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US authors shortlisted for top UK fiction award

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World, Apr 21, 2010 (Pal Telegraph,Agencies)- Three US authors have been shortlisted for the annual Orange Prize for Fiction, the only British literary award reserved solely for novels written by women, organisers said on Tuesday.

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Review: Jake Silverstein's prose is first-rate

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World, Apr 20, 2010 (Pal Telegraph,Agencies)-"Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction" (W.W. Norton and Co., 231 pages, $23.95), by Jake Silverstein: Memoirs are a tricky genre. Even trickier thanks to authors like James Frey, who fabricated parts of "A Million Little Piece [ … ]

Review: Prothero rebuts idea all gods are alike

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World, Apr 19, 2010 (Pal Telegraph,Agencies)-"God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World — and Why Their Differences Matter" (HarperOne, 388 pages, $26.99), by Stephen Prothero: Christianity, Islam and Judaism all insist that God is One. So prospective readers may think that Stephe [ … ]

Ex-ballplayer goes deep with 1st novel, a thriller

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World, Apr 19, 2010 (Pal Telegraph,Agencies)-"American Subversive" (Scribner, 320 pages, $25) by David Goodwillie: Members of a Christian militia called the Hutaree were arrested last month following FBI raids in several Midwestern states. The government claims the nine suspects planned a violent ac [ … ]

Mark Twain's final years

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REDDING, Conn, Apr 18, 2010 (Pal Telegraph,Agencies)- Mark Twain died here on April 21, a century ago. He was 74, and in failing health, his heart — his tobacco heart, he called it — so weak that he interrupted a restful cruise to Bermuda to return and die at the house on a hill built for him just [ … ]