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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksA sojourn with Salinger's family of squabbling siblings may be exhausting, but it is never dull Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from theBookseller.comWith six weeks at the top of the official Top 50 chart John Green's The Fault in Our Stars (...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from theBookseller.comMan Booker prize-winning The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Granta), and A Girl is a Half-Formed...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThis captivating book moves from falconer's diary to biography of TH White as Macdonald copes with the death of her father Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from theBookseller.comAmazon has reportedly offered Authors United, a group of writers protesting against the online...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from theBookseller.comHeadline has signed a deal for a trilogy by a British school teacher, which originally started as...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksSite member Katiedoglovesbooks gets to ask Kes Gray just why he ate lollies off the floor when he was a child and about his latest book Daisy and the Trouble with Sports Day Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited Books'It's really refreshing to have gay characters that didn't fit into the typical gay stereotype that YA novels always seem to feature' Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Welcome back to another Good e-Reader exclusive contest. Today we are giving away an e-reader we just found in our review labs, the Sony PRS-350. The Sony PRS-350 and 650 were the most popular Sony e-readers the company ever produced. Wh... -
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from theBookseller.comPicador is to publish a memoir by Cathy Rentzenbrink, associate editor at The Bookseller and...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Blackberry is betting big on their new line of smartphones, headlined by the Passport. It bears a resemblance to the Bold, but with a larger screen and a more intuitive keyboard. The Waterloo company is also winning back corporate clien... -
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesSpanish author Javier Marias argues that while there are plenty of reasons not to write novels, there's one that is very important — a shot at immorality.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesHave no fear of letting go, says Dr. Richard Foster, Lecturer at the Yale School of Management, to publishers looking at bracing for a future of change.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Astrosaurs author explains how Douglas Adams' novels and Doctor Who scripts taught him the meaning of science fiction comedy Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsAs the world's biggest comic-book convention begins, Ed Power explains what ordinary mortals can learn from their superhero cousins
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksInnes Bowen's study reveals how the government's attitude towards British Muslims has been defined in part by ignorance Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Books and Author InterviewsThe stormy life story of a Restoration rake deserves a better telling than this, says Lewis Jones
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksWeve ventured a few guesses as to who will make the Man Booker prize longlist but which books do you expect to see on it? And how many of them will be American? Continue reading...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsIt might be a bit surprising, but one of our most popular articles here at TeleRead deals not with books but rather with video—in particular, how to use a Flash-enabled web browser to watch Amazon Prime streaming videos on Android device...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from bookforum.comJeb Lund picks on Ed Klein’s new book about the Clintons, Blood Feud—specifically, Klein’s calling attention to Hillary’s swearing: “Utilizing someone’s occasional profanity as the basis of a character attack is up there with a sinister ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from The Nook Blog
July 23, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find is a collection of BATMAN titles for just $2.99 each! Overview Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Caped Crusader with today’s special NOOK Daily Find on Batman Day! Save up to 80% on... -
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from bookforum.comTHE BOOKS THAT LINED THE SHELVES in my mother’s home, and that, when I was growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1970s and ’80s, helped to shape my worldview, were almost entirely about war and written almost entirely by communists...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > BooksMr. Burns, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and political scientist, wrote voluminously about the nature of leadership in general and the presidency in particular.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Amazon has just released a new firmware update for the second generation Kindle Paperwhite. One of the big enhancements is for the PDF experience and now users will see a small preview pane on the top lefthand corner. This helps orient ... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostThomas Berger, a novelist of protean abilities who wrote crime stories, science fiction and chronicles of Middle America but was best known for “Little Big Man,” a rollicking tale of the Old West narrated by a spirited centenarian, died ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from globeandmail - Books & MediaBroadway regular who gave life to many popular Stephen Sondheim musical numbers was known for her brassy, unabashed attitude
