Bernard Malamud

NEW YORK — Robert Giroux, a giant of 20th Century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday. He was 94. Mr. Giroux, who helped...

Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning. He was 94. Giroux, who helped...

Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th-century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early yesterday. He was 94. Giroux, who helped create...

Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning. He was 94. Giroux, who helped...

Robert Giroux, a giant of 20th century publishing who guided dozens of great writers such as T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep Friday morning. He was 94. Mr. Giroux, who helped create one of the most notable publishing houses...

Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning. He was 94. Giroux, who helped...

Dictation A Quartet Cynthia Ozick Houghton Mifflin: 180 pp., $24 Cyhthia Ozick is double-barreled. She's an inventive and revelatory fiction writer and an exacting, battle-ready critic; an impish writer of conscience and a creative intellectual. In...

AFTER the insane fame and wealth of "Friends," David Schwimmer is back to what he considers to be his essence -- trying to make it as a working actor-writer-director, albeit one who never again has to worry about making it. It's a nice life, if also an...

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In addition to the Herricks suit, two other major U.S. Supreme Court cases were generated on Long Island. In 1982, the court ruled that it was an unconstitutional suppression of ideas for the Island Trees school district in Levittown to remove books...

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