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Trump attacks Vegas-area certification of Biden election win
Read full article: Trump attacks Vegas-area certification of Biden election winFILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo a county election worker scans mail-in ballots at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas. Gloria said election officials found 936 “discrepancies” among votes countywide — ranging from inadvertently canceled votes, reactivated voter cards and check-in errors at polling places. Trump tweeted the results amounted to “large scale voter discrepancy,” and said “Clark County officials do not have confidence in their own election security. Responding to an inquiry from The Associated Press, Trump Nevada campaign co-chairman Adam Laxalt texted, “Stay Tuned!" It remains pending in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, with a Thursday date for written filings but no hearing scheduled.
Blake Bailey's 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in April
Read full article: Blake Bailey's 880-page Philip Roth bio to arrive in AprilNEW YORK In the Fall 2012, as the willing subject of one of the most anticipated literary biographies in recent memory, Philip Roth joked that he had surrendered power over his own life to author Blake Bailey. This is madness.Bailey's Philip Roth: The Biography is coming out April 6, 2021, W.W. Norton & Company announced Thursday. But Roth and Miller, the nephew of Roth's friend Arthur Miller, had different ideas for the book and parted ways in 2009. Why should a gentile from Oklahoma write the biography of Philip Roth? Bailey remembered Roth asking him. Roth also lists recommended subjects, everything from his former landlady, to the mores and ethos of Bucknell to the McCarthy era of the 1950s.