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Amazon’s Kindle Store Gets 2-Year Exclusive for 20 Modern Classic Titles

Amazon.com, Inc. announced that The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature’s most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store

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Recap of some events from the first week

Well, the first week or so of the London Literature has most definitely been something…special.

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Spending a day in the City of Literature

Karen Martoglio said she didn’t really discover reading until her late 20s.

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Spending a day in the City of Literature

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Food in literature is theme of Key West seminar

The 2011 Key West Literary Seminar — which runs Jan. 6-16 — has announced its schedule for panelists, who will explore for the first time the theme of food in literature.

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Jose Saramago, first Portuguese Nobel Literature laureate, reported dead at 87

LISBON, Portugal - Jose Saramago, who became the first Portuguese-language winner of the Nobel Literature prize after seeing his popularity at home dampened by his unflinching support for Communism, blunt manner and sometimes difficult prose style, has died at 87, his publisher said Friday.

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Flannery O’Connor Home Chosen As Site For National Book Awards Finalists Announcement

The 20 Finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature for the 2010 National Book Awards will be announced for the first time at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia on October 13, 2010.

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£30,000 shortfall threatens Kids’ Lit Quiz

IT IS promoted as an international literature competition, designed to make reading fun for children and encourage them to study great literary works. Yet the first Scottish

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£30,000 shortfall threatens Kids’ Lit Quiz

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Seppi beats Berrer in first round of Open de Nice

Andreas Seppi of Italy beat seventh-seeded Michael Berrer of Germany 6-3, 7-5 in the first round of the Open de Nice on Sunday. Andreas Seppi - Literature - Arts - Beat - Michael Berrer

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Global and local fMRI signals driven by neurons defined optogenetically by type and wiring

Despite a rapidly-growing scientific and clinical brain imaging literature based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals, it remains controversial whether BOLD signals in a particular region can be caused by activation of local excitatory neurons. This difficult question is central to the interpretation and utility of BOLD, with …

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Indians mark Nobel laureate poet Tagore’s 150th birthday (4)

&$ &$ Indian people give tribute to a statue of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore during a celebration on his 150th birthday anniversary in Kolkata, capital of eastern Indian state West Bengal, on May 9, 2010. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

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