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Albert Camus's The Stranger Among Books on President Bush's Reading List

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Online Only, posted 8.25.06

The White House press office recently released a list of books that President George W. Bush is reading this summer. Kenneth T. Walsh, in an article in U.S. News and World Reports, writes that White House staffers have said the president is engaged in an informal contest with senior adviser Karl Rove to see who can read more books this year. 

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Carey, Grenville, and Mitchell Among Booker Prize Semifinalists

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Online Only, posted 8.21.06

On August 14 the judges of the 2006 Booker Prize announced a list of nineteen semifinalists. The annual prize, worth £50,000 (approximately $94,900), is sponsored by the Man Group investment company and is given for the best novel of the year by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Ireland.

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German Novelist Günter Grass Admits Service in the Nazi SS

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Online Only, posted 8.16.06

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Günter Grass recently revealed that he served in the Waffen Schutzstaffel (SS), the elite military combat wing of the Nazi party.

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Dan Brown, J. K. Rowling Among Highest Earning Celebrities

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Online Only, posted 8.15.06

Five authors are among this year's Celebrity 100, a ranking of the highest earning and most popular celebrities in the world, published annually by Forbes magazine.

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Poet James Arthur Wins Amy Lowell Scholarship

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Online Only, posted 8.14.06

Poet James Arthur recently received the $47,000 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

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Amazon Options Screen Rights To Keith Donohue's Debut Novel

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Online Only, posted 8.10.06

Amazon.com recently optioned screen rights to Keith Donohue's best-selling debut novel The Stolen Child (Nan A. Talese, 2006). It is the online retailer's first venture into feature films and the creation of content not limited to its Web site.

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