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostIn the midst of so much gloom, a little happy news out of Ukraine: Yelena Akhtiorskaya can’t resolve the separatist crisis or repel Vladimir Putin, but this 28-year-old writer from Odessa subordinates the violence of nations for a moment...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsBy Art Hughes ST. PAUL Minn. (Reuters) - Former Minnesota Governor and ex-professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is a publicity seeker trying to grab headlines by filing a defamation case against the estate of a fellow ex-Navy SEAL who died...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Digital Book WorldStephen Colbert’s efforts to show he could sell more books than Amazon are paying off. In early June, when the Amazon-Hachette contract dispute was just heating up in the news cycle, television personality and best-selling author S...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostJust before he dies, Marjorie Burke’s grandfather leaves her a message: “He’s coming for me. Then he’s coming for you.” In Stephanie Feldman’s “ The Angel of Losses ” (Ecco, $25.99), Marjorie must unravel this bizarre warning. But she’s ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostThe stories we tell to explain autism go back centuries. The Celts believed fairies stole healthy babies and replaced them with elfin spirits. Bruno Bettelheim insisted the problem was cold, witchy mothers. Later, pediatricians and needl...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from The Digital Reader
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comPanic In A Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya Riverhead Books, $27.95 Publishes July 31, 2014 The Book We're Talking About is a weekly review combining plot description and analysis with fun tidbits about the book. What we think: In a blurb...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
The first 21 pages were published on MTV News.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comI've published a collection of short stories that has been favorably reviewed and am hopeful of accruing mainstream publishing cred soon. Thus, what follows isn't anything so grandiose as "advice" so much as an essay on my own process an...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Digital Book WorldA report released today by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) finds that 80% of publishers believe subscription ebooks becoming a major part of the publishing business is “inevitable.” The launch last week of Amazon’s subscription serv...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Technology for Publishing LLC » Blog
1) Go big. Maximize your pasteboard. A wider pasteboard area creates an expanded workspace to store temporary ideas while you work on your live pages. I’ve got my horizontal margins set to 200p. The vertical margins are at the 6p default... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comWith San Diego Comic-Con just about to begin, the news from the convention will be rolling out shortly, but in advance of that, we have an interview with Chip Kidd, the legendary designer and the writer behind Batman: Death by Design . H...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com"This $@#&ing Mac will be the death of me. Intuitive, my ass." It just slipped out, and I don't think I can be blamed. I was ready to leave the PC behind and take my Mac overseas for the first time when I couldn't figure out how to resiz...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesNumerous top authors are enlisting fellow writers to formulate a long-term strategy to combat Amazon's dominance of the market, writes The Bookseller.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comIn a revealing interview with Salon , Donna Tartt once said, "I had a fairly well-known editor tell me that The Secret History would never be published because no successful book by a woman had ever been written from the point of view of...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Technology for Publishing LLC » Blog
One of the most common questions we get in our consulting work is, “Well, what are other publishers doing?” That question often arises because most of us are busy with the daily tasks of trying to get published content out th... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from GalleyCatBrain, Child isn’t your typical parenting magazine. In it, you won’t find the top 10 summer activities for kids or a recipe for the best chocolate chip cookies. Instead, the literary magazine focuses on the issues of women an...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com"Are you excited about all the writing you'll do this summer?" I asked my exuberant Inktopia Kids summer writing campers. It was the last day of a fun-filled, early summer week of word games, character creation and poetry making. Every I...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from bookforum.comA carbon tax is our only hope
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comProf. Thomas Piketty's book, Capital for the Twenty-First Century , certainly has stirred up plenty of debate and political posturing. Progressives have seized on his careful examination of widening income inequalities to advance an agen...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Technology for Publishing LLC » Blog
The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite includes an application called DPS App Builder, which is used to create the physical app that gets submitted to the marketplace. Below is a list of the advanced options currently available in the DPS Ap... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comPeter Tieryas Liu is the author of Bald New World and Watering Heaven . His work has appeared in places like Electric Literature , Evergreen Review , Hobart , Indiana Review , New Letters , and ZYZZYVA . He is currently a VFX artist for ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe Man Booker Prize marked the first year of opening up to international writers with almost a third of the writers on the longlist coming from America.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Powell's Books: OverviewCapitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy Reviewed by Manas from Pune, Maharashtra, India.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsMore Yellow Pages than pocket guide, this book lists the locations of many of the world’s greatest visual art. Traverso’s ( New Directions in Scheduling the Secondary School , 1983) first foray into art history is a vast index of many of...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Courageous Heart ($2.99 Kindle), the first New Beginnings novel by Christine Bush, is free from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher ePublishing Works!. Book Description Hillary Holt wants to settle a debt by nursing her beloved au... -
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsSulak is the author of "Immigrant" (Black Lawrence Press, 2010) and has translated three collections of poetry, volumes by Karel Hynek Macha, K.J. Erben, and Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha. She is also an editor of The Ilanot Review and Tupelo ....
