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Book News: Gay Bookstore Said To Be The Nation's Oldest Is Closing

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Book News: Gay Bookstore Said To Be The Nation's Oldest Is Closing

May 6, 2014 • Also: Edwidge Danticat on the real price of sugar; the winners of the O. Henry Prize.

Book News: Authors Rip U.K. Ban On Sending Books To Prisoners

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Book News: Authors Rip U.K. Ban On Sending Books To Prisoners

March 25, 2014 • Louise Erdrich has a new short story; The New York Public Library has launched a book recommending tool that uses an algorithm to suggest titles.

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Book News: Ned O'Gorman, Poet And Founder Of Harlem School, Dies

March 10, 2014 • Also: Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan injured; Adam Johnson on imagining North Korea; the best books coming out this week.

Louise Erdrich's 'The Round House' Wins National Book Award For Fiction

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Louise Erdrich's 'The Round House' Wins National Book Award For Fiction

November 14, 2012 • Erdrich's novel is laced with emotional nuance, and demonstrates in painful detail the legal and cultural obstacles to prosecuting rapists on a North Dakota reservation. Katherine Boo's acclaimed Behind the Beautiful Forevers – about life in a slum in Mumbai, India — won the nonfiction award.