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In parting from the usual, Citizen Reader has posted a list of the worst books of 2008, which happens to include The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (one that we included...

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Nobel laureate Harold Pinter died last night at the age of 78. He had been suffering from cancer. Perhaps Britain's most famous playwright, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize...

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In the opening pages of Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg says it's "something of a sacrilege" to speak of mental illness as anything besides the "chemical brain disease that it...

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