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsI wrote for some wonderful authors and they encouraged me to take the next step and publish my own book of poetry . Who are your favorite authors, and how have they influenced your writing? This is a hard one. I have so many authors I tr...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Paul Sybert Pens Contact: Paul Sybert , 831-238-4753, psybert@yahoo.com MONTEREY, Calif., July 22, 2014 / Christian Newswire / -- Compiled over thirty years, The Dreamer and the Hummingbird is author Paul Sybert dramatic col...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsHe shows them the results of poetry , experiments on language creating metaphors mirroring the " Reflection of a Hologram " (published by Xlibris). Novick likens ...Link!
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsDuring the telling, Collins' Whitman transforms into the young vibrant poet and we trace back along with him the ...Link!
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: ... - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, Victoria University Press - Max Gate by Damien Wilkins, Victoria University Press Poetry - Gathering Evidence by Caoilinn Hughes, Victoria University Press - Heartland by Michele Leggo...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThe Montara resident is a native of Anchorage, Alaska. She earned her MFA in Poetry from the University of British Columbia, and was awarded the Wallace Stegner fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University. She ...Link!
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Calling all Billy Shakespeares! The City of Emeryville seeks your best villanelle, sonnet, haiku, free verse, or any other kind of poetry you deign to write for its new contest, Poems on the Emery Go-Round.Link!
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: Dunedin poet and New Zealand Poet Laureate Vincent O'Sullivan has been short-listed for the poetry prize in the 2014 New Zealand Book Awards, announced yesterday.Link!
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilNEW YORK, NY — Since its launch in 2002, Grosset & Dunlap’s Who Was…? series has sold more than twelve million books, making it the most popular biography series for children. Perfectly aligned with the Common Core curriculum, ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Books on the Nightstand
A race for the Bingo!, Listeners call in about episode #286, Amy Bloom’s new novel, and a book on helping your kids stay organized. Michael and I appear to be in a race to the BINGO! though neither of us will achieve it any time so... -
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Paulo Coelho's BlogAt 23:15 on the 23rd of August I went to Lourdes so that at exactly 00:05 of the 24th, the moment I was born, I could be at the grotto of Our Lady to thank her for my life up to that moment and ask her to protect me from that moment on. ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Children's Book Council
“These books got away with stuff that likely wouldn’t fly now (Veruca Salt being sent down the ‘bad’ egg chute to almost certain death, anyone?). PC or not, they’ve all stood the test of time and still regularly appear ... -
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilNow everyone can submit nominations and vote for the “Beauty and the Book” award, which is the Stiftung Buchkunst and Frankfurt Book Fair’s international audience prize for the best-designed book.Frankfurt am Main, 17.07.2014 – Which boo...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThe late Josephine Pullein-Thompson, aged 12 and anxious to avoid any possibility of libel in her first unpublished novel, went to the family phone directory to check that the name she chose for her hero was currently possessed by no one...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from GotPoetry.com News“I give / You take / I break / You fake PITY / I bleed / You dive in deep / Into my blood / Thick as syrup / Tell me / Are you a mosquito?” Dobrev posts.Link!
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsFaiz (1911-84) more than held his place among this illustrious line-up of revolutionary-romantic poets including Allama Iqbal himself, Josh Malihabadi, Hasrat Mohani who originally gave the slogan Inquilab Zindabad but also penned Chupke...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThe Penticton Writers and Publishers group is calling for entries to the 2014 Clem Battye Legacy Award contest, a creative writing contest open to emerging writers of short fiction and poetry.Link!
