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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsIn today’s Morning Links, we feature a story from Digital Book World where Jeremy Collins says: One of the most confusing things to me about the Amazon-Hachette contract dispute saga is why do so many indie authors want so passiona...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from The Future of Ink
by Penny Sansevieri Electronic newsletters have been around for as long as I’ve been in business; prior to that, I can remember getting them in the mail. Newsletters seem very 1990’s don’t they? They don’t have the flash of “new media” o... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsA Round-Up of NYPL’s #IReadEverywhere (Book Riot) The NYPL recently started a hashtag campaign to promote literacy (as well as their services): #IReadEveryWhere. It’s worth checking out on Twitter just for fun AND for some great book rec...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Digital Book World
Analyzing the logic behind some indie authors' support for Amazon, HarperCollins gears up to square off against Amazon next, OverDrive launches worldwide "Read an Ebook Day" and much more. -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsA Wall Street Journal article (if it’s paywalled, Google the headline to read it) delves into the sources of the pre-order blocking matter between Amazon and Disney…and if you could summarize it with a single phrase, it would be “the sho...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from NYT > BooksMr. Swanson’s new book, “Blood Aces,” tells the story of the Dallas crime boss who moved to Vegas and started the World Series of Poker.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from theBookseller.comHundreds of people queued at bookshops which staged midnight events or early openings for the...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from theBookseller.comIllustrated book publisher Quarto has seen a fall in revenue and profits after what it described...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from theBookseller.comInternational online boutique bookseller Best Little Bookshop has launched in beta form, with the...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesRoger Tagholm offers brief defense of that irksome phrase in Amazon’s Reader’s United letter, the part where they refer to 'the famous author George Orwell.'
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesAs part of our ongoing series looking at best practices for book promotion, Colleen Devine Ellis considers the best way to approach the author/publisher partnership.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Welcome back to another installment of the Good e-Reader Outdoor Reading Test! Today we look at the Sony DPT-S1 Digital Paper e-Reader and see how it performs underneath the sun. This will give you an indication on how the e-ink Mobius s... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Sony has discontinued making the Sony PRS-T3 e-readers in North America and Europe. This is creating an atmosphere where many existing Sony users want to insure they have a backup available incase their primary unit bites the dust. Curre... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
The Onyx Boox Universe is now available for most people to buy internationally via Amazon for $339. This new device has a giant 9.7 inch screen and uses Android 4.2 and has Google Play. Onyx has been promoting the concept of an e-ink rea... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Voracious readers have many different options available to peruse their favorite book. Tablets, e-Readers, smartphones and real books are all viable options. Over the course of the last month we have ran a poll on our website where 784 p... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
HarperCollins Publishers today announced the HarperCollins Promotional Fund (HCPF), which will provide an additional fund of marketing dollars for Independent Retailers in the company’s fiscal year 2015, which began on July 1, 2014. Qual... -
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from The Nook Blog
August 12, 2014: Today’s NOOK Daily Find offer is ZERO FADE — a hilarious, yet wise, coming-of-age story set in the 1990s – for just $1.99. Overview Chris L. Terry’s debut young adult novel ZERO FADE chronicles eight d... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from The eBook Reader BlogThe folks at Arta Tech have started selling the Onyx Boox M96 Universe from Amazon.com for $339, and they even sent me one to review. The device is also available from Onyx-Boox.com for 309 euros. That’s the same seller that distri...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Nook Blog
Match game fans: check out this week’s App Buzz featuring 5 match-3 games sure to keep you busy for hours! BEJEWELED 2 Get the fan-favorite game now on NOOK! Match sparkling gems 3 at a time to make them burst […] -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsGenCon is coming up this weekend, at the Indianapolis Convention Center (that kind of flat building at right, visible between those two red towers) here in scenic Indianapolis. Are any of our readers planning on attending? It would be co...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The eBook Reader BlogThe Onyx Boox T68 isn’t the only new ebook reader that runs open Android. A new version of the Icarus Illumina HD (E653 series) has just been released in the US and Europe. It sells from IcarusReader.com for 119 euros, or 135 euros...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
I love my Apple TV. I hate my Apple TV remote. I have taken its’ name in vain on more than one occasion, usually about the time I’ve lost it yet again and I tear apart the couch trying to find that slippery silver sliver (say... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.com(RNS) The nation’s second largest Christian book retailer has pulled megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll’s books from its website and 186 stores. Leaders at the Southern Baptist Convention’s LifeWay Christian Resources, informed stores on Fr...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Digital Book WorldOne of the most confusing things to me about the Amazon-Hachette contract dispute saga is why do so many indie authors want so passionately for Hachette, a competitor, to lower its prices? Isn’t it against their self-interest? Don&...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Publishing PerspectivesChina's self-publishing portals are offering writers access to vast audiences and earning them staggering royalties, and turning some into multi-millionaires.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
