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How fiction draws Pulitzer-winner Elizabeth Strout home to Maine
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Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo share Booker Prize
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How ‘Deep State’ book disputes accusations of Trump bias at FBI, DOJ
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
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