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Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Publishing Industry, Salman Rushdie, Kenzaburo Oe, Best Books, Orhan Pamuk, J. M. Coetzee, Poetry, Fiction, Slidepollajax, Islam, Postmodern Fiction, Creative Writing, Jonathan Franzen, India, Book Publishing, Paul Muldoon, Books News

Most of the big names who did come out with novels fell flat on their faces, producing ponderous, bloated, eminently editable books (Julie Orringer, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley).

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On Offer At Frankfurt Book Fair

thebookseller.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frankfurt Book Fair, David Bowie, Book Fair, Orhan Pamuk, Frankfurt Book, Agent Aylie, Eoin Colfer, Martin Amis, Books News

Agents are heading off to this year's book fair with a host of titles from the likes of Martin Amis, Eoin Colfer and David Bowie. In the second of The...

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Publisher Pays $2.5 Million Advance...

deadline.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The deals are popping this week, and publishing is not immune. On the basis of a 4-page proposal, Alfred Knopf's Sonny Mehta has paid $2.5 million for...

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Anis Shivani: The Most Anticipated Books For The Rest Of 2010

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Fall Books Preview, Sam Miller, Fiction, Globalization, Manu Joseph, Poetry, Gary Shteyngart, V. S. Naipaul, Orhan Pamuk, Jonathan Franzen, Chris Hedges, Financial Crisis, Salman Rushdie, Jose Saramago, Slidepollajax, New Books, Books News

From important new fiction by Jonathan Franzen and Yiyun Li to penetrating critiques of the current political situation by Matt Taibbi and Chris Hedges, there is a lot to look forward to from publishers at all levels for the rest of the summer and the fall.

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Translators Deserve Credit Too: Who Really Wrote The Kundera You Love?

The Guardian | Tim Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milan Kundera, Orhan Pamuk, Translators, Writing, Authors, Tim Parks, Books, Translation, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

Who wrote the Milan Kundera you love? Answer: Michael Henry Heim. And what about the Orhan Pamuk you think is so smart? Maureen Freely. Or the imagina...

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The Arab Jewish Tradition and the Past and Future Promise of Peace

David Shasha | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Levantine, Bernard Lewis, Sephardic, Zionism, Religion, Orhan Pamuk, Arab, Arabs, Jew, Likud, Israel, Isrealis, Ashkanazi, Religion News

It is standard practice to see Jews and Arabs as embattled enemies rather than try to recall a time when the Jews of the Middle East were integrated into the Arab culture and civilization.

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The Best Books of the Decade

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Snow, My Name Is Red, The Museum of Innocence, White Teeth, Aleksander Hemon, Orhan Pamuk, Civil Liberties, Dystopian Fiction, Modernization, Margaret Atwood, William Boyd, Multiculturalism, Philip Roth, Oryx and Crake, Netherland, Immigrants, Zadie Smith, Joseph O'Neill, Poetry, Fundamentalism, Terrorism, The Plot Against America, Iraq War, Post-9/11 America, Bush Administration, Racism, Islam, Books News

Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."

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Headscarves Pull Turkey East and West

Barry D. Wood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Union, European Attitude to Head Scarf, Turkey Head Scarves, Women's Rights, Religion in Europe, Orhan Pamuk, Headscarf, Head Scarf, Religion in Turkey, Secularism in Turkey, Sarkozy Head Scarf, Obama Head Scarf, World News

The complexities of the headscarf debate eludes many Americans, for whom freedom, tolerance, and diversity are axioms of our democracy. We would ask, why is the headscarf such a big deal?

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First Day Of Winter: Great Books To Give And To Curl Up With On Winter Solstice (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Winter Solstice, the first day of winter, the shortest day of the year. Looking for a good book to curl up with, or perhaps some great last-minute Chr...

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Miami Book Fair Going Strong This Week

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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All this week, Miami is celebrating the world of literature with its annual Book Fair. Running from November 8 - 15 and open to the public for a small...

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LA Times' Best Fiction And Nonfiction Of 2009

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Bright and Guilty Place, Zadie Smith, The Angel's Game, The Book of Genesis Illustrated, Orhan Pamuk, The Anthologist, LA Times Best Books, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, Books, Cheever, Best Books, Bestsellers, Best Books of 2009, Books News

The Los Angeles Times has joined the ever-growing crowd with its own "Best of 2009" lists -- separate for fiction and non-fiction, 25 books each. The ...

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Orhan Pamuk and his Museum: This Is Your Brain on Novels

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk Interview, Dostoevsky, Authors, Author Interviews, Snow, Books, Anna Karenina, Books News

Orhan Pamuk's new novel, "The Museum of Innocence", is about the collectible evidence - the earrings, the cigarette stubs, the views out the bedroom window - of a blissful love affair going bad.

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Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Secrets

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Rice, John Wray, Writers, Junot Diaz, Books, Writing, Writing Strategies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Writing Techniques, Nicholson Baker, Edwidge Danticat, Colum McCann, Laura Lippman, Authors, Kate Christensen, Richard Powers, Writer's Block, Orhan Pamuk, Writing Tips, Dan Chaon, Russell Banks, Hilary Mantel, Writing Secrets, Amitav Gosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

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A Talk With Orhan Pamuk: Caressing the World With Words

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk, New Orhan Pamuk Book, Books News

Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. He sat down with me last week to discuss his new novel Museum of Innocence as well as the current political situation in Turkey.

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Have You Ever Heard of the 'Muslim Effect'?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shirin Ebadi, Islamophobia, Islam, Orhan Pamuk, Orhan-Pamuk, Moderates, Samuel-Huntington, Muslims, Muslim, Muhammad Yunus, Clash of Civilizations, Osama Bin Laden, Mohammed Yunus, Foreign Policy, Iran, World News

An American list of the top 100 intellectuals was dominated by Muslims in the top 10; the only other American list dominated by Muslims is the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list.

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Nedim Gursel: Turkish Author Tried For Insulting Islam

AP | IBRAHIM USTA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Religion, Islam, Freedom of Speech, Nedim Gursel, Insulting Islam, Orhan Pamuk, The Daughters of Allah, Daughters of Allah, World News

ISTANBUL — A Turkish author on trial over accusations that his latest book insulted Islam denied the charges Tuesday and insisted he was respect...

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