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Patti Page, singer who achieved hits with 'Tennessee Waltz,' other pop songs, dies at 85 Jan 3rd 2013, 04:24 Patti Page, the "Singing Rage" who became one of the most successful female singers of all time with dozens of pop hits, such as the forlorn "Tennessee Waltz" and the yappy but irresistibly likable "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window," died Jan. 1 in Encinitas, Calif. She was 85. Read full article >> Book World: Selected letters of William Styron are a trove of amusement Jan 3rd 2013, 02:50 As in the decade after World War I, when the great American modernists — Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein and others — frolicked on the Left Bank, during the 1950s Paris was again the place to be. In Europe following the success of his 1951 first novel "Lie Down in Darkness," William Styron (1925-2006) drank and partied and became friends with George Plimpton, Truman Capote, Peter Matthiessen, James Jones, Irwin Shaw and many other young writers. He was there at the founding of the Paris Review and was among the earliest authors to be honored with one of the now-famous "Writers at Work" interviews. In Italy, he met a woman named Rose Burgunder, who became his wife and is the editor, with R. Blakeslee Gilpin, of these "Selected Letters." Read full article >>

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