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LA Times' Best Fiction And Nonfiction Of 2009

Posted 12.04.2009 | Books

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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A Talk With Orhan Pamuk: Caressing the World With Words

Nathan Gardels | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

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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Miami Book Fair Going Strong This Week

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Tracey Kidder, Books, Margaret Atwood, Mary Karr Lit, Book Fair, Lit, Author Events, Book Fairs, Barbara Kingsolver Lacuna, Margaret Atwood Year of the Flood, Authors, Miami Book Fair, Joyce Carol Oates, Year of the Flood, Orhan Pamuk, Ruth Reichl, Author Readings, Gourmet, Sherman Alexie, Lacuna, Jonathan Lethem, Mary Karr, Reading, Miami, Isabella Rossellini, Books News

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

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

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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Headscarves Pull Turkey East and West

Barry D. Wood | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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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Have You Ever Heard of the 'Muslim Effect'?

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

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 06.26.2009 | World

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