Ducklings” Born in 1914 in Hamilton, Ohio, Robert McCloskey came to Boston to attend the now-defunct Vesper George Art School. He left to live in New York for a time and established a career as an author and illustrator in the late 1930s. Over the years, he became
