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August 7, 2009

In the News: Friday Night Comeback, Scary Burton

Gary Gaines, the Texas high-school football coach immortalized in Buzz Bissinger's “Friday Night Lights,” has returned to coach the same team after a twenty-year absence.

Little, Brown has dismissed the plagiarism charges against “Twilight,” as “frivolous.”

Philippa Gregory will tweet her next novel.

Tim Burton doesn’t know why parents dislike dark fairy tales: “Kids like to be scared.”

The sci-fi author Terry Pratchett, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, has pleaded to be allowed to end his own life.

HarperCollins’ worldwide operating income has dropped from one hundred and sixteen million dollars to seventeen million dollars over the past year.

How to create your own recipe book.

The screenwriter and novelist Budd Schulberg has died, at the age of ninety-five.

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