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Much of the response was angry, too. Some towns banned it, some towns burned it.

Some of the most memorable characters in classic American literature suffer from severe mental illness - Benjy Compson, Edna Pontellier, Holden Caulfield and Lennie Small.

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Ukip leader Nigel Farage has shrugged off questions over whether a woman featured in the party's campaign literature should have been identified as one of his aides.

Could the next great novel be simply a collection of tweets and status updates? For most, the idea may seem preposterous.

Fans and family paid their last respects to much-loved Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Monday, leaving flowers and playing music in a colorful remembrance of the Nobel laureate and giant of Latin American literature.

Boys are being put off reading because of the influence women have on children's literature, says an award-winning children's author.

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Professor Cyrus Ernesto Ziarkzadeh discussed his new novel, "A Political Companion to John Steinbeck," at the Co-op at Storrs Center.

The Canadian literary world is remembering Alistair MacLeod as not only a great writer but also an amiable person and gifted academic who inspired generations of students and scribes.

Gabriel Jos de la Concordia Garca Mrquez, Colombian novelist , short-tory writer, screenwriter and journalist , known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America , has died at the age of 87. Locals in Columbia are holding a ceremony in his birth place of Aracataca, the setting for his seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

As announced last week, Incubator Arts Project is closing its doors. Before the organization leaves St. Mark 's, the group is presenting WSB 100 by William S Burroughs as part of its final lineup of artists.

It's a story about the first female hero in literature, and the students at McDowell Intermediate School are bringing it to the stage.

Ronee Sue Blakley, a musician and actress once nominated for an Academy Award, says she was defamed in "What Maisie Knew" by the father of her child.

He was a simple man who liked simple things: classical music, classic literature, and beautiful flowers.

"Just as reading great novels can transport you to another time and place, meals good and bad ones alike can conjure scenes very far away from the table," writes graphic designer Dinah Fried in the introduction to her new book, Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals .

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.

Spring has sprung. And what better way to celebrate than by curling up with a good book? It's great mental exercise.

In the mid-1980s as a young undergraduate student of Latin American politics, to me Gabriel Garcia Marquez was as much a political historian as he was a writer of fantastical novels.

In his most famous novel, 1984, George Orwell wrote, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."