books
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PublishedOctober 25, 2022
John Jay Osborn Jr., author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ dies at 77
The 1973 novel and subsequent film about a Harvard Law School student was praised for its unvarnished portrait of intellectual life.
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PublishedOctober 17, 2022
Novel by Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
Karunatilaka won the prestigious award for fiction for 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.' Among those in the running was part-time Maine resident Elizabeth Strout.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2022
Maine Voices: Consider a peaceful devolution of America into several nations
Could it be that there are limits to growth? Four interesting books light the way.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2022
Judge thwarts Virginia Republicans’ effort to limit sale of books at Barnes & Noble
The 2 books at the heart of the suit are Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer,' a memoir about identifying as nonbinary, and Sarah J. Maas's 'A Court of Mist and Fury,' a fantasy novel that depicts a dark fairy romance.
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PublishedAugust 24, 2022
Our View: Maine school districts shouldn’t yield to book-banning minority
Students can handle difficult discussions – don’t let a few parents deny them those lessons.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2022
Author Nicholas Evans, whose ‘Horse Whisperer’ became a phenomenon, dies at 72
Evans was deeply in debt and looking for direction when he heard story that 'made me shiver' and would change his life.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2022
Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York
Rushdie's 1988 novel, 'The Satanic Verses,' was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims, who saw a character as an insult to the Prophet Muhammad, among other objections.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2022
‘The Snowman’ children’s author Raymond Briggs dies at 88
Briggs' wordless book, about a boy's wintry creation that comes to life, has sold more than 5.5 million copies around the world.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2022
Our View: Mega-mergers can be nightmarish. Just ask Stephen King.
When power becomes consolidated in fewer and fewer hands, the market gets skewed, and workers and consumers ultimately suffer.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2022
Stephen King testifies for government in book publishers’ antitrust trial
The bestselling author's appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington brought a narrative of the evolution of book publishing toward the dominance of the Big Five companies.
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