Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

• AP NewsBreak: Rewrite for National Book Awards

  The National Book Awards are getting a rewrite. New rules announced Tuesday include a "long list" of 10 nominees to be offered for each of the four ... 

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  Review: 'Promised Land' doesn't dig deep

  "Promised Land" offers an experience that's alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections. 

• Beck looks for new connection with 'Song Reader'

  Beck Hansen wants you to think about the way music has changed over the last century and what that means about how human beings engage each other ... 

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  Book gift guide: 20 picks for the season

  Louise Erdrich is more than this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction. She's a bookstore owner and has some ideas for what customers ...