With Apple set to launch iCloud Drive in the next short while, it seems like a good time for Dropbox to do a few upgrades. Generally considered one of the leading cloud-based document storage solutions, Dropbox for Android has firmed up ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
Welcome to another Good e-Reader Video Comparison. Today, we look at the two of the latest generation devices that do an amazing job at reading PDF files. The Apple iPad Air and the Sony Digital Paper both provide unique experiences. The... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from NYT > BooksHelen Thorpe’s “Soldier Girls” shows how service in Afghanistan or Iraq affected three women.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from NYT > BooksTitles, fundamentally based on the sciences, as selected by the science editors from all adult nonfiction books reported to The New York Times for the month.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsOne of the concerns when people sign up for subscription services like Kindle Unlimited is “will I use it enough to make it worth the cost?” Hugh Howey likens it to gym memberships where you sign up for auto-renewal and then ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News
When you are the most financially successful company in the digital library space, an inflated sense of ego generally occurs. Overdrive is trying to start a new holiday called “Read an eBook Day” and is giving away a number o... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Digital Reader
Do you want to see something weird? Then check out this page on Amazon.com for one of the Kindle Paperwhites. If you click the link you’ll see that you’re looking at the product page for the international Kindle Paperwhite (2... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from NYT > BooksBernhard Edmaier’s latest book of stunning photographs of Earth’s topography focuses on the vibrant, dazzling and almost unlikely colors that abound in nature.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GalleyCatMore than 900 authors including Stephen King , Malcolm Gladwell and Suzanne Collins have signed a letter calling readers to email Amazon chief Jeff Bezos and ask him to end the company’s dispute with Hachette. “We call on Ama...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Book Publishing on Huffington Post
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from NYT > BooksJess Row’s new novel, “Your Face in Mine,” explores “racial reassignment” and what it could mean for identity.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from NewsObserver.com -- BooksReaders take an international approach. Click to Continue »
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GalleyCatIn response to an author campaign against Amazon in the Hachette battle, the online giant sent out a letter to Kindle readers defending the low price of eBooks. In the letter, the Seattle-based company talks about how the literary establ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from bookforum.comHistory and South Asia
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comFirst published in Publishers Weekly: This week, new Murakami, racial reassignment surgery, and looking for Jack Kerouac. Copyright (c) 2014 PWxyz, LLC, Publishers Weekly. Used by permission.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from USATODAY - Books Top Stories
It does not appear the dispute is ending any time soon.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksThe Scottish first minister, the best-selling author of the Game of Thrones saga and more highlights from the third day of the Edinburgh international books festival Continue reading...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Books: Book Reviews, News, Stores, Events & More - The Washington PostBestselling crime writer Lisa Scottoline pairs up with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, in “Have a Nice Guilt Trip” (St. Martin’s, $24.99) — their fourth book featuring essays on relationships, mothers, pets and shoes. They spoke via ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topicsOkay, yes, I admit the first time I saw this, my reaction was something like: weird steampunky fusion of tablet and mechanical spider. I don’t know which of us started singing “Spider Thing” to the tune of “Spider...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The eBook Reader BlogAmazon has just released another software update for the second generation Kindle Paperwhite, version 5.4.5.1. The changelog remains the same as the 5.4.5 update that Amazon issued three weeks ago today. Even though it isn’t specif...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from NYT > Books
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GalleyCatParents in Fremont, California are petitioning their school district not to use the book Your Health Today as the new sex education textbook for ninth graders. The district voted to purchase the book back in June. Yet some parents think ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Books on HuffingtonPost.comFollowing closely behind HuffPost Entertainment's premiere of Tori Kelly's "Silent" music video , the singer-songwriter is looking to expand the track's powerful message beyond the reel of the upcoming film adaptation of "The Giver." Kel...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Guardian Unlimited BooksGoodness knows why nobody took Arthur Haileys blockbuster away from me, but it taught my 11-year-old self to love novels Continue reading...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GalleyCatLooking to read a collection of Wikipedia articles in one easy format? Wikipedia has a feature that lets you turn an article or collection of articles into an eBook. The tool is called Book Creator and will export the articles that you s...
