Read more literature stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2951/literature.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:43:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72461/broke-aussie-author-inspires-bidding-frenzy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe publishing world is in a frenzy over a debut novel whose Australian author is drawing comparisons to JK Rowling ( Harry Potter ? Perhaps you've heard of it.). “ Beautiful Malice was one of the most extraordinary manuscripts I’ve read in a very long while,” one editor with an...http://www.newser.com/story/72461/broke-aussie-author-inspires-bidding-frenzy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 24 Oct 2009 7:47:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71240/german-novelist-herta-mueller-wins-nobel-for-literature.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Nobel Prize in literature was awarded today to Herta Mueller, a Romanian-born German novelist and poet whose work has explored the brutality of life under the Ceausescu dictatorship. Deprived of her job and threatened by the regime, she fled to Germany in 1987. The Land of Green Plums , published...http://www.newser.com/story/71240/german-novelist-herta-mueller-wins-nobel-for-literature.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 6:43:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70933/angelou-alive-well-despite-reports.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagContrary to reports by TMZ and scores of Tweets and re-Tweets, Maya Angelou is alive and well. The gossip site reported over the weekend that the poet missed a Los Angeles awards show because she had been hospitalized. In fact, she hadn't been invited to the presentation. The mix-up exhibited...http://www.newser.com/story/70933/angelou-alive-well-despite-reports.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 05 Oct 2009 1:24:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70402/letters-reveal-byrons-feud-with-turdsworth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA collection of letters written by Lord Byron to a clergyman, some of them unpublished, sheds new light on the Romantic poet—who discloses his sexual escapades with servants and angry opinions of fellow writers. Several letters refer to a serving girl whom he took as his mistress; he dumped...http://www.newser.com/story/70402/letters-reveal-byrons-feud-with-turdsworth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 8:40:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70261/most-hypocritical-book-bannings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBanning a book is a move laden with ironies that can make the banner seem dull-witted in the long run. For National Banned Books Week, 11Points.com lists "the most hypocritical, ignorant, and, based on the content of the books, ironic" bans: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury: The sci-fi classic is...http://www.newser.com/story/70261/most-hypocritical-book-bannings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 27 Sep 2009 11:26:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69928/ralph-nader-pens-odd-utopian-novel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRalph Nader, the consumer advocate and sometime presidential candidate, has written his first novel, the New Yorker reports. Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! , out tomorrow, is a “practical utopia” in which real-life characters undertake a fictional quest to—progressively—save the country. Over the course of its 736 pages,...http://www.newser.com/story/69928/ralph-nader-pens-odd-utopian-novel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 21 Sep 2009 18:52:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69235/rightwing-pundits-belong-on-the-fiction-lists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSalon writer Steve Almond has seen the future of literary fiction and it looks like Glenn Beck. Right-wing pundits like Beck and Michelle Malkin have dominated non-fiction bestseller lists since President Obama took office, Almond notes. A close read finds that their works aren't the "psychotic, fact-challenged rants of the...http://www.newser.com/story/69235/rightwing-pundits-belong-on-the-fiction-lists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Sep 2009 14:04:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68854/coetzee-leads-heavy-hitting-booker-prize-shortlist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJM Coetzee may become the first author to win the Man Booker Prize three times after his fictionalized memoir Summertime made the prestigious literary award's shortlist today. The South African writer's new book takes the form of interviews by a biographer writing about "the late author John Coetzee." But he...http://www.newser.com/story/68854/coetzee-leads-heavy-hitting-booker-prize-shortlist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Sep 2009 6:14:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68114/kids-pick-their-own-books-in-classroom-revolution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTo Kill a Mockingbird or Captain Underpants ? The choice, for most middle school students, is a no-brainer—and an increasingly prevalent one now that schools from New York to Seattle hope to revolutionize English classes by letting students choose their own books, the New York Times reports. The approach,...http://www.newser.com/story/68114/kids-pick-their-own-books-in-classroom-revolution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 29 Aug 2009 16:11:01 CDT