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New edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' to lose the N-word Keith Staskiewicz CNN 01/05/2011	China Looks Askance at a New Satiric Novel Gady Epstein Forbes.com 05/06/2010
What is a word worth? According to Publishers Weekly, NewSouth Books' upcoming edition of Mark Twain's seminal novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" will remove all instances of the N-word -- I'll give you a hint, it's not nonesuch -- present in the text and replace it with slave.	A Chinese satirical novel imagines a giddily triumphant country. The authorities are not amused.
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Unemployed copy editor auctions baseball novel for $650,000 04/02/2010	Herta Müller Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature MOTOKO RICH The New York Times 10/08/2009
An article on Bloomberg.com tells the success story of an unemployed copy editor, who has recently bagged $650,000 for an unpublished 475-page novel about a baseball team at a fictional Wisconsin college.	Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who has written widely about the oppression of dictatorship in her native country and the unmoored life of the political exile, on Thursday won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt dead at 78 07/19/2009
Frank McCourt, the Irish-American memoirist whose impoverished childhood in 1930s Ireland darkly colored his best-seller "Angela's Ashes," which won him a Pulitzer prize, has died aged 78.
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