Author McEwan welcomes new fans, dodges cult of celebrity
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JAIPUR, India (Reuters Life!) - British author Ian McEwan is uncomfortable with the culture of celebrity writers, but welcomes new readers who seek out books after seeing movie versions, he said at an annual Literature Festival in Jaipur in western India.
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Some notable and noteworthy new Hollywood-oriented books are making their debuts just in time for the holidays.
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An American bestseller, much of it set in Paris, has given the French tourist industry an unexpected boost as readers flock to the places mentioned in it to see for themselves the paintings and buildings in the book.
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A number of celebrities have taken up the keyboard to blog to their fans and loyal readers. This digital skip over the velvet rope &#151; a leap into public discourse rather than shrouded publicist-released statements &#151; has offered a new perspective of the famous.
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As host of the New York Baseball Writers dinner last Sunday at the New York Hilton, Newark Star-Ledger columnist Dan Graziano was pointing out celebrities in the crowd when one introduction struck a chord.
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LOS ANGELES  - Can an unknown actress-turned-writer dance her way to stardom?
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Celebrities are just like the rest of us when it comes to meeting and greeting famous folks: They're star-struck.
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By JAKE COYLE A number of celebrities have taken up the keyboard to blog to their fans and loyal readers. This digital skip over the velvet rope - a leap into public discourse rather than shrouded publicist-released statements - has offered a new perspective of the famous.
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Among hardcore film  fans, movie directors have become the equivalent of rock stars.
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Mets utility player David Newhan, whose father, Ross, is a Hall of Fame baseball writer for The Los Angeles Times, has persevered through a frustrating series of circumstances.
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The gorgeously rendered  adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement" -- and one shot in  particular -- is generating attention.
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Literary heavyweights, including Thomas Pynchon, have been expressing their indignation on behalf of Ian McEwan.
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It&#39;s news that has film studios, bookshops, printers and merchandise-makers licking their lips, and hundreds of millions of fans booking their place in the bookshop queue.
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Several new movies tap into the public's ever-growing curiosity about celebrity lives.
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A new book helps adults talk to kids about the birds, the bees and Britneyâs underwear in an age when sexual innuendo and provocative images seem to be everywhere.Â
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Up-and-coming rockers don't need million-dollar videos, A-list publicists, or glowing
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An excitable, book-length high-five for the Boston Red Sox by two of their fans, the novelists Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan.