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Press Gazette Editor’s Blog » Why a free press can’t be dismantled to accommodate the ‘foibles’ of
blogs.pressgazette.co.uk | Feb 10, 2012
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre put forward a compelling case for intruding into the private lives of the rich and famous in his supplementary witness statement to the Leveson Inquiry. In it he quotes from a piece written gy Auberon Waugh for the New Statesman in the 1970s, defnding legendary Mail

Omnivoracious: Nobel Prize Winner Wislawa Szymborska: 1923-2012
www.omnivoracious.com | Feb 9, 2012
Polish poet, essayist, and translator Wislawa Szymborska--winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature--has died of lung cancer at age 88. She had been living in Krakow. Though she was little-known outside of Poland at the time, the Nobel awards...

BookFox: Nobel Prize for Literature 2011
www.thejohnfox.com | Feb 9, 2012
Over the last decade the Nobel Prize for Literature has alternated between a proscriptive award and a descriptive one. A proscriptive award takes little known but worthy authors and presents them in a bow and wrapping to the world, telling everyone to read. A descriptive award honors the authors

Syracuse University alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction | syracuse.com
blog.syracuse.com | Feb 9, 2012
Just learned that Elizabeth Strout, who yesterday won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for her novel, Olive Kitteridge, is a 1982 graduate of the Syracuse University College of Law. According to Contemporary Authors, Strout was born Jan. 6, 1956, in Portland, Maine. She earned her bachelor's

The Risks And Rewards Of Practicing Yoga : NPR
www.npr.org | Feb 7, 2012
Yoga can be extremely beneficial, but it also can be quite dangerous. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Broad examines the pleasures and pitfalls of the practice in his latest book, The Science of Yoga.

Scribe News: Alom Shaha at Avid Reader Bookshop » Scribe Publications
www.scribepublications.com.au | Feb 7, 2012
Scribe Publications Small Publisher of the Year 2011, 2010, 2008, 2006 Search Home News & Events Henry's Blog Books & Authors Order Books Contact Scribe Scribe Fiction Prize Recent Bestsellers Scribe News 7 February 2012 Alom Shaha at Avid Reader Bookshop 1 March 2012 Share this post! Special Radio

Books | 4 good reads from National Book Critics Circle awards' finalists | Seattle Times Newspaper
seattletimes.nwsource.com | Feb 3, 2012
A roundup of four great books — all finalists in the National Book Critics Circle awards — from biography ( " George F. Kennan: An American Life " by John Lewis Gaddis) to fiction ( " The Stranger ' s Child " by Alan Hollinghurst).

Wislawa Szymborska dead at 88 | Quillblog | Quill & Quire
www.quillandquire.com | Feb 1, 2012
Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada’s magazine of book news and reviews Poland's Wislawa Szymborska, the woman the Nobel Prize committee called the Mozart of poetry died in her hometown of Krakow on Wednesday. From the

La Bloga: 2012 Pura Belpré Award Winners
labloga.blogspot.com | Feb 1, 2012
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Writers Against Racism: (A Fun) 2012 Pura Belpre Honor « Bowllan's Blog
blog.schoollibraryjournal.com | Jan 31, 2012
After the day I had, e-mails like THIS make my day. Thank you, Samantha Vamos! “I love what he did. He’s just something else! Rafael [Lopez ]made a video of his reaction to winning 2012 Pura Belpre Honor.” Take look…this is ‘AWEsome’ at its best.