Winners of British Academy Awards (AP)

AP – Winners of the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards, presented Sunday:

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS (AP)

AP – 1. “Worst Case” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS (AP)

AP – 1. “Worst Case” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)

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Romney book tour looks like campaign schedule (AP)

AP – Mitt Romney’s upcoming book tour looks a lot like a presidential campaign schedule.

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“REPUGLICANS”: Comics Courting Conservative Controversy? (Newsarama.com)

Newsarama.com – Less than a week after controversy erupted over what some interpreted as an unflattering depiction of Tea Party protesters in last month’s “Captain America #602″, independent comic book publisher BOOM! Studios has announced “Repuglicans!”, a project apparently aimed squarely at riling the political right.
“Repuglicans!” is an upcoming 128-page, digest-sized book by artist Pete [...]

Crime writer and former jockey Dick Francis dies (Reuters)

Reuters – Best-selling crime writer Dick Francis, who drew on his experience as a successful steeplechase jockey for his racing thrillers, has died aged 89, the BBC said on Sunday.

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS (AP)

AP – 1. “Worst Case” by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)

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Junot Diaz wins Writers for Writers award (AP)

AP – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz is among this year’s winners of the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.

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Salinger’s NH town has rich history of artists (AP)

AP – J.D. Salinger supposedly spent the latter half of his life writing for his own pleasure, composing each day in a pine house in the hills that overlooked towering maple trees, plowed hay fields and the neighboring mountains of Vermont.

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Hoare’s `The Whale’ gets big-book treatment (AP)

AP – “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea” (HarperCollins, 453 pages, $27.99), by Philip Hoare: A subject as big as the whale demands a book as broad as “The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea.” Part memoir, part nature writing and part literary criticism, the book takes readers [...]