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🇺🇸 Ann Godoff Dies: Legendary Book Editor & Publisher Was Was 76
[USA]
Ann Godoff, the founder, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Penguin Press whose stable of authors included E.L. Doctorow, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michael Pollan, Tom Brokaw, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smi...
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🇺🇸 Ann Godoff, Penguin Press Founder and Editor, Dies at 76
[USA]
Ann Godoff, an editor and publisher for Penguin Press, died on Feb. 24 in Albany, N.Y. She was 76. Godoff died from complications of bone cancer in a hospital, her partner, Annik LaFarge confirmed to ...
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🇺🇸 Trump Will Deliver His State of the Union Address
[USA]
Also, most teens use A.I. chatbots for schoolwork. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
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🇺🇸 Michelle Obama, Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Win on Night 1 of NAACP Image Awards’ Virtual Pre-Show
[USA]
The 57th NAACP Image Awards week kicked off Monday with former first lady Michelle Obama and rapper Kendrick Lamar winning two of the early prizes. Obama’s latest book, “The Look” — which explored her...
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🇬🇧 Six great reads: dating in later life; a lost Amazon van, ‘gong bath’ freezers, and Toni Morrison
[United Kingdom]
<p>Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/feb/21/six-great-reads-dating-in-late...
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🇬🇧 Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist and travel writer, dies aged 92
[United Kingdom]
<p>Writer made international breakthrough with 1980 novel Rituals and won acclaim for his travel writing</p><p>The Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom, whose novels, travel writing and translations made him a...
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🇬🇧 Dear Liar review – George Bernard Shaw spars with the original Eliza in Pygmalion
[United Kingdom]
<p><strong>Jermyn Street theatre, London<br></strong>Jerome Kilty’s fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell</p><p>Wh...
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🇺🇸 George Saunders on Anger, Ambition and Sin
[USA]
The acclaimed writer discusses the limits of kindness and the foundations of sin.
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🇺🇸 Captivating chemistry or a hollow misfire? Wuthering Heights splits critics
[USA]
Emerald Fennell's take on Emily Bronte's classic novel has received a mixed response from film reviewers.
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🇬🇧 The Artful Dodger review – buckle up, bozos! TV’s most breathless Dickens drama is back
[United Kingdom]
<p>Jack Dawkins returns to colonial Australia for a second series of the Oliver Twist riff that, despite its frenetic chases, lacks the wit and warmth of the first run</p><p>Here comes The Artful Dodg...
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🇬🇧 US judges dismiss lawsuits accusing Neil Gaiman of sexual assault
[United Kingdom]
<p>Former nanny Scarlett Pavlovich filed suit in three US states alleging author assaulted her in New Zealand in 2022</p><p>Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing the bestselling fantas...
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🇬🇧 ‘Chia pudding is Cathy’s composed side’: the wild and worrying world of official Wuthering Heights merchandise
[United Kingdom]
<p>Emerald Fennell’s lust-fuelled take on Emily Brontë’s novel has cued a hot flush of merchandise ranging from themed snacks to thongs. What exactly are they buying into?</p><p>That appetite for Emer...
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🇺🇸 5/26: The Takeout: Authors Brody and Luke Mullins
[USA]
For this edition of "The Takeout," Major Garrett sits down with authors Brody and Luke Mullins to discuss their new book, "The Wolves of K Street." The book argues that decades of lobbying members in ...
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🇺🇸 2/8/2026: The Indomitable Margaret Atwood; Knife; Officially Amazing
[USA]
First, Margaret Atwood: The 60 Minutes Interview. Then, Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minutes Interview. And, a look at the system behind Guinness World Records.
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🇺🇸 Salman Rushdie reads excerpts from his new book "Knife"
[USA]
In his book "Knife," Salman Rushdie writes about the 2022 attempt on his life -- where he was stabbed 15 times and lost his right eye.
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🇺🇸 What inspired the outfits in Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"
[USA]
In an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Jon Wertheim, author Margaret Atwood joked about the signature red cloak and bonnet: "Well, if you have a cult, and if you have totalitarianism, you have ...
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🇺🇸 Salman Rushdie on the 2022 knife attack that nearly took his life
[USA]
Salman Rushdie has come to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knows: by writing a book about it, "Knife." He detailed the experience in his first television interview since the attack.
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🇺🇸 Margaret Atwood gets personal with "Inner Advice Columnist" in new memoir
[USA]
Margaret Atwood's fiction tells of future worlds plagued by totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and global pandemic. At 86, she looks not forward but back at her her own life in a new memoir.
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🇺🇸 Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minutes Interview
[USA]
Salman Rushdie has come to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knows: by writing a book about it, "Knife." He detailed the experience in his first television interview since the attack.
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🇺🇸 Margaret Atwood: The 60 Minutes Interview
[USA]
Margaret Atwood's fiction tells of future worlds plagued by totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and global pandemic. At 86, she looks not forward but back at her own life in a new memoir.
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🇺🇸 Haruki Murakami Isn’t Afraid of the Dark
[USA]
The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters.
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🇺🇸 Best books for Valentine's Day
[USA]
Sarah Gelman, editorial director at Amazon Books, joins "CBS Saturday Morning" to recommend some of the best books to read around Valentine's Day.
Related: #Lifestyle, #Media -
🇺🇸 Chef and author Noor Murad on her latest cookbook
[USA]
Noor Murad's latest cookbook is a love letter to the Middle Eastern flavors she is known for using in her dishes.
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🇺🇸 'I made friends for life' - 10-year-old star on filming new Lord of the Flies drama
[USA]
Alfie Kiely spent three months in Malaysia while shooting Lord of the Flies, playing one of the "Littluns".
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🇺🇸 Bill Bennett's "The Book of Man"
[USA]
Author Bill Bennett discusses his new book, "The Book of Man," and the meaning of manhood.
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🇺🇸 Julia Donaldson reveals new character and title for third Gruffalo book
[USA]
The upcoming edition of the popular children's picture book sees the introduction of Gruffalo Granny.
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🇺🇸 Wuthering Heights star Jacob Elordi 'practised Northern accent in the bath'
[USA]
The Australian actor is starring opposite Margot Robbie in new film, Wuthering Heights, set in Yorkshire.
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🇺🇸 Rushdie's message to "the man who failed to kill an unarmed 75- year-old writer"
[USA]
Salman Rushdie's message to his assailant: "Our lives touched each other for an instant and then separated. Mine has improved since that day, while yours has deteriorated."
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🇺🇸 Rushdie: "The last thing my right eye would ever see"
[USA]
Salman Rushdie describes what he saw in the moments before he was attacked at a literary festival in Chautauqua, New York.
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🇺🇸 "My body was dying, and it was taking me with it," says Rushdie
[USA]
"There was nothing supernatural about it. No 'tunnel of light.' No feeling of rising out of my body," says Salman Rushdie, describing his near-death experience in 2022 in his book "Knife."
Related: #Philosophy, #Survival