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Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 [28 May 2014|02:19pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/maya-angelou-lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html

Ms. Angelou’s landmark book, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide readership.
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Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 [28 May 2014|02:19pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/maya-angelou-lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html

The memoirist and poet’s landmark book, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide readership.
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Leah Hager Cohen: By the Book [28 May 2014|03:03pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/books/review/leah-hager-cohen-by-the-book.html

The author of “No Book but the World” says the last book that made her furious was “The Da Vinci Code” — “At the end of every chapter, I’d glance up and announce in increasingly disgusted tones: ‘What schlock!’ ”
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Children’s Books: ‘Big Bad Bubble’ and ‘Rules of Summer’ [28 May 2014|03:08pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/books/big-bad-bubble-and-rules-of-summer.html

Two new picture books imagine alien landscapes inhabited by monstrous creatures.
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Radu Florescu, Scholar Who Linked Dracula and Vlad the Impaler, Dies at 88 [28 May 2014|04:44pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/books/radu-florescu-scholar-who-linked-dracula-and-vlad-the-impaler-dies-at-88.html

Professor Florescu wrote books that sought to identify Vlad, the 15th-century monarch, as the historical inspiration for Bram Stoker’s antihero.
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ArtsBeat: Looking Back at Maya Angelou’s Life and Work, in The Times and on Twitter [28 May 2014|05:10pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/looking-back-at-maya-angelous-life-and-work-in-the-times-and-on-twitter/

A collection of coverage of Ms. Angelou’s work in The Times and notable reactions to her death.
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Smith Henderson’s ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ and More [28 May 2014|05:48pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/books/smith-hendersons-fourth-of-july-creek-and-more.html

New books by Phyllis Rose, Peter Heller, Evie Wyld, Valeria Luiselli, Smith Henderson and Aaron Gwyn.
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Leslie Thomas, Author of the Novel ‘The Virgin Soldiers,’ Dies at 83 [28 May 2014|06:36pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/arts/leslie-thomas-author-of-the-novel-the-virgin-soldiers-dies-at-83.html

Mr. Thomas, a best-selling author, used his experience as a soldier to write his biggest success.
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ArtsBeat: Looking Back at Maya Angelou’s Life and Work, in The Times and on Twitter [28 May 2014|06:38pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/looking-back-at-maya-angelous-life-and-work-in-the-times-and-on-twitter/

A collection of coverage of Ms. Angelou’s work in The Times and notable reactions to her death.
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Books of The Times: Patricia Lockwood’s ‘Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals’ [28 May 2014|08:05pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/books/patricia-lockwoods-motherland-fatherland-homelandsexuals.html

Patricia Lockwood’s poems in “Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals” plumb nature, both human and wild.
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Stefan Zweig, Austrian Novelist, Rises Again [28 May 2014|09:11pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/books/stefan-zweig-austrian-novelist-rises-again.html

Zweig, who committed suicide in Brazil in 1942, is an object of current fascination and the subject of a new biographical study.
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