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                    [ArticleID] => 1496258
                    [Title] => Going for the bestseller
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August and September are usually busy months in the cultural calendar, and this year’s been no exception.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-06 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/arts-and-culture/20150907/Philippine-Literary-Festival-crowd.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 919591 [Title] => Claire Vaye Watkins wins $20,000 short story prize [Summary] =>

Claire Vaye Watkins has won a $20,000 Story Prize, the first woman to do so since 2007.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-14 10:03:07 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Lifestyle Features [SectionUrl] => lifestyle-features [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 846086 [Title] => Ex-Penguin rep sues, says publisher discriminated [Summary] =>

A longtime spokeswoman for Penguin Group (USA) is suing the publisher, alleging age discrimination and an "orchestrated, coordinated" effort to drive her out.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-06 11:38:18 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 752268 [Title] => A mid-November treat [Summary] =>

It won’t be the first thing that will come up when you Google the acronym “MILF” (and neither will certain secessionists down south), but for the second year in a row now, the Manila International Literary Festival (Nov. 16-18) has been a resounding success, proving that writing is alive and well in this country, and that we’re beginning to look outward for new readers to reach, even as we develop our local audiences.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5885/lif1thumbo.jpg ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 752056 [Title] => NBS titles to give as gifts [Summary] =>

The most talked about  and praised  first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is about a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who  from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister  dreams of becoming the Dominican JRR Tolkien and, most of all, finding love.

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Two Pulitzer Prize winners  Junot Diaz, author of the acclaimed The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Edward P. Jones, author of the prizewinning novel The Known World  will attend the 2nd Manila International Literary Festival from Nov. 16 to 18 at the Ayala Museum in Makati City. 

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