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Book Review: 鈥楥ategory Five鈥 examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

Book Review: 鈥楥ategory Five鈥 examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

I graduated from Middlebury College with Porter Fox just over 30 years ago. We weren鈥檛 friends, but it was a small campus and everyone knew something about everybody else. I knew he sailed and wore L.L. Bean like a native Mainer.

Jessica Hagedorn, R.F. Kuang among winners of American Book Awards, which celebrate multiculturalism

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, 鈥淵ellowface鈥 novelist R.F.
Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

An atomic bombing is so horrific all accounts tend to be quintessential. M.G. Sheftall鈥檚 鈥淗iroshima: The Last Witnesses,鈥 a carefully and respectfully researched oral history, is no different.
Mattea Roach, host of new literary radio show 'Bookends,' on their love of reading

Mattea Roach, host of new literary radio show 'Bookends,' on their love of reading

TORONTO 鈥 Mattea Roach is starting a new professional chapter. The Toronto-based "Jeopardy" super-champion turned podcaster will hit the airwaves Canada-wide this weekend as they take the helm of C小蓝视频's new literary radio show, "Bookends.
'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement

'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Barbara Kingsolver, this year's recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn't imagine receiving such honors.
Carol Off wants her new book about divisive language to eventually become irrelevant

Carol Off wants her new book about divisive language to eventually become irrelevant

TORONTO 鈥 Carol Off hopes her latest book will become irrelevant as the years pass. She fears it will not.
Fictional sleuth Sam Spade will be back on the job in upcoming novel by Max Allan Collins

Fictional sleuth Sam Spade will be back on the job in upcoming novel by Max Allan Collins

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 The story of one of the great fictional sleuths, Dashiell Hammett 's Sam Spade, will be continued by prize-winning crime writer Max Allan Collins.

An appeals court upholds a ruling that an online archive's book sharing violated copyright law

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 An appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law by scanning and sharing digital books without the publishers' permission.
Giller Prize releases long list, drops Scotiabank from name

Giller Prize releases long list, drops Scotiabank from name

TORONTO 鈥 The group of authors in contention for this year鈥檚 $100,000 Giller Prize has been whittled down to 12, but one name is notably absent from the list: Scotiabank.

Appeals court upholds ruling that online archive's book sharing violated copyright law

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 An appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law by scanning and sharing digital books without the publishers' permission.
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