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Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult

Apr 24 2019: The family and estate of JRR Tolkien have fired a broadside against the forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult as a young version of the author, saying that they “do not endorse it or its content in any way”.

Out in May, and starring Hoult in the title role and ...

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Mark your calendars for this Saturday, April 27, for the fifth annual Independent Bookstore Day

Apr 23 2019: The fifth annual Independent Bookstore Day is this coming Saturday, and the excitement is increasing as stores receive their IBD catalogue orders. IBD is hosting a Twitter party with Bookstore Day ambassador Tayari Jones on Thursday, April 25, at 10 a.m Pacific; join in...

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Warren Adler, who examined family dysfunction in "The War of the Roses", dies aged 91

Apr 23 2019: Warren Adler, a prolific novelist who launched a long and lucrative Hollywood career with his classic story “The War of the Roses” — the story of a hollowed-out marriage that became a runaway movie hit in 1989, has died of complications from liver cancer. He was 91.

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Daphne Du Maurier poems found 90 years on

Apr 16 2019: Thirty years after her death, Daphne du Maurier has not run out of surprises. Undiscovered poems written some 90 years ago when the author of Rebecca was still a literary unknown have been discovered hidden inside a photograph frame.

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Sci-fi and fantasy Grand Master Gene Wolfe has died aged 87

Apr 16 2019: Gene Wolfe, a towering figure in science fiction whose magnum opus The Book of the New Sun was hailed as a masterpiece by Ursula K Le Guin, has died at the age of 87.

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Netflix is on a book acquisition spree

Apr 15 2019: Netflix has been on a book acquisition spree over the past year, developing screen adaptations of dozens of novels, series, short story collections, and graphic novels. About 50 of these literary properties are being turned into series projects, while the screening ...

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Richard Powers wins Pulitzer for "The Overstory"

Apr 15 2019: The 2019 Pulitzers have been announced. The winners in the "Letters" category are:

Fiction: The Overstory by Richard Powers
Nonfiction: Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold
History: Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Biography: The New Negro by Jeffrey ...

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The Library of Congress to remove "illegal aliens" subject heading

Apr 02 2019: The Library of Congress rejected pressure from student activists to change its subject heading "illegal aliens" to "undocumented immigrants," arguing that many do have documentation of some type and that the term is not widely used in law, but has decided to replace the...

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