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Postmodern genius Robert Coover has died at age 92.

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There was no better reader than James Earl Jones.

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Kaleidoscopic novelist John Barth has died at 93.

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bell hooks, generous feminist thinker, has died at 69.

bell hooks, generous feminist thinker, has died at 69.

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