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Stephenie Meyer: A Latter-Day J.K. Rowling?
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Paul O'Donnell
Time magazine profiles Stephenie Meyer, author of the vampire-ridden Twilight series whose first non-“Twilight” book, “The Host’ will be out next month. Citing her unlikely rise to best-sellerdom (Meyer was a Phoenix, Ariz. housewife when she penned the first “Twilight” novel) and her 5 million copies in print, Time compares Meyer’s success to J.K. Rowling’s.…
Having ‘The Talk’ With Teens: ‘Sexless in the City’ Author Shares Tips
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Esther Kustanowitz
But for the rarest of relationships, for any parent and child sitting down to talk about sex is uncomfortable on both ends. Maybe it’s supposed to be that way. But the talk has to happen or a child will get the information–or misinformation–from somewhere else, the general Wikipedia-style body of collective and often biased, occasionally…
J.K. Rowling Goes to Court…Again
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shuang
A month after J.K. Rowling went to court to ban the publication of a photograph of her son, she’s back in court to ban the publication of an encyclopedia of the Harry Potter universe. RDR Books, a small publishing firm located in Michigan, had teamed up with Steven Vander Ark, the creator of The Harry…
Jhumpa Lahiri: A New Pop Culture Icon?
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Idol Chatter
With the launch of Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest collection of short stories, “Unaccustomed Earth” her readings all over the country have been sold out. Lahiri, an author in the literary genre, has become so popular that Knopf has reportedly printed 300,000 copies of her latest book, similar to the amount of copies printed for books by…
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