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October 19, 2020

NEWS: Bill Gates Just Announced that He's Written a Book on Climate Change

October 19, 2020/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Bill Gates Just Announced that He's Written a Book on Climate Change

The Book Will ‘Propose a Plan for What We Need to do over the Next Decade and Beyond"‘

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October 19, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Bill Gates, Climate Change
May 18, 2020

NEWS: Bill Gates Has Released His Summer Reading List--Including a Pandemic Book

May 18, 2020/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Bill Gates Has Released His Summer Reading List--Including a Pandemic Book

And Some More Lighthearted Suggestions for Quarantine Escapism

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May 18, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Bill Gates, Reading Lists, 1918 Influenza Pandemic
May 04, 2020

NEWS: Colson Whitehead Wins the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction -- His Second in Four Years

May 04, 2020/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Colson Whitehead Wins the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction -- His Second in Four Years

Only Three Other Writers — William Faulkner, John Updike, and Booth Tarkington — Have Won the Award Twice

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May 04, 2020/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Pulitzer Prize, Colson Whitehead
July 13, 2018

NEWS: Obama Has New Book Recommendations--Based on His Travel Plans

July 13, 2018/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Obama Has New Book Recommendations--Based on His Travel Plans

The Former President Lists Some of His Favorite Books About Africa

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July 13, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Barack Obama, Africa, Reading Lists
July 08, 2018

NEWS: And the Best Man Booker Prize Winner is . . . The English Patient

July 08, 2018/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: And the Best Man Booker Prize Winner is . . . The English Patient

“Few novels really deserve the praise: transformative. This one does.”

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July 08, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Man Booker Prize, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
May 22, 2018

NEWS: In this Year's Science Fiction Awards, Diversity Was a Winner

May 22, 2018/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: In this Year's Science Fiction Awards, Diversity Was a Winner

The Nebula Awards Recognized Spectacular Women and People of Color

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May 22, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Nebula Awards, Science Fiction, Diversity
April 25, 2018

NEWS: Waiting for the Next 'Game of Thrones' Book? Keep Waiting.

April 25, 2018/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Waiting for the Next 'Game of Thrones' Book?  Keep Waiting.

The Book Won’t Be Ready, the Author Says, in 2018

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April 25, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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George R.R. Martin
February 25, 2018

NEWS: Michelle Obama's Memoir, Entitled 'Becoming,' Will Be Out in November

February 25, 2018/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Michelle Obama's Memoir, Entitled 'Becoming,' Will Be Out in November

The publisher promises a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling

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February 25, 2018/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Michelle Obama, Memoirs, Presidency
June 24, 2017

NEWS: John Grisham is Doing a Podcast of His Book Tour -- and It's Great

June 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: John Grisham is Doing a Podcast of His Book Tour -- and It's Great

He Talks With Famous Authors and Local Booksellers -- and His Literary Agent

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June 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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John Grisham, Book Tours, Book Industry, Podcasts
May 09, 2017

NEWS: What is Bill Clinton Up to? Writing a Thriller With James Patterson

May 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: What is Bill Clinton Up to? Writing a Thriller With James Patterson

A Rare Foray Into Fiction by a Former President

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May 09, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Bill Clinton, James Patterson, Thrillers
February 24, 2017

NEWS: A Book-Lover's Guide to Sunday Night's Academy Awards

February 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: A Book-Lover's Guide to Sunday Night's Academy Awards

2016 Was a Good Year for Literary Adaptations in Hollywood

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February 24, 2017/ Adam Cohen/ Comment /Source
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Academy Awards, Movie Adaptations, Films
December 02, 2016

NEWS: Lin-Manuel Miranda + the 'Kingkiller Chronicle' -- Count Us In

December 02, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Lin-Manuel Miranda + the 'Kingkiller Chronicle' -- Count Us In

The Hottest Broadway Artist Joins Forces With a Fantasy Literature Phenomenon

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December 02, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patrick Rothfuss, Kingkiller Chronicle
October 13, 2016

NEWS: And the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to . . . .

October 13, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: And the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to . . . .

An Unexpected Choice, Whose Words Have Helped Shape the Modern World

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October 13, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Nobel Prize
May 09, 2016

NEWS: What One Book Would Tom Hanks Take With Him to a Desert Island?

May 09, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: What One Book Would Tom Hanks Take With Him to a Desert Island?

He Gave his Answer on a Recent Episode of BBC's "Desert Island Discs" Radio Show

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May 09, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Tom Hanks, Desert Island Disks, William Manchester, A World Lit Only By Fire
May 04, 2016

NEWS: Hulu Announces a Big New Adaptation of Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"

May 04, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Hulu Announces a Big New Adaptation of Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"

The good news: it could hardly be worse than the 1990 movie adaptation

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May 04, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Margaret Atwood, Adaptations, Television
April 26, 2016

NEWS: New York Times Closing its Paris-Based Editing Offices, Ending a Journalism Era

April 26, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: New York Times Closing its Paris-Based Editing Offices, Ending a Journalism Era

As many as 70 jobs will be lost or relocated, the latest casualties in a time of shrinking budgets

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April 26, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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New York Times, Journalism, Paris, International Herald Tribune
April 22, 2016

NEWS: Tonight is the Start of Passover, and We Now Know What Albert Einstein Thought About It

April 22, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Tonight is the Start of Passover, and We Now Know What Albert Einstein Thought About It

There was one thing about the holiday that he fully believed in

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April 22, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Albert Einstein, Religion, Judaism, Passover
March 30, 2016

NEWS: Jonathan Franzen Will Be Competing on "Jeopardy!" – and the Schadenfreude Has Already Begun . . .

March 30, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Jonathan Franzen Will Be Competing on "Jeopardy!" – and the Schadenfreude Has Already Begun . . .

But America's birds stand to win if Franzen wins

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March 30, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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Jonathan Franzen, Jeopardy, Game Shows
March 24, 2016

NEWS: Bestselling Author James Patterson’s Bold New Idea: Bring on the Mini-Book

March 24, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: Bestselling Author James Patterson’s Bold New Idea: Bring on the Mini-Book

And it could be a smart move in this age of the short attention span

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March 24, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ 1 Comment
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James Patterson, Fiction, Short Stories, Technology
March 18, 2016

NEWS: National Book Critic Circle Awards Go to 'Negroland' and a Memoir of Love and Gender Fluidity (but Not Ta-Nehisi Coates)

March 18, 2016/ Adam Cohen
NEWS: National Book Critic Circle Awards Go to 'Negroland' and a Memoir of Love and Gender Fluidity (but Not Ta-Nehisi Coates)

Two big books about race win -- and one does not

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March 18, 2016/ Adam Cohen/ Comment
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NBCC, Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle, African-American Literature
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