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Prize-winning poet Gerald Stern has died.

The uniquely enduring literary agent who worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the following decades arranged deals for everyone from true crime writer Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears has died.

To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye.”.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newark Mayor Ras Barakas administration has sued New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, accusing the fellow Democrat of dumping his citys population of homeless people on New Jerseys biggest city. It cites several former New York shelter residents who were hustled through tours of New Jersey apartments and pressured to quickly commit to one, with the SOTA Program paying landlords a full years rent up front. The de Blasio administration said Newarks lawsuit would hurt rather than help families seeking to emerge from homelessness. The New Jersey program was modeled after one in New York City and both mayors praised one another for pursuing the initiatives. In a city of 8.5 million people, nearly one in every 121 New Yorkers is currently homeless.