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Festivalgoers browse for books during the Miami Book Fair International. PBS will provide live coverage of the fair's events over the course of three days this year.

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Book News: PBS Promises 'Olympic-Style' Coverage Of Miami Book Fair

10:08am November 10, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

The network will feature the massive festival, which boasts hundreds of authors and countless more attendees, in a live webcast. Across the Atlantic, The Hunger Games is getting a theater adaptation.

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Answering The Old Question: Who Lost China?

6:04am November 08, 2014

by Nishant Dahiya

Richard Bernstein's new China 1945 looks at the momentous events of that year in Asia, and argues that the U.S. focus on fighting Japanese forces in China weakened Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalists.

For Political Junkies, A (Literary) Post-Election Fix

8:11pm November 07, 2014

Post-elections, Molly Antopol and Jason Sheehan reflect on the results by turning to their favorite political books, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.

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John Steinbeck, here seen as a young man, sits for his portrait. Years later, his story "With Your Wings" would be read on air — then disappear for decades.

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Book News: John Steinbeck Story Resurfaces After 70 Years

2:43pm November 07, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

Once read on radio by Orson Welles, "With Your Wings" had never been seen in print. Now, after a fateful discovery, it's set to be published. Also: Joshua Ferris has won the Dylan Thomas Prize.

A French Best-Seller's Radical Argument: Vichy Regime Wasn't All Bad

10:23am November 06, 2014

by Eleanor Beardsley

In French Suicide, conservative journalist Eric Zemmour argues that if the country wants to reverse its decline, it must cut through its complex about the collaborationist World War II government.

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Daniel Handler, the man "often mistaken" for Lemony Snicket, will nevertheless have a hand in the development of the show.

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Book News: Netflix To Film Series From Lemony Snicket's 'Unfortunate Events'

10:07am November 06, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

The streaming service reportedly plans to adapt A Series of Unfortunate Events into a TV show. In news of another stream, the Globe Theatre has put dozens of its Shakespeare productions online.

It was Helen Macdonald's relationship with a goshawk like this one that helped her to grapple with the loss of her father.

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Book News: Falconer's Memoir Pulls Down Britain's Top Nonfiction Honor

10:27am November 05, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

The win for Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk marks the first time that the Samuel Johnson Prize has gone to a memoir. Meanwhile, Lena Dunham answers sexual abuse allegations with a statement in Time.

Tom Hanks, perhaps imagining the loss of one of his typewriters.

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Book News: Tom Hanks Turns To The Typewriter For His Debut Collection

10:50am November 04, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

The actor and director plans to write his first book of short stories, and he plans to make it about another collection — his personal trove of typewriters. Also: Jill Abramson details her startup.

This coffee drinker prepares to sprinkle some of what very well may be, in the words of one character, a "party in a packet."

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Book News: To Make This E-Book Sweeter, Just Add Product Placement

9:43am November 03, 2014

by Colin Dwyer

Makers of Sweet'N Low invested big bucks to appear in Find Me I'm Yours. But that's not the only noteworthy novel out this week: Denis Johnson, Ha Jin, Will Self and Richard Ford all have new books.

A 19th Century Novel Explains Quantitative Easing

6:36pm November 02, 2014

by John Lanchester

This week, the Federal Reserve ended the quantitative easing program. Author John Lanchester says Anthony Trollope's 19th century novel The Way We Live Now clarifies the current financial situation.

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