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Short story writer Lydia Davis wins Man Booker Intl fiction prize
ReutersBy Paul Casciato LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published. Davis - who has only...Tags: Dwayne Johnson, French Literature, Arts and Culture, Literature, Jonathan Franzen
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Short story writer Lydia Davis wins major fiction prize
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - American short story writer Lydia Davis won the fifth Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Wednesday for a body of work that includes some of the briefest tales ever published. Davis, a professor of creative writing at the...Tags: Dwayne Johnson, French Literature, Jonathan Franzen, Arts and Culture, Literature
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Rare 'Harry Potter' first edition fetches record auction price
ReutersMay 21 (Reuters) - A unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" annotated by author J.K. Rowling has sold for a record 150,000 pounds ($227,421) at a London charity auction, Sotheby's said on Tuesday. The 1997 book, featuring...Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Philosophy, Religion and Belief, Auction Service
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First edition 'Harry Potter' book, with JK Rowling's notes and drawings, sold for $228,000
LONDON (AP) — For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the "Harry Potter" books in the world. A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original...Tags: Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Literature, Arts and Culture, England, Authors
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Hollywood Museum to open 'Harry Potter' exhibition Wednesday
The Hollywood Museum at the vintage Max Factor Building is opening a new permanent "Harry Potter" exhibition on Wednesday. The collection features items from Harry Potter historian Christopher Knoll, a longtime member of the Academy of Magical Arts...Tags: Maggie Smith, Arts and Culture, Museums, Daniel Radcliffe, Arts
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Matthew Sharpe's storytelling experiment
In my inbox this week: Matthew Sharpe announces “a little experiment in self-publishing on the Internet”: a series of 12 weekly micro-fictions, under the name “Very short stories r us,” that showcase his idiosyncratic blend of...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Schools, Education, High Schools, Teachers
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From Star Wars to comics to gamers, Florida has events to satisfy your inner nerd
Orlando SentinelFlorida's got fanboy down. Where else can you count on an annual Wookie sighting? Disney's Star Wars Weekends, though, going on from May 17 to June 9 at Disney's Hollywood Studios, is just one of Florida's great offerings for movies, TV, comics and...Tags: Saint Petersberg (Russia), Natural Disasters, Royal Caribbean International, Star Wars (movie), Hurricanes
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), Technology, Arts and Culture, Art Institute of Chicago, Timonium
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Ancient redwood forests evoke look of future in 'After Earth'
When producers of the upcoming science fiction movie "After Earth" wanted to create an image of what the planet might look like 1,000 years in the future, location manager Dow Griffith knew just the place. He immediately thought of the mystical...Tags: Star Wars (movie), Credit and Debt, Science Fiction (Movie Genre), State Parks, Tourism and Leisure
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Judaism, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, Art Institute of Chicago, Nazi Party
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Poe House reopening planned for October
Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum should reopen Oct. 4, the group responsible for making it profitable announced this week. "That's the official goal. That's the date," said Baltimore-based actor and author Mark Redfield, vice president of Poe...
Tags: Prosecution, Digital Harbor High School, Arts and Culture, Museums, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Harris: Google's Eric Schmidt on North Korea and technology's future
Google's glasses may one day whisper in your ear an old acquaintance's name when you unexpectedly bump into them at a party. Google's car will drive itself in years — not decades. And what if Google's search engine could predict a question you...Tags: Google Inc., Chicago Tribune Columnists, Melissa Harris, China, Beijing (China)
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