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Frances Foster, Children’s Book Editor, Dies at 83 [17 Jun 2014|12:49am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/business/frances-foster-childrens-book-editor-dies-at-83.html

Ms. Foster founded her own imprint which publishes a dozen books annually and is still releasing new titles.
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Frances Foster, Children’s Book Editor With an Imprint, Dies at 83 [17 Jun 2014|12:49am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/business/frances-foster-childrens-book-editor-dies-at-83.html

Ms. Foster published award-winning authors like Roald Dahl, Peter Sis, Philip Pullman and Louis Sachar.
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A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel [17 Jun 2014|12:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/books/a-bookstore-owner-taps-a-wound-to-write-a-first-novel.html

Lisa Howorth, an owner of the beloved Square Books in Oxford, Miss., draws from a family tragedy to write her first novel, “Flying Shoes.”
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Bookends: What Would Marshall McLuhan Have Made of the Internet Age? [17 Jun 2014|02:42pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/books/review/what-would-marshall-mcluhan-have-made-of-the-internet-age.html

Dana Stevens and Rivka Galchen discuss whether we are living in a new revolutionary age, or just a continuation of the old one.
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Bookends: Has the Electronic Image Supplanted the Written Word? [17 Jun 2014|02:42pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/books/review/what-would-marshall-mcluhan-have-made-of-the-internet-age.html

Dana Stevens and Rivka Galchen discuss whether we are living in a new revolutionary age, or just a continuation of the old one.
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‘The Foundling Boy,’ by Michel Déon [17 Jun 2014|07:58pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/books/review/the-foundling-boy-by-michel-deon.html

In Michel Déon’s 1975 bildungsroman, a young Frenchman sets off to discover the Continent between the two world wars.
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Books of The Times: ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel [17 Jun 2014|09:17pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/books/the-last-magazine-michael-hastingss-posthumous-novel.html

Michael Hastings’s posthumous novel focuses on the American news media’s complicity in the rush to war in Iraq and on the withering of venerable brands like Time and Newsweek.
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ArtsBeat: Appeals Court Affirms Sherlock Holmes Is in Public Domain [17 Jun 2014|09:51pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/conan-doyle-estate-loses-sherlock-holmes-copyright-appeal/

A judge’s ruling harshly rejected arguments from the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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