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Art Beat talks to Phillip Hoose, who last week won the National Book Award for young people's literature for "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice."
Drunk yet? Good. Now, grab your wallet, and beat the Black Friday crowds to the best present ev-ar: our James Franco and National Book Award winner-endorsed Gawker Sarah Palin Slambook. It's awesome,...
Though every page testifies to the well-stocked mind of Sutherland, it is particularly revealing of his chain of thought.
Day dreamers constantly get pushed to pay attention and author Diana DelRusso learned to channel those subconscious thoughts into her latest children's book, "Pages, The Book-Maker Elf.
Clive James best known as a broadcaster and writer of memoirs has finally received recognition as a poet after being nominated for the Costa book prize.
New author Michael Willihnganz believes that when it comes to Chinese political history of the past 200 years or so, Americans are sorely misinformed.
$15 Gift For You With Every $100 Gift Certificate Purchased! The hilarious Sister's Christmas Catechism in Ordway's McKnight Theatre Now Thru Dec 27.
Piha photographer Craig Levers has documented our unique relationship with the sea in his new book.
Another engrossing Anita Shreve novel about adventure in Africa, and a marriage in turmoil.
Five non-fiction authors have been named as finalists for the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honor.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A Portland, Maine, author has won a National Book Award for his book about a civil rights pioneer whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white woman helped set the stage for desegregation of public transportation in the South.
In a special National Book Foundation online vote, author Flannery O’Connor edged out William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon and other leading writers.
A couple of weeks ago I had the good fortune to pick up a book from local Incline Village author Diane Inman. She had called and asked me if I would like to review a book of hers entitled, "The Fine Art of Angling." Inman had produced a book by gathering 10 of the most prestigious modern-day sporting (angling) artists in the country. In the book she tells us all about the artist and their work ...
Irish novelist Colum McCann has won the prestigious 2009 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” a remarkable meditation on September 11, seen though the prism of an earlier decade.
TORONTO - Naomi Klein says her next book will examine the environmental movement that has galvanized young people the same way the anti-corporate movement did 10 years ago.
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