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August 19, 2019 at 1:01 pm

Publisher confirms Halperin book despite intense criticism

NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Halperin's planned book about the 2020 election has been officially announced amid protests that the "Game Change" co-author hasn't earned...

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August 18, 2019 at 5:37 pm

Planned book by Mark Halperin faces widespread criticism

NEW YORK (AP) — A reported book deal for Mark Halperin, the "Game Change" co-author and political commentator who has faced multiple allegations of sexual...

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August 16, 2019 at 7:18 am

Paule Marshall, novelist of diverse influences, dead at 90

NEW YORK (AP) — Paule Marshall, an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who in fiction such as "Daughters" and "Brown Girl, Brownstones" drew upon classic and...

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FILE – In this Aug. 15, 1969 file photo, concert goers attend the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held on a 600-acre pasture in the Catskill Mountains near White Lake in Bethel, N.Y. The famous concert poster with a bird perched on a guitar neck advertised â€œthree days of peace and music,â€ spanning from Aug. 15-17. But Woodstock lasted more than three days. Thanks to delays, it bled into the morning of Aug. 18. (AP Photo/File) NYCD603 NYCD603

August 13, 2019 at 8:19 am

Woodstock, Manson and the march to Utopia

NEW YORK (AP) — In the summer of 1969, dreams of a new society played out in muddy wonder at the Woodstock music festival and...

August 7, 2019 at 12:04 am

Toni Morrison was a ‘literary mother’ to countless writers VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — When author Angela Flournoy was asked to dress as her favorite literary character for a magazine shoot four years ago, she...

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August 6, 2019 at 7:31 am

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88 VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Sula" and other works...

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American Nobel laureate Toni Morisson, smiles during a press conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Wednesday Nov. 8, 2006. She will hold a sold-out lecture series at the Louvre on themes of exile, exclusion and being an outsider, talks to reporters Wednesday about her plans.(AP Photo/Michel Euler) MEU102

August 6, 2019 at 6:41 am

World mourns the death of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison VIEW

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and...

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August 6, 2019 at 6:03 am

Journalist, former ESPN host Jemele Hill has book deal

NEW YORK (AP) — Jemele Hill, the ESPN host who departed the sports network a year after tweeting that President Donald Trump was a white...

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August 6, 2019 at 3:03 am

Hillary and Chelsea Clinton writing book on ‘Gutsy Women’

NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton have teamed up for "The Book of Gutsy Women," honoring everyone from scientist Marie Curie...

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August 3, 2019 at 6:16 pm

Oscar-winning documentary maker D.A. Pennebaker dies at 94

SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — D.A. Pennebaker, the Oscar-winning documentary maker whose historic contributions to American culture and politics included immortalizing a young Bob Dylan...

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