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  1. 'It's Always Four O'Clock' and 'Iron Man' by W.R. Burnett: Two forgotten noir classics return in a new reissue. ... http://bit.ly/829ehm
  2. Serving poetry with your pumpkin pie: Many of our Thanksgiving traditions are slightly twisted versions of what rea... http://bit.ly/6IXwxK
  3. Alice, Beatrix and Harry: Valuable children's literature collection up for auction: A valuable collection of childr... http://bit.ly/7AWMXY
  4. Pop-up books in the news: The man behind the modern pop-up book, Waldo "Wally" Hunt, has died. Hunt, a Los Angeles ... http://bit.ly/5XSCW4
  5. Who's confused by Palin parody?: When we wrote that OR Books, publishers of the Sarah Palin parody "Going Rouge," m... http://bit.ly/4Mi5So
  6. Reading Heidi and Spencer's book so you don't have to: If there's a guaranteed white elephant gift this holiday sea... http://bit.ly/6HPGDg
  7. 'As God Commands' by Niccolò Ammaniti: The hard-boiled Italian crime novel involving a robbery plan hatched out of... http://bit.ly/5z9dAQ
  8. Who walks in L.A.? Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.: It was Orhan Pamuk's first L.A. visit. The Turkish native, who won ... http://bit.ly/4UrfkG
  9. A cornucopia of book covers: The blog The Book Cover Archive has come up with a short, short list of its top 10 boo... http://bit.ly/6v5sqW
  10. Reviews this week: not just Palin and Agassi: This week, there were some small books competing for attention agains... http://bit.ly/6cuqXg
  11. 'Invisible: A Novel' by Paul Auster: Multiple levels of meaning and identity figure in the author's new novel about... http://bit.ly/5QAZVu
  12. Shakespeare and Company's new literary mural: The English-language bookstore on Paris' left bank, Shakespeare and C... http://bit.ly/7WFTBa
  13. Can Nick Cave rival Bad Sex Award favorite Philip Roth?: British magazine the Literary Review has announced the sho... http://bit.ly/3EdKpJ
  14. Amy Goodman's book tour draws noontime crowd: It's hard to fill a bookstore at noon on a weekday, but that's exactl... http://bit.ly/2mXDaE
  15. 'Open' by Andre Agassi: A literate and absorbing chronicle of the tennis star's lifelong search for identity and se... http://bit.ly/1O5Og8
  16. Oprah pick Uwem Akpan in the Southland tonight: Oprah Book Club fans in the Southland can see Uwem Akpan this eveni... http://bit.ly/3ckJx6
  17. L.A.'s Wordtheatre in London pairs Nick Hornby and Alfred Molina: Los Angeles-based Wordtheatre lines up actors to ... http://bit.ly/1LQcdL
  18. National Book Awards include McCann, Eggers, Vidal: The National Book Award for Fiction went to Colum McCann for hi... http://bit.ly/2dWw5S
  19. Studs Terkel and the FBI: In the 1930s, Studs Terkel applied to the FBI to be a fingerprint guy -- maybe if he'd got... http://bit.ly/8uL5p
  20. Reading? Aren't books good for anything else?: Books are pretty useless when it comes to multi-tasking. They're good... http://bit.ly/PCEOE