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1. The Spinning Jenny Award for making authors turn in their graves
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Booker prize longlist of 13 ignores Amis, McEwan and Rushdie for novels characterised by humour and storytelling What do you think of the Booker longlist? Martin Amis may be getting heartily sick of people mentioning he’s never won the Man Booker. But the wait goes on, after his novel The Pregnant Widow – along with books from Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan – today became the most surprising …
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A NOVEL about “modern Australia as an exercise in liberalism” has made the first cut for the world’s most discussed literary prize.
California corrections officials say they do not intend to investigate Jaycee Dugard’s claim that she spoke with parole agents while she was being held captive at the home of a convicted rapist.
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SACRAMENTO — A report prepared by the state attorney general’s office says California parole agents spoke to the woman who was held captive by a paroled rapist for 18 years and bore his two children, but never bothered to follow up.
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