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Dublin -
Binge-drinking during the Victoria Day weekend in Canada is nothing new. Irish author Catherine Barry knows all about heavy drinking. The reformed alcoholic documents the horrors of rehab and recovery in her 2011 book, Charlie And Me (New Island).
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Danbury -
The man behind the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are"died this morning from complications of a stroke last Friday in Danbury, Connecticut. Maurice Sendak was 83.
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Houston -
It was one of those idyllic mornings where the normally effervescent fountains belied their calm. One could not help but notice their doubling of Akash Kapur—his Zen as he greeted the crowd of anxious students at the University of Houston on Wednesday.
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New York -
Author Susie Moloney is a renowned author of horror fiction. Small-town Canadiana infuses every inch of her work, which has garnered praise from critics and the notice of major Hollywood players.
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Toronto -
The Czech dissident poet and author Josef Škvorecký has died in Canada aged 87. Škvorecký had resided in Canada since fleeing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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A prize-winning Spanish writer, Lucía Etxebarría, has told Spanish media that she is giving up her writing career as she feels that illegal downloads of her books have caused a major problem not just to her but to writers across the world.
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New York -
Naomi Wolf, author of the groundbreaking feminist tome, The Beauty Myth, was arrested while protesting for Occupy Wall Street
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In the second of two excerpts published on Digital Journal, author Jeff Jarvis explains how sharing our data shatters "the myth of perfection" and may actually help us in the long run, as explained in his book Public Parts.
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Having three books previously shortlisted in the Booker Prize competition, British author Julian Barnes finally receives the win of a lifetime.
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Rodney Legg, British writer, historian, campaigner and former chairman of the Open Spaces Society has died of cancer at the age of 64.
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Author Jeanette Winterson is to become a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
Czech author Josef Skvorecky, who published hundreds of works banned by the communist authorities, has died aged 87.
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