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Most frequently challenged authors of the 21st century
Please note that the most frequently challenged authors may not appear in the list of most frequently challenged books. For example, if every one of Judy Blume’s books was challenged–but only once–not one of her books would make the...Tags: Mark Twain, Politics, Maya Angelou, J.K. Rowling , Stephen King
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Most challenged books of the past decade, 71-80
71. "Junie B. Jones" (series), by Barbara Park 72. "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison 73. "What’s Happening to My Body Book," by Lynda Madaras 74. "The Lovely Bones," by Alice Sebold 75. "Anastasia" (series), by Lois Lowry 76. "A Prayer...Tags: Politics, Censorship, John Irving
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Book review: 'The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson Random House: 622 pp, $30 It was an all-too-familiar dispatch from a particular time and place. The Clarks, a young black family of four, were trying to improve...Tags: Ellis Island, Entertainment, Music, Mississippi, Journalism
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PASSINGS: Elaine Koster, Phelps 'Catfish' Collins, Jack Parnell, Dave Dixon, Matthew R. Simmons, Travis Harrelson
Elaine Koster
Publisher with a knack for new talent
Elaine Koster, 69, a publisher and literary agent with a knack for new talent who gave a second chance to an obscure horror writer named Stephen King and took on an unknown Khaled Hosseini and his...Tags: Entertainment, Benny Hill, Sports, Jim Henson, England
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Our 12 favorite non-book literary oddities on EBay
Jacket CopyInspired by Salinger's toilet -- which was listed for sale on EBay for $1 million -- Jacket Copy decided to see what other literary-ish items are currently for sale on the site. What we discovered? The doozy dozen. The first...... -
Most challenged books of the past decade, 21-30
Sept. 26-Oct. 2 is National Banned Books Week.Here's numbers 21-30 of the most challenged books of the past decade. 21 To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 22 Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar 23 The Giver, by Lois Lowry 24 In the...Tags: Politics, Censorship
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Center stage: middle-class African Americans
Guess who's coming to the beach barbecue this summer? Middle-class African Americans, that's who.
In two new critically esteemed works, Lydia Diamond's play "Stick Fly" and Colson Whitehead's just-published semiautobiographical novel "Sag Harbor"...Tags: Mississippi, Family, New York City, New York, Arts and Culture
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Off The Shelf: The day Hemingway's Nobel Prize came out of hiding
Last year, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The prize has been handed out annually, with the exception of the World War II years, since 1901, when French poet René F.A. Sully-...Tags: Literature, Tourism and Leisure, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, Christianity
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'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...Tags: Barack Obama, John Adams, Walt Whitman, Randy Newman, California
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Travels with Audrey Niffenegger
![<em class="i">Kedzie. Rockwell.</em>](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-09/49463815-25095558-187105.jpg "<em class="i\">Kedzie. Rockwell.</em>")
Tribune reporterKedzie. Rockwell. We board the Brown Line at its farthest northwest stop, Kimball. We're headed downtown. We're on a mission to prove that Audrey Niffenegger, who grew up in Evanston with few friends and is at work on a novel about a 9-year-old girl...Tags: Entertainment, San Francisco, Audrey Niffenegger, Brad Pitt, Arts
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Los Angeles Times bestsellers for Sept. 13, 2009
Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ($14) 3. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger($14.95) 4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith ($12....Tags: Malcolm Gladwell, David Oliver, Audrey Niffenegger, Julia Child, Jane Austen
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Washington Post: Barack Obama's The First Woman President
![A <i>Washington Post</i> columnist suggests if "Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president," claiming the president suffers from a form of "rhetorical-testosterone deficit."](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-06/54680478-30161952-187105.jpg "A <i>Washington Post</i> columnist suggests if "Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president,\" claiming the president suffers from a form of \"rhetorical-testosterone deficit.\"")
FOX40 NewsA Washington Post columnist suggests if "Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president," claiming the president suffers from a form of "rhetorical-testosterone deficit."...Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Executive Branch, The Washington Post, Government
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