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The Lakewood Playhouse has announced its 76th season of shows! It's a season filled with laughter, mystery, literature, and stories that touch the heart.

Judy Mappin, left, with HA©lA ne Holden, one of the three original partners who started the bookstore, at a Mappin tribute at Montreal's Centaur Theatre, 24 Oct 2005.

American writer George Saunders won the 40,000 pound Folio Prize for literature on Monday with his humorous and disturbing short-story collection "Tenth of December."

George Saunders holds up a trophy after winning the Folio Prize at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Monday, March 10, 2014.

American writer George Saunders won the 40,000 pound Folio Prize for literature on Monday with his humorous and disturbing short-story collection "Tenth of December."

Donna Tartt, Eleanor Catton, and Margaret Atwood are among those nominated for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction .

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The Luminaries author and Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton has more plaudits in sight after being longlisted for the international Women's Prize for Fiction.

With claims from authors that the opening lines in novels must now "grab readers by the throat" to prevent them becoming distracted or bored, The Telegraph offers thier selection of the best first lines in literature Daily book trade headlines and breaking publishing news by email - just 3 a month.

The China-born Li is a UC Davis professor. At noon Wednesday, she will read from "Solitude" in a joint presentation with fellow UC Davis faculty member Lucy Corin at The Lounge in the Memorial Union Store on the UCD campus.

There's been an ongoing debating in the philosophical literature on morality for some time.

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.