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Fans and booksellers eager for new JK Rowling book

LONDON—Recession-hit booksellers are hoping for a magical boost from a new book by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," a collection of five fables mentioned in Rowling's saga about the boy wizard, is being published around ...

From JILL LAWLESS, Boston Globe,  3 Dec 2008

Icelanders rally to protest economic meltdown

REYKJAVIK, Iceland—Hundreds of Icelanders stormed the country's central bank Monday demanding the sacking of the governor they blame for the country's economic collapse. The demonstrators banged on the glass doors of the central Reykjavik building ...

From JILL LAWLESS, Boston Globe,  1 Dec 2008

Icelanders rally to protest economic meltdown

REYKJAVIK, Iceland—Hundreds of Icelanders stormed the country's central bank Monday demanding the sacking of the governor they blame for the country's economic collapse. The demonstrators banged on the glass doors of the central Reykjavik building ...

From JILL LAWLESS, Boston Globe,  1 Dec 2008

Updike wins lifetime award for bad sex writing

Updike, 76, who has a long history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award Tuesday from judges of Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize, which celebrates crude, tasteless or ridiculous sexual passages in modern literature. ...

From JILL LAWLESS, San Francisco Chronicle,  27 Nov 2008

Britain asks how system did not stop rapist father

A man who fathered nine children with his two daughters had attracted official suspicion but avoided detection for decades by moving his family frequently and intimidating his victims into silence, British prosecutors say. Authorities were ...

From JILL LAWLESS, eTaiwan News,  26 Nov 2008

Brits ask how system failed to stop rapist father

LONDON—A man who fathered nine children with his two daughters had attracted official suspicion but avoided detection for decades by moving his family frequently and intimidating his victims into silence, British prosecutors say. Authorities were ...

From JILL LAWLESS, Boston Globe,  26 Nov 2008

How was incest rape overlooked? Britons ask

LONDON A man who fathered nine children with his two daughters had attracted official suspicion but avoided detection for decades by moving his family frequently and intimidating his victims into silence, British prosecutors said Wednesday. ...

From JILL LAWLESS, Globe and Mail,  26 Nov 2008

John Updike wins lifetime award for bad sex

LONDON It's not quite the Nobel Prize but John Updike has a new literary accolade – laureate of bad sex. Updike, who has a long and graphic history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award Tuesday from judges of Britain's ...

From JILL LAWLESS, Globe and Mail,  26 Nov 2008

John Updike wins special Bad Sex in fiction prize

LONDON (AP) -- It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, who has a long and graphic history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award Tuesday from judges of ...

From JILL LAWLESS, Buffalo News,  25 Nov 2008

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