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Poetry Best Sellers Of 2009

Travis Nichols | Posted 12.15.2009 | Books

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Every week, the Poetry Foundation compiles information from Nielsen Bookscan and puts together lists of the best selling books of poetry. Here are 2009's best selling books of contemporary poetry:

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eReaders Through The Eyes Of Thriller Writers

The New York Times | PETER WAYNER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

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What do authors think of the new electronic replacements for bound paper? Some are traditionalists who want nothing to do with electronic readers -- o...

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John Updike's Archive Acquired By Harvard

The Boston Globe | Tracy Jan | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books

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Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of John Updike, a celebrated member of the Class of 1954 who kept a...

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John Updike Bio By New York Observer Editor Bought By HarperCollins

The New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media

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Adam Begley, The Observer's longtime book review editor, has signed on with HarperCollins to write a biography of John Updike, who died last month of ...

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J.U. and I

Erica Jong | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media

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John Updike was one of the few writers of our age who didn't see writing as an aggressive act that needed to be met with another aggressive act: criticism.

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John Updike's Editor Remembers Legendary Author

New Yorker | Roger Angell | Posted 03.05.2009 | Media

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Colleagues for more than half a century, writer-editor partners for more than half that time, John Updike and I were close at a fixed distance--he at ...

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This Week in Magazines: Fear and Shopping

James Warren | Posted 03.04.2009 | Media

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Magazines are awash with our fear- and debt-ridden mess, with lots of profiles of key players -- and then there's ShopSmart, a wonderful potpourri of smart consumerism.

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John Updike, Hall of Famer

David Margolick | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

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Up until the age of 76, Updike never stopped working, turning out a vast body of words. But nothing can top the astonishing piece he wrote on Ted Williams' final game.

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John Updike: Ted Williams of Our Prose

Christopher Lydon | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media

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Updike had a good priest's devotion to his writing vocation. And for all the sex, laughter and inspired mischief we gratefully associate with him, he had also an air almost of sanctity.

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Saying Goodbye to John Updike

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media

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I think I was simply seduced by his writing. I felt I knew him, and in an odd way, that he knew me.

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The Daily Szep - Caricature of John Updike

Paul Szep | Posted 02.28.2009 | Entertainment

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John Updike Dies At 76

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures...

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John Updike Wins Bad Sex Prize

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media

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LONDON — It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, who has a long and graphic h...

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Bad Sex Award Shortlist Announced: John Updike Noted

Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 12.21.2008 | Entertainment

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Alastair Campbell's depiction of a gauche sexual encounter in his debut novel All in the Mind has won him a place on the shortlist for the literary wo...

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