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Dongduk Women’s University halts coeducation talks
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Defense ministry denies special treatment for BTS’ V amid phone use allegations
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OpenAI in talks with Samsung to power AI features, report says
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Russia sent 'anti-air' missiles to Pyongyang, Yoon's aide says
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Two jailed for forcing disabled teens into prostitution
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Trump picks ex-N. Korea policy official as his principal deputy national security adviser
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South Korean military plans to launch new division for future warfare
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S. Korea not to attend Sado mine memorial: foreign ministry
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Kia EV9 GT marks world debut at LA Motor Show
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Gold bars and cash bundles; authorities confiscate millions from tax dodgers
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Founder of Dead Poets Society visits bards’ graves
FREEPORT, Maine (AP) ― The founder of the Dead Poets Society of America is visiting graves and other sites associated with Jack Kerouac and five others in his effort to recognize fallen bards.Walter Skold of Freeport, Maine, says the Dead Poets 2011 Magic Bus Tour is in Massachusetts on Friday to pa
Oct. 9, 2011
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New Books
Dinner without a recipeThe Kitchen Counter Cooking SchoolBy Kathleen Flinn(Viking)If you are going to read one book to change your diet and your life, “The Kitchen Counter Cooking School” is it.The second book by Le Cordon Bleu graduate Kathleen Flinn starts with her stalking a woman in the grocery
Oct. 7, 2011
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Author gives an insider’s guide to publishing
Jennifer Basye Sander has forgotten more about the publishing business than most of us will ever know.The New York Times best-selling author has written and co-written more than 50 books, including “The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Getting Published” (Alpha, $19.95, 400 pages; the fifth edition goes on
Oct. 7, 2011
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Grand Canyon’s majestic echoes
The vicarious pleasure of armchair travel is a well-explored genre for books, transporting the reader without ever opening a door. What such books do, when they are thoughtfully presented, is to share the excitement and immediacy of exploration while sparing the reader the discomfort.In “The Grand C
Oct. 7, 2011
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Japanese writer talks about life as laborer
Kenta Nishimura in Seoul for release of award-winning ‘Labor Train’He barely finished middle school, made his living as a day laborer, spent most of his money on liquor and sex, and somehow turned himself into a best-selling author. When Japanese writer Kenta Nishimura shared the prestigious 1
Oct. 5, 2011
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Annual New Yorker Fest has Shakespearean twist
NEW YORK (AP) ― To gab, perchance to argue. Ay, there’s the way to make New Yorker magazine fans happy.And so it was a delicious moment at the annual New Yorker Festival this past weekend when Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro mused to his co-panelist, Hollywood director Roland Emmerich: “I’ve long
Oct. 5, 2011
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Spain: Fugitive Basque separatist wins lit prize
MADRID (AP) ― A fugitive who escaped Spanish jail 25 years ago has been awarded one of the Basque country’s top literary awards, but told he cannot have the money that goes with it until he hands himself into authorities.The Basque regional government gave the award to Joseba Sarrionandia on Monday
Oct. 4, 2011
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Abuzz over Adonis for Nobel Literature Prize
STOCKHOLM (AFP) ― Predicting the Nobel Literature Prize winner is near-impossible as the Swedish Academy stays tight-lipped and often honours writers off the beaten path ― so could it be Syrian poet Adonis this year?Each year the names of popular authors are tossed about ― U.S. novelists Philip Roth
Oct. 3, 2011
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New Books
Dreadfully distasteful listsTen Ways to Recycle a Corpse: and 100 More Dreadfully Distasteful ListsBy Karl Shaw(Three Rivers Press)This book could be called magnetic. It pulls you in, the way a magnet pulls a paper clip, and it doesn’t want to let you go.It recounts Julius Caesar’s attempt to cure h
Sept. 30, 2011
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Star-crossed lovers go against norm in late Joseon
Lost SoulsBy Hwang Sun-won(Columbia University Press)Late author Hwang Sun-won’s short story “Lost Souls” is a lot of things. It’s a story of star-crossed lovers, a literary record of Korea’s turbulent late Joseon period, as well as a tragic case of two innocent souls who went against everything the
Sept. 30, 2011
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Anthony Bourdain has no reservations about publishing gig
Anthony Bourdain rolled up his right sleeve to show off his tattoo ― not of a beating cobra heart or other adventure from his Travel Channel show “No Reservations.” It comes from a book, Sarah Bakewell’s “How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer,” which descr
Sept. 30, 2011
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Russian Orthodox Church slams 2 acclaimed authors
MOSCOW (AP) ― A senior Russian Orthodox official claimed Wednesday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and said they should be banned in the nation’s high schools.Father Vsevolod Chaplin’s demand that Russia’s government investigate and limit the use of the
Sept. 29, 2011
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Paju book fest to celebrate literature, history
Ko Un, Lee O-young, Richard Booth to participate in nine-day eventPaju Book City, home to some 260 Korean publishing companies in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, is throwing a book-themed festival from Oct. 1 to 9, celebrating literature and its history with highly acclaimed participants from home and abro
Sept. 28, 2011
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Alain de Botton examines religion as institution
Swiss-born writer visits Seoul with new book ‘Religion for Atheists’Philosopher and author Alain de Botton grew up in a Jewish family where religion was thought to be “completely ridiculous,” and it took him a while for him to say he didn’t agree.“Anyone who was religious, to say bluntly, was though
Sept. 27, 2011
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New Books
The forgotten presidentDestiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a PresidentBy Candice Millard(Doubleday)Author Candice Millard looks back at a forgotten time and president and brings the era and people involved to vivid life in “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madnes
Sept. 23, 2011
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Choosing between life and art
A struggling writer and his wife move into a house in Gangnam in southern Seoul after 13 years of living in a smaller property elsewhere. Throughout the years the two managed to live in peace, though he never managed to write anything successful enough to make a living solely from writing. What auth
Sept. 23, 2011
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New novel examines the life of a 19th century celebrity
On Friday, Feb. 13, 1863, while the Civil War raged on, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page story on the wedding of Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump to Charles Stratton, better known as General Tom Thumb.Why did their wedding warrant such attention? Why did their guest list include not only members of the
Sept. 23, 2011
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Local readers no longer the only audience: Yi Mun-yeol
For author Yi Mun-yeol, whose works are published abroad in several languages, using famous sayings only Koreans share or only considering Korean readers is something he can no longer afford to do. “I am now also interested in other readers who will read my books in other languages and who I have ne
Sept. 22, 2011
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New Books
Heartfelt memoir of Lynch Happy Accidents: A Memoir By Jane Lynch Unlike the conniving, feisty -- and hilarious -- character on megahit “Glee” that has catapulted her to fame, Jane Lynch does have a heart. The deliciously evil Sue Sylvester’s voice is drowned out by Lynch’s heartfelt and hilari
Sept. 16, 2011
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Old Korean folktales on women
Old Korean folktales on womenVirtuous Women: Three Classic Korean NovelsTranslated by Richard Rutt and Kim Chong-un(Royal Asiatic Society)Meet some of the most famous female characters of Korea’s traditional folktales.Translated by Richard Rutt and Kim Chong-un in the 70s, “Virtuous Women: Three Cla
Sept. 16, 2011
