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APP OF THE DAY: BT FON (iPhone) - Pocket-lint.com

2010-09-06
Pocket-lint.comAPP OF THE DAY: BT FON (iPhone)Pocket-lint.comIf the American author was still alive today, he'd no doubt consider his original statement and modify it to include a third - that Pocket-lint will bring ...and more »

Alice Walker to deliver Steve Biko lecture - Mail & Guardian Online

2010-09-06
Alice Walker to deliver Steve Biko lectureMail & Guardian OnlineAfrican-American author Alice Walker, perhaps best known for her book The Color Purple, will visit South Africa for the first time in September this year to ...

What's your excuse for skipping breakfast today? - Daily News & Analysis

2010-09-05
What's your excuse for skipping breakfast today?Daily News & AnalysisAdelle Davis, American author and a pioneer in the field of nutrition, said, 'Eat breakfast like a king, ...and more »

Book Report: Ape House - Mountain Xpress

2010-09-03
Book Report: Ape HouseMountain XpressCanadian/American author Sara Gruen's first novel, Riding Lessons was a best seller and her second, Flying Changes, ...and more »

'My Ishmael': The Book That Inspired the Alleged Discovery Channel Gunman? - AOL News

2010-09-01
'My Ishmael': The Book That Inspired the Alleged Discovery Channel Gunman?AOL News1) -- "My Ishmael," a 1997 novel by American author and environmentalist Daniel Quinn, gets top billing in the manifesto of Discovery TV gunman James Jae ...and more »

A Writerly Resemblance? Perhaps

2010-09-06
East Aurorans who know Patrick Blizniak only as the superintendent for buildings for the town and village, or as a former millwright for a local lumber company, or as the father of six and husband of Colleen, might rightly suspect that there’s more to him than meets the eye. In fact, when taking a closer look, one might note a strong resemblance to a certain iconic American author—strong enough ...

Alice Walker to deliver Steve Biko lecture

2010-09-06
Author Alice Walker will visit South Africa for the first time in September this year to deliver the 11th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture.

Chef escapes from the Maze

2010-09-06
Melbourne-based chef cuts ties with the Gordon Ramsay juggernaut.

Dan Brown Tops Oxfam's 'Least Wanted' Chart

2010-09-03
What's Your Reaction? The bestselling American author, whose latest cryptographic thriller The Lost Symbol -- filled with such gems as "Is there life after death? Do humans have souls?

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, By Yiyun Li

2010-09-04
The title story in Yiyun Li's Gold Boy, Emerald Girl is not its centrepiece. Instead, "Gold Boy, Emerald Girl" comes last in a collection of nine stories, and, while one of the book's most effective, is also one of its shortest. That seems apt, given that this book – the third from its 38-year-old Chinese-American author – is host to a fiction that elevates reticence, a kind of unshowy plainness ...