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Amazon announced Monday that it has amid accusations that seasonal warehouse workers had been . In a documentary aired last week by a German TV station, foreign temporary workers claimed that guards from Hensel European Security Services (HESS) would frisk them and search their rooms. Footage also showed some guards wearing clothing made by Thor Steinar, a brand strongly associated with the neo-Nazi movement in Germany.
Haruki Murakami's Japanese publisher says the author of Kafka on the Shoreand for the Nobel Prize in Literature will publish a in April. (In Japanese, that is 鈥� the rest of us will have to wait for a translation.)
Today in literary infographics: are mostly shy, plucky virgins with poor self-esteem and brown hair.
Atonement author Ian McEwan : "Like a late victorian clergyman sweating in the dark over his Doubts, I have moments when my faith in fiction falters and then comes to the edge of collapse."
The New York Times reports that short stories are on the rise and are a "." Although the Times' story isn't on par with the 2008 classic,","it has all the makings of an egregious trend piece. Can we get some data, please?
The Best Books Coming Out This Week:
In the memoir,author Michael Hainey searches for the truth about his father's death.
by Ron Rash is a collections of short stories set in Appalachia, NPR's Scott Simon calls it "pointed, fierce, funny and tightly packed."
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