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Admirers ask Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- seated alongside his wife, Mercedes Barcha -- to sign books in Santa Marta, Colombia, in 2007.

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Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies

8:06pm April 17, 2014

by Mandalit del Barco

The master of magic realism was the region's best-known writer. His novels were filled with miraculous events and characters; love and madness; wars, dreams and death. He died Thursday at 87.

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Kumail Nanjiani (from left), Martin Starr, Thomas Middleditch, Zach Woods and T.J. Miller star in Silicon Valley, Mike Judge's new sitcom about young programmers trying to hit it rich.

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'Silicon Valley' Asks: Is Your Startup Really Making The World Better?

6:45pm April 17, 2014

Mike Judge's HBO sitcom pokes fun at programmers hoping to hit it rich. It's not the first time Judge has satirized the workplace: His 1999 cult film Office Space explored desk-job-induced ennui.

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'Bintel Brief' And 'Hellfighters': American Stories, Powerfully Illustrated

4:57pm April 17, 2014

by Maureen Corrigan

Critic Maureen Corrigan recommends two graphic novels — one about a Yiddish advice column in the early 1900s and another about a regiment of African-American soldiers who fought during World War I.

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Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance Presents "Chess"

8:30am April 17, 2014

by David Ford

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Kinder Than Solitude is Yiyun Li's sixth book.

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Book Review: 'Kinder Than Solitude'

8:20pm April 16, 2014

by Ellah Allfrey

Ellah Allfrey reviews Kinder Than Solitude, by Yiyun Li.

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Crime writer Giorgio Scerbanenco was born in Kiev in 1911, grew up in Rome and worked for decades as a journalist in Milan.

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Exploring Life's Incurable Soiledness With The Father Of Italian Noir

3:33pm April 16, 2014

by John Powers

A crackling new translation of Giorgio Scerbanenco's crime novel Private Venus has just been released. Critic John Powers read it in a single sitting.

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Meet the Artist: Singer/Songwriter Tyler Barham

7:48am April 16, 2014

by David Ford

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Carlotta Gall began reporting on Afghanistan in November 2001, just after the U.S. started bombing the country in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Pakistan, The Taliban And The Real 'Enemy' Of The Afghanistan War

7:42pm April 15, 2014

In a new book, New York Times correspondent Carlotta Gall offers new information about how Pakistan has helped the Taliban in Afghanistan and may have helped hide Osama bin Laden.

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FX's 'Fargo' Is Neither Remake Nor Sequel

5:05pm April 15, 2014

by David Bianculli

The cable network premieres a new drama series tonight. It's called Fargo, and has the same title as the 1996 Coen Brothers movie. Critic David Bianculli says it's very definitely a wonderful show in that same wacky spirit – but it's just as important to note what this new Fargo is not. It's not a remake — and it's not a sequel.

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From Stick Figures To Portraits, Bush Frees His Inner Rembrandt

4:26pm April 15, 2014

by Lauren Silverman

Former President George W. Bush worked with many world leaders while in office. Now, he's unveiling 24 portraits he painted of some of them. The exhibit will be at his new presidential library.

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