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What Is a Literary Novel?

Warren Adler | Posted 05.29.2012

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Does durability, for example, constitute an important definition of what is or becomes a literary novel? How does a novel become a classic? Who determines what becomes a classic?

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What Do Women Want: The Cinematic Wasteland of Female Fantasy (Part One)

Erika Christakis | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Twilight, To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary, To Kill a Mockingbird, American Film, Culture News

Men get a bye when it comes to their fantasy life -- no matter how disturbing or buffoonish- - but women are expected to be the grown-ups, even though it's not much fun being the designated driver.

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'To Kill A Mockingbird' Star Mary Badham On Being Scout, Gregory Peck And Losing The Academy Award

The Huffington Post | Sharon Knolle | Posted 03.31.2012

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Fifty years ago, 10-year-old Mary Badham tried out for a role in a little movie filming near her hometown of Birmingham, Ala.: "To Kill a Mockingbird....

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YA Authors Share Their Fave Books As Teens

| Lauren | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Scholastic, Ya Fiction, Zora Neale Hurston, Barbara Michaels, Harper Lee, Teen-Read-Week, Cecil Castellucci, Kim Harrington, Elizabeth Eulberg, Coe Booth, To Kill a Mockingbird, High School News

To help celebrate Teen Read Week, our friends at Scholastic talked to famous authors to find out what books they loved when they were teenagers. Have ...

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YA Authors Share Their Fave Books As Teens

oomscholasticblog.com | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Teen Read Week, Harper Lee, Scholastic, Fiction, Susan Cooper, Maggie-Stiefvater, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jeff Hirsch, Young Adult Fiction, High School News

Coe Booth, author of Tyrell and Bronxwood (September 2011), chose Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. "I read this book so many times ...

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Finding the Souls of Politicians Through the Books They Read

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: A Gift Upon the Shore, A Lesson Before Dying, Walter Mosley, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Books, The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, Caleb?S Crossing, Ernest J. Gaines, Hannah Coulter, A Christmas Carol, Charles DickensThe Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, E.M. Forster, Poltician, Man in the Dark, Wendell Berry, Paul Auster, Geraldine Brooks, Nadine Gordimer, Howards End, Burger?S Daughter, Rick Perry, Indignation Philip Roth, Reading, W.K. Wren, Books News

he question of whether a politician reads at all is a good one, and should be asked and answered more often. But the question of which books a politician has loved throughout his or her lifetime must be asked and answered.

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Five Books That Blew Our Minds, 1955-1975

Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Noam Chomsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo?S Nest, Lolita, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Books, Fifty News

At first glance, these books have very little in common -- a racially-charged tome and one of the most praised linguistic publications in history, a "...

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Sexpert Susie Bright: The Novel I Read a Million Jillion Times

Susie Bright | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Classic Novels, Paul Zindel, Dashiell Hammett, Charles Portis, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lost in Translation, True Grit, Coen Brothers, Favorite Books, Eloise, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Judy Blume, Harriet the Spy, Law and Order, The Big Lebowski, Books We Love, Books News

How did reading get to be such a faster-pussycat-hurry-up activity? We listen to favorite songs over and over without apology or distraction. They make us feel good, no explanation necessary. But with books, there's this myth that it takes a "long time".

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10 Black & White Movies for People Who Won't Watch Black & White Movies

John Farr | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Fred MacMurray, ?the Best Years of Our Lives?, The Grapes of Wrath, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, All About Eve, Fredric March, The Apartment, Best Movies by Farr, Rod Steiger, Citizen Kane, Walter Huston, Robert Duvall, Pulitzer Prize, Marilyn Monroe, Black and White, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Lemmon, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, American Film Institute, Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Movie Recommendations, Orson Welles, Movie Suggestions, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies, Casablanca, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, John Huston, Schindler's List, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, William Wyler, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Myrna Loy, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bette Davis, Culture News

If I could get all those black and white haters out there to watch just ten titles -- movies that constituted absolutely essential viewing -- which would they be?

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Young Adult Fiction: Let Teens Choose

Chris Crutcher | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: MEGHAN COX GURDON, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chris Crutcher, Young Adult Fiction, Fiction, Books News

Let's just say at the outset that, in my opinion, Meghan Cox Gurdon has an agenda. And to be fair let's also say that, in my opinion, so do I.

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The Beckhams Spark Book Sales, Invite Justin Bieber for Private Show

Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Victoria Beckham, Victoria Beckham Baby, Books, Beckhams, David Beckham, To Kill a Mockingbird, Celebrity Kids, Harper Seven Beckham, Justin Bieber, Celebrity News

Although she's not even two weeks old, looks like little Harper Seven Beckham takes after her mommy. Not only is she "daddy's little girl," but in tru...

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What Happens When A Bro Writes Poetry?

Brian McGackin | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Writing Poetry, Broetry, To Kill a Mockingbird, Writing, Poetry, Best American Poetry 2010, Books News

Why are so many guys afraid of poetry? Is it because they don't think they'll get it? Is it too mushy and emotional and girly for their manliness to handle? Screw that.

