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Huntingtower was a departure for John Buchan. Published between the third and fourth of his tremendous Richard Hannay novels, the book's protagonist is not a soldier-turned-spy, but instead a retired Scottish grocer who joins a quixotic effort to rescue a Russian noblewoman from Bolsheviks.

LESLIE FIEDLER extended the American frontier simply by writing about it. His critical voice resonated with intellectual heft and incessant chutzpah.

"As music tames the savage beast, coffee civilizes man unkind." Dave Fullerton came up with the line compiled from an E. E. Cummings poem and a Bugs Bunny misquote from a William Congreve play.

Indian writer Pankaj Mishra is one of eight writers from seven countries winning a $150,000 Yale University prize each in recognition of their achievements and to support their ongoing work.

A festival to promote reading, engage new library users and encourage people to explore and celebrate their city will launch next month.

Simone Manceau, born of a Tunisian mother and an Italian father, is herself French, and translates Indian writing in English into French.

"I am thankful to the organizers of this event, Etisalat Nigeria for this most excellent and necessary prize.

Superintendent Mick Zais says priorities for his remaining year in office include advocating for greater flexibility in the high school curriculum, with a focus on critical writing, statistics and personal finance, he said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

BEIRUT: One of the most endearing qualities about Aaliya, the 72-year-old narrator of Rabih Alameddine's latest novel, is her dry sense of humor.

A woman passes by a graffiti that reads "The Russians are coming - Resistance" in Simferopol, Ukraine, Friday.

Whether it was a picture book lovingly read to us by parents or the first books we read ourselves that expanded our minds into other times, places and lives , the beloved books of our childhood can have memorable and lasting impact.

In 1967, the French critic Roland Barthes published his now-famous essay The Death of the Author , calling for literary criticism freed from considerations of the author's biography and intentions.

Bestselling and world renown author James Patterson is on a mission to save bookstores.

We've already covered the major connections between books and music-but that list is not limited to the world of rock.

G.E. Gallas is a multimedia creator who is currently raising funds to make her short film Death Is No Bad Friend , about Robert Louis Stevenson.

By turns daffy and dazzling, awkward and artful, "Journey to the West" takes an ancient tale and gives it contemporary flair.

After a short preamble, Brown took to the center of the room and, after an equally short introduction, started reading her story "Stillborn" from her collection "Little Sinners, and Other Stories," which won Binghamton University's 2013 John Gardner Fiction Book Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize.

Periodically this year, we'll share ways using the library makes your life better, err, awesome! Here are three quick hits for readers: 1. Whether it's Hollywood gossip or classic literature that you just gotta have, start at tscpl.org/downloads .

In a world that plunks authors into brushed-aside categories like science fiction, fantasy and romance, one author is tiring of the "guilty pleasure" label.

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