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"Waiting for Superman" soars in screen and print

Oct 20 2010: Waiting for 'Superman', the documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim about problems in the public school system and how to fix them, had a limited release October 8 and is now rolling out nationally. Last weekend the movie played in 182 theaters, was #18 and had ticket ...

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Belva Plain dies at 95

Oct 18 2010: Belva Plain died last week at the age of 95. The author of more than 20 bestselling books and known for epic novels of family and forgiveness, she never owned a computer and wrote in longhand on a yellow pad.

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National Book Award finalists announced

Oct 13 2010: The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Titles in the running for the Fiction award include Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America, Nicole Krauss's Great House and Lionel Shriver's So Much for That.

Nonfiction includes Nothing to...

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"The Finkler Question" wins Booker Prize

Oct 12 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson has won this year's Man Booker Prize. More about the book at BookBrowse (link below):

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Fifth novel in Stieg Larsson's "trilogy" confirmed

Oct 12 2010: Rumors of a completed novel to follow Steig Larsson's first three Millennium series novels (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo etc), has been confirmed, but it doesn't look like it will be publishing anytime soon as the book resides on a computer belonging to Larsson's ...

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Orange Award for New Writers now a year long promotion

Oct 12 2010: The UK's Orange Prize is dropping their award for new writers, in favor of digital promotions and an online book club that they say will "be able to support a greater number of first time writers in a year long campaign."

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Excitement returns to Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show

Oct 12 2010: An atmosphere of excitement and optimism missing in recent years permeated the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association fall trade show held in Portland, Oreg. on October 7-9

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Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel

Oct 07 2010: Mario Vargas Llosa's publisher at Faber (UK) has hailed the 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature as "a writer of enormous range, passion and insight".

Lee Brackstone spoke to The Bookseller (the UK's leading publishing industry magazine) after the Peruvian ...

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