Literature RSS : Gourt http://arts.gourt.com/Literature.html en-us Copyright 2007, Gourt.com 2009-12-16T01:22+17:00 rtruog@gourt.com rtruog@gourt.com Literature RSS : Gourt hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 'The Second Plane' by Martin Amis http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/calendarlive/books/~3/0WIw-4wxgE8/cl-et-book14apr14,0,4092796.story 'The House of Widows' by Askold Melnyczuk http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/calendarlive/books/~3/7url0d2Chl4/cl-et-book7apr07,0,4512452.story 'Marco Polo' by Laurence Bergreen http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/calendarlive/books/~3/g6gpoYUpkmA/cl-et-book24oct24,0,6255489.story Books of The Times: Chinua Achebe’s Encounters With Many Hearts of Darkness http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=dc085cb4b29c29cc22e3b2a4102a7e63 Authors Guild Fights Back on E-Book Rights http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=325f9368462a3a412ccecf200790b416 Books of The Times: Fiction Trying for Truth in Novel’s View of Dictator http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=40dfb1b117ab50bcef3a30082c6685ba Top Author Shifts E-Book Rights to Amazon.com http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=6a9bff2530ec71a721da3650378ebb7b Books of The Times: Still Settling the Score, Even Beyond the Grave http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fb735bee2719d188db62fc81c59ccdc6 Legal Battles Over E-Book Rights to Older Books http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=e9e0b73944bbea49aed7778c21e52dfa End of Kirkus Reviews Brings Anguish and Relief http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=36143cffd4fc4a21d872904f6aa3b2a4 The Haunts of Miss Highsmith http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=45f5629dcca56ec2dcaa547dd647a238 Books of The Times: Bookish Cowboy Heads Off to the Corral http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=554c5eae8e3e66b89d7f9c616cb9493e Books of The Times: Personal Take on Public Projects in Two Devastated Lands http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=3d65608cc1ab8845ee2c264b604f8952 The Pop Art Era http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=6470ad50d3628c27644145478afe362e John Ashbery, Toying With Words http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b5ba00745a6dcc950778cb11a99f49fb George Packer, Chronicler of the Age of Terror http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=73258dd7f7f043f5f11f995e7076c90f Grigori Perelman’s Beautiful Mind http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=942fa76341672675242c11968144751c Twilight of the Ice Bear http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ed4097bbd58fb1a6eb2c4a075be76c60 Intercontinental Drift http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=f2d00f15594d30294010ef3febe4c154 He Was No Wilsonian http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=cbbcf9e22272226dec6d5a43de9df7a1 Abigail Adams, Founding Mother http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fe2ecd008ed991c2d555cdd3d43ae187 John Singer Sargent’s Model Children http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=13016917218808a51085e8e9d013bfd4 Shaker of Movers http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d95f2e3d58ee924bcde796f892e44722 In Defense of Truth http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=f3b35369f223d2cf6f5497e9eba8c8f2 Nonfiction Chronicle http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ec9082b1c3b49665cb35b7cdcc19dc0e Hardcover Fiction http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=1a1a2419120fcb32b275725585e13ad6 Hardcover Nonfiction http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2844f98759b95e50235bf3a9443d8caf Paperback Trade Fiction http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=e97945df03f475b99d0472a681c3b91f Paperback Mass-Market Fiction http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=9fdb361864eee38a87f681b305029b38 Paperback Nonfiction http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=29cd6bcb51a6527b11f619966289af5f Word for Word | First Couplets: A History of Odes to the Chief http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=24e26310c30d5fee294c930dcc5de36e Essay: H. 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