BEST BOOKS

• Dance's Twyla Tharp gives lessons in collaboration

  Reuters – Thu Dec 3, 3:31 am ET

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Collaboration is critical in the workplace, choreographer Twyla Tharp writes in a new book that contends that although most workers do not team up with artistic greats as she does, the secrets to success are universal. Full Story »

• Google Moves To Protect Publishers' Paid Content

  NewsFactor – Wed Dec 2, 12:54 pm ET

  Google is changing the way it indexes news in an online world hungry for headlines. In the wake of complaints from media companies, Google has forged a path for paid subscriptions by altering its First Click Free program. Full Story »

• Google allows publishers to limit free content

  AP – Wed Dec 2, 10:43 am ET
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  LONDON - Google Inc. is allowing publishers of paid content to limit the number of free news articles accessed by people using its Internet search engine, a concession to an increasingly disgruntled media industry. Full Story »

• Book Talk: Baking your way out of recession blues

  Reuters – Tue Dec 1, 11:54 pm ET

  SYDNEY (Reuters) - When Suzan Colon was laid off from her dream job as a magazine editor in New York, her mother came up with some advice that has led to the next chapter of her life -- "put up soup," or resort to fortifying foods. Full Story »

• Google to let publishers limit free website access

  AFP – Tue Dec 1, 9:14 pm ET
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  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine. Full Story »

• 'Julie & Julia' author returns with a meaty course

  AP – Tue Dec 1, 12:18 pm ET
  AP

  NEW YORK - Julie Powell's new book is not for the squeamish, in more ways than one. Full Story »

• Palin book sells a million copies

  AP – Tue Dec 1, 12:15 pm ET
  AP

  NEW YORK - "Going Rogue" has sold a million copies. Full Story »

• French-honoured writer wins British bad sex prize

  AFP – Tue Dec 1, 6:15 am ET
  AFP/File

  LONDON (AFP) - Franco-American author Jonathan Littell has won the Bad Sex In Fiction Award for a book that had previously scooped France's top literary award. Full Story »

• US author Littell wins Bad Sex in fiction prize

  AP – Mon Nov 30, 7:00 pm ET

  LONDON - A cringe-inducing passage which compares a sexual encounter to battle with an one-eyed mythological monster was awarded Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize on Monday. Full Story »

• Goncourt winner Littell wins Bad Sex Award

  Reuters – Mon Nov 30, 3:44 pm ET

  LONDON (Reuters) - Jonathan Littell, who won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for "The Kindly Ones," has picked up another prize for the same work -- the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Full Story »

• Debut novelist wins UK's John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

  Reuters – Mon Nov 30, 3:18 pm ET

  LONDON (Reuters) - London bookseller and first-time novelist Evie Wyld beat top literary award winners Aravind Adiga and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie among others to land the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize on Monday. Full Story »

• `Julie & Julia' author chronicles second quest

  AP – Mon Nov 30, 2:28 pm ET
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  "Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession" (Little, Brown and Co., 308 pages, $24.99), by Julie Powell: From the title to the last page, former blogger Julie Powell's startling second memoir, "Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession," is smart and compelling but frequently coy: Does she mean cleaving together? Or faithful to the point of clinging? Or separating naturally? Or splitting open as with, say, a cleaver? Full Story »

• Mexican Pacheco wins Cervantes literary award

  AP – Mon Nov 30, 2:21 pm ET
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  MADRID - The Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor, Spain's Culture Ministry said Monday. Full Story »

• Fragmentary Nabokov novel published in Russia

  AP – Mon Nov 30, 2:13 pm ET
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  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Vladimir Nabokov's final, fragmentary novel went on sale Monday in two versions in Russia, more than 30 years after he asked that it be burned upon his death. Full Story »

• 'Twilight' publisher announces green goals

  AP – Mon Nov 30, 1:32 pm ET

  NEW YORK - Future sales of Stephenie Meyer's novels should be green in more ways than one. Full Story »

• Mexican author Pacheco receives top Spanish literary prize

  AFP – Mon Nov 30, 12:03 pm ET
  AFP/File

  MADRID (AFP) - Mexican novelist and poet Jose Emilio Pacheco was awarded Monday the Cervantes prize for 2009, the top literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world. Full Story »

• Personal finance books for kids, teens and adults

  AP – Fri Nov 27, 2:30 pm ET
  AP

  The approach of a new decade means a chance for a fresh start with your financial habits. Maybe your loved ones could use a nudge in that direction, too. Full Story »

• Book review: Sue Grafton's latest is her best

  AP – Fri Nov 27, 8:50 am ET
  AP

  NEW ORLEANS - "U Is for Undertow" (A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 403 pages, $27.95) by Sue Grafton: Can it really be 27 years since Kinsey Millhone sifted through clues in "A Is for Alibi?"