- George RR Martin: Fans have correctly predicted the ending to A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of ThronesTuesday, August 12, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedGeorge RR Martin has revealed that "one or two" fans have put together the clues in his A Song of Ice and Fire series and correctly guessed how it will end.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from BookMarketingBuzzBlogFor writers who have tried to get published by a traditional book publisher – and have been rejected or told to use a literary agent and have never landed one – many will rail against the establishment with cries of “elitists,” “gatekeep...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Semantico‘We’re in a world where people don’t really understand what they want until you put it in front of them,’ says Toby Green Head of Publishing at OECD. He’s talking about the challenge of creating new digital products in a …
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedGame of Thrones fans have been begging for some full-throttle male sex scenes, author George R R Martin has said, as he reveals that most of those requests come from women.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedGame of Thrones fans have been begging for some full-throttle male sex scenes, author George R R Martin has said, as he reveals that most of those requests come from women.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsMash up Lovecraft and Ludlum, stir in exotic geography and lashings of mad science, and you’ve got the latest from the Rollins ( Bloodline , 2012, etc.) pop-thriller factory. Given that half of adult Americans reportedly don’t beli...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA daylong field trip without origami? Nostrul! Er, awful! Tommy and his fellow seventh-grade Star Wars (and origami) fanatics are ready to go on the field trip they worked so hard to get reinstated in Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue (2...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA wife and mother becomes an unlikely art thief in this debut novel. When Sophie Porter and her museum-curator husband buy her dream home in Philadelphia, she knows it’s slightly out of their budget. What she doesn’t know, however, is th...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsGreat news for fans who feared they’d see no more of Kurt Wallander: a characteristically melancholy novella whose events take place in 2002, just before those of Wallander’s last appearance ( The Troubled Man, 2011). The most belo...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsGay introduces young readers to her craft as an author and illustrator of children’s books, simultaneously inviting their participation in creating the story. In a spread at the beginning, the author is addressed by a heaving crowd of yo...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsIn the second of this photo-illustrated series, Lola the winsome Yorkie goes to the vet. Perhaps running a close second to monsters is children’s fear of going to the doctor and getting shots. It’s not Lola’s favorite thing to do either....
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsTransplanted New Yorker Hart’s idea of creating a fake cooking show began as a joke for a friend in California. At last count, her YouTube channel, “My Drunk Kitchen,” had tallied more than 66 million views. Hart’s “cookbook” w...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe spectacular rise and dizzying fall of a legendary Spanish desperado. Memory, contrition, love and loss all permeate this thoughtful contemplation on the generation of radical adolescents that emerged in Spain in its post-Franco years...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAnother heinous murder in the frozen north. In the tradition of modern Nordic crime fiction popularized by another Larsson, this is a stark, bloody book with strong female leads. There are two separate but related stories running paralle...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA runaway soldier forces nursing sister Bess Crawford to find a killer and clear her name during World War I. Home from the battlefront on a three-day leave, Bess gets a puzzling assignment. Sgt. Jason Wilkins, a wounded soldier she does...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsIn her eighth world-class headache, Liz Carlyle and the rest of MI5 ( The Geneva Trap, 2012, etc.) tangle with a ring that deals weapons to the worst kind of people. As you may have noticed from recent headlines, the Arab Spring didn’t e...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAn eighth season of charmingly featherweight escapades, moral dilemmas, and errors committed and corrected and sometimes simply brushed aside by the denizens of 44 Scotland St. and its Edinburgh environs. Miraculously, anthropologist Dom...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsA Korean-American woman drifts from Yale into a job as a private investigator. Juniper Song’s efforts as an amateur sleuth got her best friend killed ( Follow Her Home , 2013). Now her friend Chaz Lindley, who’s also her boss at the firm...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsEquestrienne Tink Elledge is back to juggle husbands and solve murders in the Sierra Nevada. In pursuit of a runaway horse near Truckee, California, Tink runs smack into the Institute for Biology and Higher Mind and a fast-talking PR man...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsTwenty stories of embattled brothers and twisted sisters hand-selected by Palahniuk and two comrades from his online community The Cult. Transgressive fiction is a much broader label than many readers realize, encompassing everything fro...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsAfter a decade, Hobb ( Fool’s Fate , 2004, etc.) again takes up the characters from the Farseer series. In this world of magic, the high born despise the Wit, an ability to connect to the minds of animals, yet prize the Skill, a powerful...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsThe unlikely murder of an elderly relative sends a judge and her husband scurrying to investigate family history in order to find out who stands to gain from an old woman’s death. When her cousin Sally Crenshaw shows up in her courtroom ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsCompetition winner Pippa is spending two weeks in New York City at a prestigious photography camp run by art college Tisch. Though she’s had an entrancing date with romantic boyfriend Dylan, Pippa’s conflicted since he’s asked her not to...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsNeed inspiration for career day? Here’s one solution. Hatanaka sets himself a challenge: pairing each of the 26 letters of the alphabet with an occupation. The one-word text naming the occupation is set against a graphically clean, decep...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Kirkus ReviewsWhen 4-year-old Issy dies of meningitis, her Mormon family struggles with sadness, doubt and faith. The Bradleys—Ian, Claire, Zippy, Alma, Jacob and Issy—don’t live in Salt Lake City but rather in an English town where Ian is constantly ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilSome of the respondents included young adult writers Rainbow Rowell, Holly Black, and John Green. For Rowell, the pairing she “ships” would be Mrs. Frisby and Justin from Robert C. O’Brien’s Mrs. Frisby and the Ra...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Children's Book CouncilNew York, NY - Unlocking the Truth, the Brooklyn-bred, tween heavy metal band, will publish a book with Putnam Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group. Written by the band’s three African American members – Mal...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry News: This reading follows the guidelines of former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Each reader has five minutes to read a favorite poem and talk about its significance.Link!
