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Author Santiago Releases New Book in Serialized Form

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From: Morning Edition (NPR)
Date: 19940610
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BOB EDWARDS, Host: In years past, newspapers used serialized fiction to attract readers. Charles Dickens wrote some of his most famous novels in installments for London papers. In the United States, O' Henry and Ring Lardner did the same for their city newspapers. Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer insisted that all his novels and short stories first be serialized in New York's Yiddish-language Daily Forward newspaper before they could be published in books and magazines, such as the New Yorker. But today, serialized fiction is less common. New York ...

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