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BOSTON – Can Boston compete with New York and Los Angeles artistically? Statistics indicate the competition so far hasn't favored the Bay State capital, as just 3 percent of working artists in America can be found in Massachusetts, compared with 11 percent in New York and 28 percent in
Culture
LONDON (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction Monday with "The Vegetarian," an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences. Han beat literary stars including elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante and Turkish
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court turned away a challenge Monday to Google's online book library from authors who complained that the project makes it harder for them to market their work. The justices let stand lower court rulings in favor of Mountain View, California-based Google and rejected the
Providence
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Fans of H.P. Lovecraft's writings are trying to use the growing fame of the early 20th century fantasy-horror writer to promote Providence's weird side. Lovecraft so identified with Rhode Island's capital city that he wrote "I am Providence&
Massachusetts
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) – Playwright and director Warren Manzi, whose cat-and-mouse thriller "Perfect Crime" is the longest-running play in New York history, died Thursday of pneumonia in Lawrence, Massachusetts, according to the show's publicist, Daniel DeMello. Manzi was 60.
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