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Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors in electronic form.

Pete Dexter returns with an autobiographical novel, “Spooner,” a cradle-to-grave yarn about a well-meaning but wayward soul and his saintly stepfather.

In When Everything Changed, Gail Collins outlines the way the women's liberation movement transformed of the lives of women in the United States. Reviewer Glenn Altschuler says Collins takes on topics from the Pill to Sarah Palin.

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The National Book Foundation named the finalists for its National Book Awards on Wednesday.

Next month McSweeney's will publish, of all things, a newspaper: McSweeney's 33 is to be in the form of a daily broadsheet -- a big, old-fashioned broadsheet.

The photographer Mitch Epstein routinely came under suspicion while taking pictures of dams and power plants for his new book, “American Power.”

This new novel pretentiously — and clumsily — tries to create a kind of virtual-reality game version of Manhattan.

When author Barbara Ehrenreich was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was bombarded with wildly optimistic, inspirational phrases. But a cheerful outlook, she argues, does not cure cancer. In her new book, Bright-Sided, Ehrenreich explores the negative effects of positive thinking.

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Most fantasy baseball books have no plot, no dialogue, no women — which is just fine with Tony Horwitz. But when Horwitz wants a little story with his stats, he picks up Fantasyland, by Sam Walker.

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At Hitchcon 09 in London, fans paid tribute to Douglas Adams, the author of the original "Hitchhiker's" radio plays and books, and a new "Hitchhiker's" novel by the "Artemis Fowl" author Eoin Colfer was released.

If a comic book about surviving middle school doesn't sound like a must read to you, think again. Critic Maureen Corrigan says that Jeff Kinney's Dog Days — the latest in his Diary of a Wimpy Kid series — hits home with any crowd.

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