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...Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, said in a tweet last week that she wanted to “make sure we have the strongest pro-life laws on the books in South Dakota”....
...In The Meat Paradox (Little Brown, March), Rob Percival explores our relationship with meat and asks whether we will still be eating it in future....
...Facebook’s relationship with publishers has “improved”, says Ms Brown. But the charm offensive has not won over everyone....
...Mr Eggers recommends Oryx & Crake, a lesser known work by Margaret Atwood, whose novel The Handmaid’s Tale has been adapted for television....
...The Monk of Mokha , by Dave Eggers, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$28.95 Even though it was actually a novel, Dave Eggers’ Heroes of the Frontier was one of the best US travel books of recent years...
...Within two decades of the Cranach, the Holy Roman Emperor commissioned his first full-length standing portrait from court painter Jakob Seisenegger....
...Shares in Symantec fell 14 per cent to $17.95 after the company said it had replaced Steve Bennett, with Michael Brown, a board member, stepping in as interim chief executive....
...© 2013 Dave Eggers...
...To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, by Joshua Ferris, Viking, RRP£16.99/Little, Brown, RRP$26, 352 pages You have to say this for Joshua Ferris as a comic novelist: he’s not afraid to tackle the big stuff....
...Pam Grier, who played Foxy Brown in 1974. Who might you choose to play you in a film about your life? Adam Scott, who is in Parks and Recreation and who people say I look like....
...A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99, 322 pages A formerly successful man, now enduring a depressing middle age, washes up in the desert north of Jeddah....
...Scott Brown, Republican senator from Massachusetts, introduced a bill last week and a group of Democrats are expected to put forward their own version this week....
...A Hologram for the King , by Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s Books, RRP$25 In this timely look at the decline of American manufacturing, Eggers tells the absurdist story of a struggling businessman attempting...
...I thought the Mandelson book was a bit so-so, but Blair succeeds in making Mandy seem like Dave Eggers or Len Deighton at the peak of their powers....
...● Tim West has left Babcock and Brown, where he was chief operating officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, to join Future Capital Partners as deputy chief executive....
...Such light formal gimmickry seems to bow the head to Davids Eggers and Foster Wallace....
...Kanye West can cut together a record sampling James Brown’s beats, but West’s never going to bring such sublime beats into existence. Why not?...
...Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, by Gordon Brown, Simon & Schuster RRP£20 Brown’s book, to be published on December 6, is characteristically less personal and more cerebral...
...“They got him,” Eggers reported one man as saying. “Next time in Khartoum.” Their confidence, to our shame, is so far illusory. Yet this has not caused the western street to erupt....
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