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    May 22, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  1. Short story writer Lydia Davis wins major fiction prize

    Reuters
    LONDON (Reuters) - American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published. Davis, a professor of creative writing at the...

    Tags: England, Jonathan Franzen, Dwayne Johnson, Fiction, French Literature

    2. May 22, 2013 |Story| Reuters

  2. Short story writer Lydia Davis wins Man Booker Intl fiction prize

    Reuters
    By Paul Casciato LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published. Davis - who has only...

    Tags: England, Jonathan Franzen, Dwayne Johnson, Fiction, French Literature

    3. May 15, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  3. Poor IRS; it didn't mean to target tea parties

    Well, this would explain my $25,000 tax bill. Looks like I picked the wrong year to start up a right-wing militia group.
    Well, this would explain my $25,000 tax bill. Looks like I picked the wrong year to start up a right-wing militia group. I called it “Tim’s Teas,” and well, who knew? I swear, we were simply a “social welfare”...

    Tags: U.S. Congress, Google Inc., Taxation, The Herald-Mail, Internal Revenue Service

    4. May 14, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  4. It's rich that the IRS wants us to believe it never targets anyone

    Well, this would explain my $25,000 tax bill. Looks like I picked the wrong year to start up a right-wing militia group.
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    Well, this would explain my $25,000 tax bill. Looks like I picked the wrong year to start up a right-wing militia group. I called it “Tim’s Teas,” and well, who knew? I swear, we were simply a “social welfare” organization...

    Tags: U.S. Congress, Google Inc., Taxation, The Herald-Mail, Internal Revenue Service

    5. May 12, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  5. 'Distant Intimacy,' Gaddis letters open up very different literary lives

    The Buffalo News
    If one is to believe Joseph Epstein's introduction to "Distant Intimacy" -- one of the most wickedly entertaining books anyone is likely to concoct all year -- he and his 335-page email correspondent Frederic Raphael still haven't met. Nor have they...

    Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Literature, Authors, Gore Vidal, Awards and Prizes

    6. May 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. A book for Mother's Day? The mystery of my mother's reading habits

    No two readers are alike. No two mothers are alike. And the only way to really find out what might be a good book to get your mother for Mother’s Day is to ask her what she likes to read.
    No two readers are alike. No two mothers are alike. And the only way to really find out what might be a good book to get your mother for Mother’s Day is to ask her what she likes to read. My own mother’s reading habits have always been a bit...

    Tags: Guatemala, Mother's Day, Authors, Central Intelligence Agency, Golda Meir

    7. May 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Stephen Colbert, Jennifer Egan and 'The Great Gatsby' [Video]

    On his show Thursday night, Stephen Colbert hosted a book club with distinct Oprah-like overtones: cozy chairs, yellow pillows, a pastel tie and chardonnay. The book at hand was F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." To discuss the novel, he...

    Tags: True Blood (tv program), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Fiction, Oprah Winfrey, Google+

    8. May 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Celebrate Thomas Pynchon's birthday with Pynchon in Public Day

    Happy birthday to Thomas Pynchon! The reclusive author  of "Gravity's Rainbow," "The Crying of Lot 49," "Mason & Dixon" and more turns 76 today.
    Happy birthday to Thomas Pynchon! The reclusive author  of "Gravity's Rainbow," "The Crying of Lot 49," "Mason & Dixon" and more turns 76 today. Unlike the attention-seekers that clog our cultural aqueduct, Pynchon isn't likely to show up on CNN or NPR....

    Tags: NPR, Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Google+

    9. May 7, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. No one cares more

    The Baltimore Sun
    When I got my reviewer's copy of Bill Walsh's new book, Yes I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk (St. Martin's Griffin, 256 pages, $14.99), the book fell open to this passage: "You're free to talk back to your usage guides....

    Tags: Pump Room, Language

    10. May 3, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Mixtape review: Chance the Rapper's stellar, infinite 'Acid Rap'

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    Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic
    This post has been updated. See below for details. An infinite jest, Chicago lyricist Chance the Rapper's stellar new mixtape "Acid Rap" begins with a woman's seductive voice -- chanteuse Lili K. -- uttering, "Even better than I was the last time, baby,...

    Tags: Kanye West, Chief Keef, LSD, Lil Reese, Butter

    11. Apr 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Adam Johnson wins the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 2013

    The Pulitzer Prize in fiction, announced Monday, has been awarded to Adam Johnson for his book set in North Korea, "The Orphan Master's Son." The committee described the book as "an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart."
    The Pulitzer Prize in fiction, announced Monday, has been awarded to Adam Johnson for his book set in North Korea, "The Orphan Master's Son." The committee described the book as "an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome...

    Tags: North Korea, NPR, Ernest Hemingway, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Fiction

    12. Apr 6, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. A grammarian's lament

    I recently read David Quammen's "Spillover," a scary, brilliant book about zoonotic diseases. Quammen is a marvelous stylist. But I was dismayed to discover, on page 506, this sentence: "One of the things that makes influenza so problematic, Webster said, is its propensity to change." If you're unoffended by that construction, or have no idea what's wrong with it, you're probably less obsessed with usage manuals than I am.
    I recently read David Quammen's "Spillover," a scary, brilliant book about zoonotic diseases. Quammen is a marvelous stylist. But I was dismayed to discover, on page 506, this sentence: "One of the things that makes influenza so problematic, Webster said,...

    Tags: Flu, University of Chicago, Authors, Chicago Tribune

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