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Pulitzer Prize: huge sales neither required nor guaranteedAfter winning the highest honor in the literary world, the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners have seen sales increases 鈥� but so far the numbers are pretty tiny.
'The Hunger Games' trilogy drives juvenile fiction sales up 13.1 percent for 2012According to a new report by the Association of American Publishers, children's and young adult books experienced a sales jump driven by hardcover sales of Suzanne Collins' trilogy.
Poetry Out Loud 2013 finals: students from all over the US will competePoetry Out Loud, a national recitation contest, will help to wrap up Poetry Month tonight in Washington, D.C.
Bunker HillNathaniel Philbrick retells the story of the bloodiest battle of the American Revolution, after which there was no turning back.
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'Sookie Stackhouse' series will end this MayThe 'Sookie Stackhouse' series by Charlaine Harris 鈥� the basis for HBO's 'True Blood' TV show 鈥� will wrap up with the release of the 13th book, 'Dead Ever After.'
Climate change inspires a new literary genre: cli-fiCli-fi, or 'climate fiction,' describes a dystopian present, as opposed to a dystopian future. And don't call it 'science fiction.' Cli-fi is literary fiction.
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Down the Up EscalatorBarbara Garson tells the stories of Americans who have lost jobs 鈥� and hope 鈥� during the Great Recession.
Boston marathon bombing: how it connects Tolstoy, David Foster WallaceEchoes of one of Tolstoy's great works, inspired by the conflict between Russia and Chechnya, can be found in the final novel by David Foster Wallace.
'The Great Gatsby' movie tie-in cover rankles some fansF. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' is experiencing huge sales in advance of Baz Luhrmann's cinematic take on the novel, but a cover featuring Luhrmann's leads doesn't appeal to some.
Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing' gets a new trailerJoss Whedon's take on Shakespeare's classic keeps the original language but updates the plot to a modern setting.
Don DeLillo becomes first writer to receive the Library of Congress Prize for American FictionDon DeLillo, who has been called 'chief shaman of the paranoid school of American fiction,' is the author of works that include 'White Noise' and 'Underworld.'
5 memoirs to add to your 2013 reading list A new crop of memoirs takes readers to the worlds authors once knew.
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Saul Bellow's HeartGreg Bellow's memoir of life as Saul Bellow's son offers unique insights into the author and the man.
Jason Segel will pen series for kidsThe first part of the middle-grade trilogy, titled 'Nightmares!,' will come out in fall 2014.
Let's Talk Diabetes with OwlsDavid Sedaris proves as quick-witted as ever in this new collection of essays.
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