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Book News: Mich. School System Won't Ban Anne Frank's 'Pornographic' Diary
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 5 days ago
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School System Won't Ban Anne Frank's 'Pornographic' Diary by Annalisa Quinn May 13, 2013 7:42 AM The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Last week, the mother of a seventh-grader in Northville, Mich., filed a
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Mr. Bellow's Planet: Saul's Son Speaks Up
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
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Saul Bellow. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) Born in 1915, Saul Bellow published his first novel, Dangling Man , in 1944. He would go on to write 18 books of fiction (14 novels, four story collections) which between them would win him the Pulitzer
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Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award
Pen :: India | 18 days ago
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Philip Roth's latest honor was as much for what he has done for other writers as for his own work. Roth received the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award Tuesday night. He was cited for such novels as "Portnoy's Complaint" and "American
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Lecture seeks to benefit community
Fort Wayne :: IN :: USA | 24 days ago
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Foer will be speaking as part of the Jewish Federation's annual People of the Book lecture, which brings authors of critical acclaim to the city, to enrich the community with literature and raise donations for local groups. The event is free, but
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Debut novel earns top prize for Jewish lit
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Segal will receive the Jewish Book Council's first-prize award of $100,000. The novel is set in modern-day London, in a community living in the shadow of the Holocaust and the demands of tradition. Segal's attention to details of Jewish traditions
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This Week on Stage: ‘Matilda' casts her spell on Broadway
London :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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This week marks the arrival of the biggest Brit hit musical since a little boy named Billy Elliot pirouetted his way across the pond, but the Off Broadway offerings in this round-up are also not to be ignored. As we prep for a tidal wave of openings
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Intentions and deeds: Parshat Shmini
Jerusalem :: Israel | 1 month ago
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Men gathered to pray at the Western Wall Photo: Marc Israel Sellem The Kuzari is a profound book of philosophy written in a unique literary style by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, one of the Jewish nation's great poets of the 11th century. He begins with a
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'Masters' profiles Philip Roth and the novels of his times
Newark :: NJ :: USA | 1 month ago
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The act of sitting before a desk and a blank piece of paper or a typewriter or a laptop is about as solitary and unexciting as it gets...With the exception of a handful of brief clips of fellow writers, critics and old friends, "Unmasked" consists of
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John Walsh: For Roth, Newark is the home of the archetypal American life
Newark :: NJ :: USA | 1 month ago
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William Faulkner wrote several works about the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Steinbeck mined the possibilities of his native California in the Dustbowl years of the Depression. But we have to look back to James Joyce and his love-hate relationship
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Philip Roth documentary on KQED
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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In the 90-minute film, the 80-year-old Roth discusses intimate aspects of his life and art. Roth grants very few interviews, but for the first time allowed a journalist to spend 10 days interviewing him on camera. In Unmasked, he discusses women,
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