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Blume revisits her old Miami Beach school, Central Beach Elementary, which is now Fienberg Fisher K-8. Click here to go on a virtual tour of Blume's Miami Beach.

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Take A Walk With Judy Blume Through Her Old Miami Beach Neighborhood

8:05pm June 25, 2015

by Alicia Zuckerman

Blume says her time in Miami Beach in the late '40s was the most important time in her childhood. Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself is a slightly fictionalized autobiography of Blume's life there.

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Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words, Offers Clarity On Old Ones

5:58pm June 25, 2015

by Marie Andrusewicz

The OED unveils some modern coinage and explains a Supreme Court justice's choice of words.

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Going Through A Midlife Crisis? 'Summerlong' Is No Escape

4:24pm June 25, 2015

by Jason Sheehan

Dean Bakopoulos' darkly humorous novel Summerlong features a cast of Midwestern suburbanites suffocating from adulthood.

A group of dads from Project Fatherhood join author Jorja Leap to celebrate the publication of her book, Project Fatherhood: A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities.

'Project Fatherhood': In A Struggling Neighborhood, Dads Are Helping Dads

2:39pm June 25, 2015

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A dedicated group of fathers in Los Angeles is working to help neighborhood dads do better by their children and their community.

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'Keepers' Isn't One: A Critic's Highlight Reel Lacks Spark

1:30pm June 25, 2015

by Tomas Hachard

Longtime film writer Richard Schickel's unsatisfying collection of movie musings deems pleasure and intellectualism mutually exclusive.

'Project Fatherhood' Teaches Parenting Skills To Inner-City Dads

3:18pm June 24, 2015

Mike Cummings and Jorja Leap are working with men in Los Angeles — many of whom are former gang members — to help them find something that was missing from their lives as they grew up: fatherhood.

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The Complete Eightball, by Daniel Clowes.

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Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron, 'Eightball' Will Knock You Out

9:05am June 24, 2015

by Etelka Lehoczky

Daniel Clowes is one of the greatest artists in modern comics, and now his seminal '90s work is out in a deluxe box set — not just Ghost World but his fascinatingly autobiographical gripe sessions.

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'The Cartel' Is A True Crime Adventure With A Killer Protagonist

9:01am June 24, 2015

by Alan Cheuse

With the "pace and feel of an exploded documentary," says review Alan Cheuse, Don Winslow recounts a 10-year odyssey of revenge set in Mexico against the stark history of the drug wars.

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'Death' Uncovers The Secret History Of Mr. Pickwick

7:03am June 24, 2015

by Jean Zimmerman

Stephen Jarvis's debut novel explores the creation of Charles Dickens' classic serial, back when he was an unknown writer going by the name of "Boz," and the real star was illustrator Robert Seymour.

Cover art of The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud.

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Algerian Writer Kamel Daoud Stands Camus' 'The Stranger' On Its Head

7:19pm June 23, 2015

by John Powers

In his first novel, The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud retells The Stranger from an Arab perspective. John Powers says Daoud's retelling will forever change the way you read the Camus classic.

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