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‘Collision Low Crossers’ recounts a year with the N.Y. JetsNov 28, 2013Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football By Nicholas Dawidoff (Little, Brown and Co.) First, to be fair: “Collision Low Crossers,” Nicholas Dawidoff’s chronicling ... -
World’s most expensive book sells for $14m: Sotheby’sNov 27, 2013This April 2013 file photo provided by Sotheby’s and taken in New York shows what the auction house describes as “the world’s most valuable book,” the Bay Psalm Book, which was the first book ever pr... -
Louise Erdrich wins American Book AwardNov 25, 2013NEW YORK (AP) ― Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Round House” is among the winners this year of an American Book Award, which celebrates the diversity of the country’s literature. Others among the 34 hon...
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McBride wins National Book AwardNov 21, 2013NEW YORK (AP) ― James McBride’s “The Good Lord Bird,” the comic and terrifying adventures of a disguised black child caught up in John Brown’s abolitionist crusade, was the winner Wednesday night of ... -
40 years after ‘The Great Santini,’ Conroy pens a nonfiction sequelNov 21, 2013Author Pat Conroy and wife Sandra King Conroy at their home in Fripp Island, South Carolina in 2002. (MCT) In his 1976 novel, “The Great Santini,” Pat Conroy spilled all the beans that a good son is... -
Mental hospital looms large in Lee Smith’s ‘Guests on Earth’Nov 21, 2013The gravesite of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda Sayre, resides at St. Mary’s cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. (MCT) It’s the spring of 1937 when Evalina Toussaint, the narra... -
Korean sijo in EnglishNov 21, 2013The Crane in the Clouds: Shijo: Korean Classical Poems in the Vernacular, By Lee Sung-il (HOMA & SEKEY BOOKS) Scholar Lee Sung-il recently published a book of more than 100 Korean classical poems, ... -
Jane Austen rebooted; hold the zombiesNov 21, 2013Longbourn By Jo Baker (Alfred A. Knopf) Looking at the ever-growing list of contemporary fiction presuming to improve on Jane Austen (with or without zombies), readers may well wonder why they can... -
‘My Life’ serves as an appetizerNov 14, 2013Several years ago, a cookbook editor friend called asking my advice on whether she should publish Jacques Pepin’s autobiography. Pepin is one of my heroes in food, I told her, but I’d pass on the boo... -
Remembering Nora Ephron in two new collectionsNov 14, 2013Nora Ephron in 2009 (MCT) In her poignant 2010 essay “What I Will Miss,” which appears on the last page of a new omnibus, “The Most of Nora Ephron” (Alfred A. Knopf.), the author listed 31 items ― b... -
‘Star Wars’ trilogy frame-by-frameNov 14, 2013Star Wars: Frames Selected by George Lucas (Abrams, NY) Who hasn’t in their lifetime wanted to study a moment in a film, to pause the action and survey what is going on without fear that the hold ... -
Hunting for WWII MIAs in ‘Vanished’Nov 14, 2013Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II By Wil S. Hylton (Riverhead) The official story was that the war in the Pacific claimed Jimmie Doyle on Sept. 1, 1944, when Japa... -
A century of Camus, France’s unlikely giant of literatureNov 12, 2013PARIS (AFP) ― Albert Camus once said that those who write clearly have readers, while those who write obscurely have commentators. By his own maxim, he must have been doing something right because, ...
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Korea through the pagesNov 8, 2013More foreign readers seeking books related to Korean society, culture -
Daesan Literary awards winners announcedNov 7, 2013(From left) Poet Jin Eun-young, author Kim Soom, playwright Koh Yeok-ok and translator Choi Yang-hee, winners of this year’s Daesan Literary Awards. (Yonhap News) Poet Jin Eun-young, author Kim Soom...
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