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Ian Brown wins Charles Taylor Prize

Chosen from four finalists also including John English, Kenneth Whyte, Daniel Poliquin

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Jack Bauer is Kiefer Sutherland's mirror

Toronto author has written a bio of the 24 star's volcanic existence, aptly titled Living Dangerously

Google books project rolling over writers

Imagine that a giant monster invades your country. But the beast is not gobbling up people or homes.

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J.D. Salinger

Holden Caulfield's influence on art and tragedy

"If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies." It's ironic the late J.D. Salinger wrote those words uttered by his famous, fictional character, because "Holden Caulfield" has been replicated repeatedly on screen, big and small.

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An appreciation of J.D. Salinger

We like to think we choose our heroes, but I'm not so sure. Sometimes I think it's our heroes who find us, and all we need to do is let them in.

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Anne book revives interest in P.E.I.'s star attraction

A new book about the literary icon will explore themes such as "how the novel can be used as a tool to counteract depression" and "the possibility that Anne suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome."

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Author, musician Paul Quarrington dead, age 56

Died peacefully at Toronto home Jan. 21 surrounded by family, friends.

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A search for answers about Google's past and future

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It is a fascinating portrait that's more journalism than analysis.

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Crime novelist Robert B. Parker dies at 77

Bestselling novelist Robert B. Parker, who created the Spenser detective novels that became a television series, has died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., his representative said Tuesday. He was 77.

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Monster mashups mauled and moneyed version of the classics

Little Women and Werewolves will hit shelves later this year, alongside Android Karenina — officially announced Tuesday — and at least a half-dozen other paperback hybrids whose mummies, zombies and vampires seek to quite literally give the classics more bite.

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Levesque, Trudeau bios compete for $25K non-fiction prize

Three biographies and a father's memoir about his disabled son were named Tuesday as the four shortlisted works for this year's Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.

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Up with Kindle, down with starving authors

Jeannette Walls tells her grandmother's story in Half Broke Horses

This novel is based on the life of Jeannette Walls's maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, who was born in 1901 in West Texas and died when Walls was 8. Walls spent hundreds of hours interviewing her mother for the book, mining her memory.

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