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  • A 17-year-old from Pittsburgh has won the fifth annual August Wilson Monologue Competition.
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  • Hillary Clinton
  • Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has a book deal.
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hillary clinton, writers, entertainment
  • Zumba instructor and single mom moonlights as hooker.
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prostitution, writers, entertainment
  • Jillian Michaels orders two eggs over easy with a smidgeon of oil and two slices of dry toast .And coffee.
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  • A new book from E L James will be a how-to guide on one of life's most enduring passions: writing.
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  • Rachael Ray is multitasking.
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  • Behind Mariah, Michael and the constellation of stars at arguably the most successful record label in history.
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  • J.D. Salinger
  • A new J.D. Salinger film and biography are being billed as an unprecedented look into the mysterious life of the author of "The Catcher In the Rye."
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  • A signed copy of a rare Stephen King book is up for auction at a Maine bookstore, with proceeds going to a nearby homeless shelter's emergency home heating fund.
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  • President Barack Obama has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2012.
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  • Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster's most looked-up words of 2012.
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  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Add another book for possible holiday gifts: Oprah Winfrey's latest "2.0" selection.
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  • David Oliver Relin, the co-author of the best-selling book "Three Cups of Tea," died in Oregon, authorities said. He was 49.
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  • David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell
  • Paula Broadwell is telling friends she is devastated by the fallout from her extramarital affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus.
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  • Jose Garces new book The Latin Road Home
  • Jose Garces has given us cuisines from Spanish to Basque, Peruvian to Chinese, and Mexican street food, too.
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food, writers, philadelphia, local/state
  • Nobel Prize
  • The Swedish Academy says it will reveal the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
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  • Philadelphia Chefs Table
  • What would you give to know your favorite chef's kitchen secrets? Does 25 bucks sound like enough?
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  • Basketball great Bill Walton is ready to recap his amazing career and even more amazing recovery.
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  • J.K. Rowling has been named in a suit alleging she stole ideas for her Harry Potter books.
  • "The Casual Vacancy" (Little, Brown and Company), by J.K. Rowling.
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  • Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s British newspapers, and Andy Coulson, the ex-communications chief for Prime Minister David Cameron, will face trial.
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rupert murdoch, writers, national/world
  • J.K. Rowling has been named in a suit alleging she stole ideas for her Harry Potter books.
  • J.K. Rowling's former home can be yours - if you can conjure up 2.25 million pounds ($3.7 million).
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  • Salman Rushdie is dismissing the latest threat against his life as just talk.
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  • Captain America has a new job with perks, a spacious office and a title that others spend millions of dollars to get: Mr. President.
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  • Carlos Santana is ready for the ultimate riff: a memoir.
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  • Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is suggesting that a retired Navy SEAL be punished for writing a book.
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  • When DC Comics decided to blow up its fabled universe and create a brave, diverse future, Geoff Johns drew from the past for a new character: his own background as an Arab-American.
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  • J.K. Rowling is building two tree houses fit for a wizard.
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  • Pippa Middleton is publishing her first book: A guide to home entertaining.
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  • This book cover image released by Dutton shows No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. (AP Photo/Dutton)
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  • A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials.
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  • He has lived many, many Sundays.
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  • Cameron Diaz's latest project is all about looking and feeling good.
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  • Joan Rivers
  • Police were called to a Costco store in a Los Angeles suburb after comedian Joan Rivers handcuffed herself to a shopping cart.
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  • In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidal might have been president, or even king.
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  • Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died.
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  • An authorized biography of astronaut Sally Ride, written by longtime ABC correspondent Lynn Sherr, is scheduled for publication next year.
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  • Tom Davis, a writer who with Al Franken helped develop some of the most popular skits in the early years of "SNL," died Thursday at age 59.
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  • William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists of his generation, has died. He was 76.
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  • Writer Erica Kennedy has been found dead in her Miami Beach apartment. She was 42.
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  • Joan Rivers
  • "I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me," by Joan Rivers
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  • The two CEOs of the company that publishes Archie comics on Wednesday ended their court feud over control of the comics kingdom.
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  • Whitney Houston's triumphant, heartbreaking life is being remembered in a book by her mother, singer Cissy Houston.
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  • Green Lantern, one of DC Comics' oldest and enduring heroes no matter what parallel earth he's on, is serving as a beacon for the publisher again, this time as a proud, mighty and openly gay hero.
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writers, homosexuality, entertainment
  • Like two aging baby boomers, "Funky Winkerbean" and creator Tom Batiuk have turned gray and have experienced their share of life's ups and downs.
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  • William Hanley, a Broadway playwright and award-winning screenwriter, has died at the age of 80.
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  • A Florida county is putting the racy romance trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" back on its library shelves.
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florida, writers, entertainment
  • Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom has died. He was 83.
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mexico, writers, entertainment
  • An early Facebook employee and former assistant to Mark Zuckerberg will have a memoir out this summer.
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facebook, writers, entertainment
  • Founding Grateful Dead member Bill Kreutzmann has a long, strange story to tell.
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  • Bethenny Frankel has worn many hats in her rise to success.
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