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One winter, when I was ten or eleven and had expressed some fondness for or appreciation of our lives, my mother’s face clouded over and she announced, ‘You are going to see something of the world outside Gloversville.’



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Publ.Date : Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:10 GMT"; arnews[0] += "
"; arnews[1]="Look back in anger: Why the comic writer Richard Russo is haunted by his home town
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When Richard Russo was a child, his father called him by the pet name \"strunz\". The word was a rare signal of his Italian heritage: before emigrating to upstate New York, Russo's paternal grandparents lived near Rome.



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Publ.Date : Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:00:01 GMT"; arnews[1] += "
"; arnews[2]="Indy Choice: Best of the new books
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Enrich your mind with a selection of the latest fiction and non fiction books.



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Publ.Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:25:08 GMT"; arnews[2] += "
"; arnews[3]="Classics lost and found: Authors pick the modern classic they would like to revive
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According to the poet Ezra Pound, literature is the news that stays news. This spring and summer have seen that old saw cut deep. First Penguin Classics found that the paperback edition of Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada not only flew off the shelves but inspired TV discussions on the moral challenge of resistance to the Nazis. Here was a German novel of 1947 that (in a riveting new translation by Michael Hofmann) proved able to press the hottest buttons.



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Publ.Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:01 GMT"; arnews[3] += "
"; arnews[4]="The Diary: Womad World Music Festival; Paul Raymond; Cumbernauld sculpture; Ronnie Scott's; Raza Jaffrey
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Publ.Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:01 GMT"; arnews[4] += "
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