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsShe was also called "the grande dame of Chicano poetry," among other accolades. After her death, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center paid tribute to her for her significant role..Link!
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 from Children's Book Council“This afternoon, I talked to a friend of Cassidy’s who confirmed that JK Rowling did, in fact, write her a personalized letter from “Dumbledore” (hand-written with purple ink). She also sent a wand, an acceptance ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThe centenary of World War One means the work of the British war poets has been much quoted of late. But the reputation of writers critical of the war, such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, grew mainly after 1918. Link!
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsOn Friday, August 15th, 3rd Space presents a Performing Poetry Workshop with Ngoma Hill. Designed particularly for Performance Poets this performance workshop enhances the poets’ ability to deliver poetry and develop stage presence throu...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsHe is 86 years old, his eyesight is failing and much of his recent work reads like a man saying goodbye. But W.S. Merwin continues to write poems; he cannot help himself.Link!
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsThere is a gold light in certain old paintings That represents a diffusion of sunlight. It is like happiness, when we are happy.Link!
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsPoetry lovers are spoiled for choice with more than 60 events being held all around the country to celebrate National Poetry Day on Friday, 22 August. National Poetry Day is held in association with the New Zealand Post Book Awards.Link!
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsOver the years and on several occasions, Bill Moyers interviewed Maya Angelou, the legendary author who died in late May. In this first of two programs celebrating her extraordinary life and legacy, Moyers revisits an episode from his 19...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsI would ask readers to welcome Laurie Kolp, but most of you already know her as a long-time part of the Poetic Asides community. She’s placed in a few of the WD Poetic Form Challenges, and some of you may know her debut poetry collection...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsSnap hard for this one: For the first time, D.C.'s delegation to the National Poetry Slam has brought home the gold.Link!
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from GotPoetry.com NewsCanton native, novelist, poet and professor Fred Chappell will read from his newest book of poetry at Blue Ridge Books on Sunday, August 24, at 3:00 pm.Link!
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Whatever
Here they are! (crickets chirping) Which is to say I am at neither. I was thinking of dropping in at GenCon on Friday but it doesn’t look like my schedule is going to allow that. I’m at home writing instead. Because, occasion...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Whatever
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from - Books RSS FeedA clue to the twists and turns which will be revealed in the next series of Broadchurch has been inserted in a new book accompanying the award-winning drama.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Book Portal Site
More and more women are reading and writing crime fiction, and the fiction they read is getting more violent. Where does this appetite come from? And how is the role of the female victim in crime fiction changing? Day 6 investigates. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Book Portal SiteFuture Library, Katie Paterson from Katie Paterson on Vimeo. It often takes a long time to publish a book, but some writers are willing to wait 100 years to see their book in print (possibly with the help of...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
“Is Race Plastic?” the cover of New York Magazine asked last week. In “ … Read More
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
Here at Flavorwire, we are Very Serious About Books — but that doesn’t mean we’re above a cheerful giggle now and then, and we were provided with such by these animated GIFs of illustration from the very old and very serious ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Dear Author
A Bad Day for Romance by Sophie Littlefield. $ .99 From the Jacket Copy: That’s no cupid, it’s a bridesmaid with a crossbow. Stella Hardesty is a seamstress with a sideline job in vigilante justice in this entertaining ebook in... ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from The New York Review of BooksTim Parks “Frankly, I don’t mind what they’re reading, Twilight , Harry Potter , whatever. So long as they are reading something there’s at least a chance that one day they’ll move on to something better.” How many times have we heard th...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Book Patrol
Carl Solomon, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs at the Gotham Book Mart, New York City, 1977 Calling all tour guides… The latest New York-centric map from Constantine Valhouli features the haunts, hangouts and re... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Flavorwire » Books
“The adventure of thought and the sensuality of ideas,” is what interested director and legend Martin Scorsese about the idea of documenting … Read More