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Bloggin' 'bout Books(Image from Barnes & Noble ) I'm not sure quite how to describe The Year She Left Us , a debut novel by Kathryn Ma , so I'm going to take the lazy way out and give you the official plot summary: The Kong women are in crisis. A ...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from dovegreyreader scribbles
It's started... Across the land I imagine people packing up cars and vans ready for the trek west this week, so how lucky are we to have just a thirtyish minute drive up and over Kit Hill (that's it in...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Book Portal Site
Author Paul Raeburn cuts through the myths and assumptions about being a dad and to learn what the latest research in neuroscience, genetics and developmental psychology says. -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Book Patrol
Who knew that Norman Mailer had a drawing side. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and literary legend also had a penchant for drawing and one of his major influences happened to be Pablo Picasso. A gallery of Mailer’s Pic... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Dear Author
That Night: A Novel by Alice McDermott. $ 3.99 AMZN | Apple From the Jacket Copy: A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the early 1960s. Sheryl and Rick, two Long Island... more -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from IBPA
(NEWS) IBPA is proud to announce the newest Benjamin Franklin Digital Award Honorees, promoting best-in-class digital content! The Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards (BFDAs), launched in 2013 by the Independent Book Publishers Association,... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedThis is a happy book" trumpets the title page of Clara Vulliamy's I ♥ Holidays (Harpercollins, £6.99 paperback), and indeed it is. Three cheerful rabbit siblings take a seaside holiday with Mum and Dad and have a good time doing the usua...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Stuck in a BookIssue 3 of Shiny New Books had not one, not two, but three posts about A.A. Milne & family - and I'd really encourage you to go and read them all. Curiously enough, none of them are actually reviews of books by A.A. Milne himself (as...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksHugh Eakin With the Gulf region, and much of the greater Middle East, entangled in civil strife and sectarian divisions, Oman looks increasingly like an anomaly. Dominated by formidable mountains and huge tracts of uninhabited gravelly d...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Whatever
A friendly reminder to you all that my pals Paul & Storm have a new album out called Ball Pit, and it’s terrific and funny, and I’m not just saying that because it features two songs I commissioned from them (“Fuzzy... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsMia Barkan Clarke recently presented an exhibition and poetry reading titled “Freya’s Tears” at the Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts gallery in Sayville. She has worked on the series since 2011 and is expected to publish the book of her...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from GotPoetry.com News"Poet" is an elusive term that, arguably, any songwriter would eagerly aspire to. However, ironically for such a creative pool, very few musicians actually can claim – or even merely accept – this title.. Link!
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Whatever
People have asked me if I have any particular thoughts on Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited subscription plan, and whether my own work will be on it (and one presumes, on other similar subscription services, like Oyster and Scribd). So, so...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Dear Author
Dear Ms. Porter: I have a hard time rating this book. There are some lovely turns of phrase and the story is different than I expected which made for a pleasant surprise. “The dart boards still dotted one wall as did... more -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Today on Amazon’s Gold Box, get $100 off Kindle Fire HDX 7″ 4G LTE. Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is Sleep With the Lights On ($1.99 Kindle; $1.99 companion audiobook), by Maggie Shayne [Harlequin MIRA]. Book Description Through ... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Book Portal Site
From appearances by Thomas Pynchon to the ghost of Pippi Longstocking to author fist fights, we look at some of the most memorable literary moments on the iconic cartoon sitcom. -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on the Knob
The Kindle Deals of the Day for those in the UK: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (£0.99 UK; $7.99 US) by Jamie Ford [Allison & Busby] ‘You just gave me hope, Henry. And sometimes hope is enough to get you through anything’ 1... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogYou’ve written a book - congratulations! But if you thought that was hard, how about trying to find publishers open to submissions? Lucky for you, we gather open calls each month to help make the submission process a bit easier. This mon...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: WRIT Poetry Review is a new and bold e-magazine aiming to showcase contemporary Australian poetry, and an emphasis on new and emerging writers.Link!
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogWhen the last book in a series releases, it's a bittersweet time for both the author and the readers. Neither wants to truly let their favorite characters go, but it's also an exciting time because the author is most likely preparing the...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from The New York Review of Booksa film by Michael Almereyda In this short film, photographer Chris Killip presents a group of largely unpublished photographs from the 1980s, taken in and around the village of Skinningrove, in North Yorkshire, and recalls his relationsh...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogIf you're in San Antonio for RWA, you might appreciate an insider's guide on what to do, what to see and, most importantly, where to eat. And what better guide than romance author and San Antonio native Julia London ? Today the author sh...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
When Chuck Palahniuk floated the possibility of a graphic novel sequel to his now-classic book Fight Club at New York Comic Con last … Read More
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
If the title of Benoit Denizet-Lewis’ new book, … Read More
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Amazon has 50 Kindle Books on sale for $2 Each. It looks like the bestselling title in the sale so far is How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain by (who could resist that cover?), followed by the l... -
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from RT Book Reviews - RT Daily BlogHere's a look at the titles we love that hit shelves this week. No TRAPPED AT THE ALTAR THE GAME AND THE GOVERNESS "Feather displays her talent for writing strong, well-developed characters and mixes them with sizzling sensuality, p...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 from Books on the Knob
Today in Amazon’s Gold Box, you can get $100 off a Kindle Fire HDX 7″, HDX Display, Wi-Fi and 4G LTE, 16 GB – Includes Special Offers, dropping it’s price down to $229. This is a brand new Kindle Fire HDX, not a r...
