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The author of “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” prefers books with action: “I don’t like overrefinement, or to dwell in the heads of vaporous ladies with fine sensibilities.”    

Also: Afaa Michael Weaver on being a black poet abroad; ebook sales jumped 44 percent last year; Cormac McCarthy's beach body.

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Expert on school choice to speak in Granby The Friedman Foundation for School Choice has connected the High Country Conservatives with an expert in education and specifically in school choice. Dr Liz Fagen, superintendent of Douglas County Schools, has in-depth experience implementing school choice in her district and beyond. Does school choice work? What forms does it take? Who gets the choice? What affect does it have on public schools? These and other questions will be addressed by Dr. Fagen at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 20, at the Mountain Parks Electric Community Room in Granby. Check out the Friedman …

A dirty deed and official cover-up drive the plot in John le Carre's A Delicate Truth. The novel sets its sights on old-boy corruption and corporate criminality at the heart of the "Deep State," but critic Alan Cheuse finds this latest effort lacks the tension of le Carre's Cold War novels.

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