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- New Ways to Kill Your Mother
Author and essayist Colm Tóibín explores the ways that writers' families influence their work.
- Reader recommendation: Deafening
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- Richard Ford: Why writing is an act of optimism
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Ford talks about his new novel "Canada," his memories of the late Raymond Carver, and how art makes life.
- Reader recommendation: Gandhi's List of Social Sins
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- 'Bring Up the Bodies': 5 other portrayals of Anne Boleyn One of history's most divisive personalities, Anne Boleyn has taken the spotlight again in Hilary Mantel's new novel "Bring Up the Bodies." Here are five other portrayals of the queen in pop culture.
- 'Barack Obama: The Story': 7 excerpts from the controversial book 7 stories biographer David Maraniss presented in his new book "Barack Obama: The Story."
- Bill supported by J.D. Salinger's family is vetoed in New Hampshire
Gov. John Lynch vetoed a bill that would have allowed J.D. Salinger's family to control his identity for 70 years after his death.
- A new app keeps you writing – or else
The app and desktop program 'Write or Die' fights procrastination by deleting text or making obnoxious noises when writers fail to buckle down.
- The Lost Bank
Wall Street Journal reporter Kirsten Grind tells the arrogant, shocking, utterly mad story of the biggest bank failure in US history.
- Reader recommendation: 52 Loaves
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