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Feminine Tosh

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Beloved, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tosh, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Alias Grace. Toni Morrison, Great American Novel, Middlemarch, Feminine Tosh, George Eliot, Women and the Great American Novel, Printer's Row Book Festival, Women News

At Printer's Row Book Festival in Chicago last weekend, a big topic of conversation was a remark by a prominent male writer that no woman writer was his equal. He used the term "feminine tosh."Tosh" swiftly became the buzz word of the weekend.

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Literary Characters Who Should Be Tweeting

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Moby Dick, On the Road, Literary Characters, Twitter, Jack Kerouac, A Confederacy of Dunces, Kafka, The Metamorphosis, Faulkner, Lolita, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sound and the Fury, Books News

As any true Joyce fan knows, Bloomsday is fast approaching, and this year, thanks to Twitter, there will be a new way to celebrate. One dedicated fan ...

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HuffPost Review: Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: In Cold Blood, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, Scott Turow, Oprah Winfrey, Mary Badham, Tom Brokaw, Mary Murphy, Anna Quindlen, Truman Capote, Atticus Finch, Gregory Peck, Civil-Rights Movement, Hey Boo: Harper Lee and to Kill a Mockingbird, Hey Boo: Harper Lee and to Kill a Mockingbird Movie Review, Entertainment News

Hey, Boo celebrates a novel, an imagination and, ultimately, a defining piece of Americana. It's always nice to see a movie that values literature and literacy -- and this is one of the better ones.

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Why Harper Lee Never Wrote Another Book

latimes.com | Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Authors, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Mary Mcdonagh Murphy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hey Boo, Books News

Many books and films have partisans who insist their works are loved and admired by the American people, but "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the real thing...

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Confusion Over Harper Lee Book Continues

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 06.29.2011

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The author of a forthcoming book about the ever-private Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” insisted on Friday that she had the coopera...

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Harper Lee Denies Cooperating With New Book

Harper Lee | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Harper Lee's Sister, Harper Lee Book, Chicago Tribune Reporters, The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Marja Mills, Harper Lee Biography, Books News

People are inevitably curious about Harper Lee. The author of the much-loved novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" has kept to herself since the book's public...

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New Harper Lee Biography To Include Unique Perspective

AP | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: New Harper Lee Biography, The Mockingbird Next Door, Chicago Tribune, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Marja Mills, Harper Lee Biography, Books News

NEW YORK -- A new book about "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee will include a unique perspective: Harper Lee's. "The Mockingbird Next Door," ...

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Most Frequently Reread Library Books (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ala, Slidepollajax, Most Reread Books, Winnie the Pooh, Christmas Carol, Little House on the Prairie, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, American Library Association, Library Books, Bestsellers, Reviews, Books News

We asked HuffPost Readers to tell us which books they reread the most. But we also wondered which library books people most frequently reread. It wasn...

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Favorite Rereads: What Do You Come Back To Time And Time Again? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, 1984, Ernest Hemingway, Books We Love, George Orwell, Homer, Ray Bradbury, Gone With the Wind, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Middlesex, Harry Potter, Slidepollajax, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rereads, Jeffrey Eugenides, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

Author François Mauriac once said, "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird Reminds Us That Compassion Holds The Key To Change

Matt Litton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Change, Change We Can Believe In, Harper Lee, Christianity, Christians, Racism, Justice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Compassion, Religion News

To Kill a Mockingbird forces us to look beneath the surface of our well-intentioned rhetoric ... It affirms that it is not propaganda, religious dogma, or political power that is the catalyst for change -- it is compassion.

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Blackberries Off: Ten Essential Movies For Easily Distracted Twenty-Somethings

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, George C. Scott, Digital Media, Francois Truffaut, Bicycle Thieves, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, Eva Marie Saint, All About Eve, Rashomon, Thanksgiving, The 400 Blows, Best Movies by Farr, Akira Kurosawa, Rod Steiger, Brian Dennehy, Robert Duvall, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, George Sanders, Theatre, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Mulligan, Preston Sturges, Matt Richtel, The New York Times, Veronica Lake, Best Movies on DVD, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Vittorio De Sica, Sidney Lumet, Joel Mcrea, 12 Angry Men, Digital Age, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bette Davis, Entertainment News

What if we only had a month in which to force our young adult offspring to see ten essential movies before they succumbed entirely to short-form digital content? My own personal picks.

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Holocaust Deniers, Pedophiles And Terrorists As Authors

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banned Book Week, Holocaust, Banned Books, Poll, Books, Banned Book Week 2010, Osama Bin Laden, American Librarian Association, British Banned Books, Holocaust Deniers, Censored Books, The Independent, Twilight, Dangerous Books, To Kill a Mockingbird, Censorship, Bad Books, Books News

Last week in The Independent, journalist Boyd Tonkin took a peculiar twist on the notion of "banned books," composing a list of dangerous texts that m...

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Banned Books Week 2010

American Library Association | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Surprising Banned Books, American Library Association, Banned Book Week, Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, Banned Books, Censored Books, Censored, Roald Dahl, Precious, Willy Wonka, Clockwork Orange, Brokeback Mountain, Slidepollajax, Twilight, Shining, To Kill a Mockingbird, Books News

15 of the most iconic, popular, and/or celebrated movies of all time -- all of which are based on books that have been banned, formally challenged, or burned.

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