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Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez crafted intoxicating fiction from the fatalism, fantasy, cruelty and heroics of the world that set his mind churning as a child growing up on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
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Appreciation: Gabriel Garcia Marquez was more than magical realism
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a charmer.
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'Summer Sins' author Kathy Kulig and her husband talk about work, marriage and date night
Kathy Kulig was out of town for a business trip when she texted her husband, Joe.
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'Hyde' by Daniel Levine, a nightmare in the making
"Hyde" by Daniel Levine; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($24)
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Richard Halliburton's 'The Royal Road to Romance' was the perfect book for a kid with wanderlust
The book was called "The Royal Road to Romance," and to a pre-adolescent boy with a fear of anything girlish, it sounded an awful lot like a bodice-ripper. Even if it wasn't a steamy love story, it certainly didn't seem like the kind of book any self-respecting apprentice to the world of manhood...
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Reading James Baldwin's 'Giovanni's Room,' I realized what I wanted to do: I wanted to make a stranger feel what I felt just by the words I chose
In 1975, when I was young, I went to hear James Baldwin speak. Afterward, I waited in a long line and finally got to stand before him. I told him that his book "Giovanni's Room" had made me want to be a writer. He looked me up and down and asked, "Do your parents know?" I was earnest and sincere...
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'Blood Always Tells' oozes double crosses and plot twists
"Blood Always Tells" by Hilary Davidson; Forge ($25.99)
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'Bone Clocks,' more ticking
British writer David Mitchell's next novel will be "The Bone Clocks," to be released on Sept. 9, according to Random House. The publisher's announcement included new details about "The Bone Clocks" as well as news of a three-book deal with Mitchell, a two-time Booker Prize finalist.
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A soldier returns from Iraq and finds herself an outsider in Cara Hoffman's 'Be Safe I Love You'
"Be Safe I Love You" by Cara Hoffman; Simon & Schuster ($26)
