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Not long before he died, John Updike spoke eloquently of a book's "edges, " the boundaries that give shape and integrity to a literary work and that for centuries have found their outward expression in the indelibility of printed pages.
WSJ: Nicholas Carr on E-Books
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It is a serious literary work set in a small town in the southern Indian state of Kerala, and is written in a highly individualistic style.
CNN: The New Masters
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Candidates will also have to produce a range of literary work, such as a short story or play or poem.
BBC: Creative writing to be offered at A-level
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This was obviously a case for a committee of literary detectives or for a study of the criminal mind at work on fiction.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'
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Arnold Rampersad. (Applause.) The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Arnold Rampersad for his work as a biographer and literary critic.
WHITEHOUSE: The 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Ceremony | The White House
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His literary team also worries that introducing a new work too soon after his latest crime thriller's release could distract readers from the marketing campaign around his existing books.
CNN: An author's legacy beyond his words
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He did produce an acute monograph on the early technical work of Bertrand Russell, but this languished in obscurity: it appeared in a minor literary series for which it was commissioned, in apparent ignorance of the real nature of Russell's work, after Russell won the Nobel prize for literature.
ECONOMIST: Obituary in brief
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She described her work as "the literary equivalent of a hyperactive, ginger-haired tap-dancing 10-year-old".
BBC: Whitbread winners square up
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Scripts for comics are arguably a literary form in exactly the same way that film and theater scripts are literary forms, but a script is not the same thing as the finished work of art.
NPR: More Recommendations
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Altogether, the uses of Hoggart are considerable and his work continues to inform our understanding of a variety of historical and contemporary lived cultures, literary forms and institutional practices.
UNESCO: The Uses of Richard Hoggart