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nytimes.com - 7 hours ago
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Could book publishers suddenly be in the position
of telling Google what to do? With the impending...
arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control ...
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Publishers Gain Leverage in E-Book Negotiations With Google
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takimag.com - 4 hours ago
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“It was a dark and stormy night, but
we were young and thought we could do anything....
There was no looking back. None of that David Copperfield kind of nonsense. We were already men. We had our finger on what was going on between self and culture. We ...
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My Affair With JD Salinger
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Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
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guardian.co.uk - 4 hours ago
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Socialite journalist Taki says that he has hundreds
of letters from JD Salinger It's tacky, for sure....
But then it comes from Taki . The revelation that the Spectator's society commentator had a personal (in every sense) correspondence with JD Salinger is causing consternation around literary ...
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How tall are Taki's tales about Salinger?
mcsweeneys.net - 4 days ago
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- - - - Back in 1998, for
a journal I was planning to put out, I...
started collecting fiction, essays and experiments that couldn't find a publisher elsewhere. Because the journal consisted of work that didn't fit in mainstream publishing, I decided to ...
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Real Timothy McSweeney.
mcsweeneys.net - 4 days ago
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A MESSAGE TO OUR READERS ABOUT THE REAL
TIMOTHY McSWEENEY. - - - - Readers of this...
site and of McSweeney's generally may be aware that this enterprise was named after a real man named Timothy McSweeney. The story of Mr. McSweeney can be read here . We ...
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A Message to Our Readers ...
guardian.co.uk - 7 hours ago
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Writing in a warm room is hard enough,
let alone when you've no food or money. No...
wonder there is so little authentic literature of the homeless I used to see a homeless man perched on a curb out the back of Safeway in Camberwell. Although it looked as if he hadn't had a bath or a square meal ...
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Does literature of the homeless exist?
epolitix.com - 7 hours ago
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LONDON 14 May 2009 – On Wednesday evening,
13 May 2009, leading homelessness organisations joined members of...
the library sector at the British Library to celebrate the official launch of Outside Story, a pilot project to improve access to reading, ...
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Opening Library Doors: Homeless People Welcomed in ...
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Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
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darkscribemagazine.com - 6 hours ago
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Recognizing that the professional writing fields that fall
under the umbrella of dark genre literature need a...
dedicated media voice, Dark Scribe Press proudly presents Dark Scribe Magazine as the premiere publication under its new small press banner. ...
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Dark Scribe Magazine
guardian.co.uk - 4 hours ago
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Last Monday at 8.30am I began to type
the first lines of a new novel. These sentences...
are unlikely to see the light of day but they're a start – I am out on the pitch swinging my arm in a fashion that convinces me at least, which is certainly an ...
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As I start to write my latest book, I fear for the ...
paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com - 15 hours ago
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Regular visitors to my blog will know that
I am guilty of blogging far too much! Already...
this year I written about 15 blog posts in 8 days - I just can't help myself. On the weekend Marg at Reading Adventures passed on to me a Prolific Blogger Award. Receiving this award means: A ...
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What, Me Prolific??
publishersweekly.com - 6 hours ago
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-- Publishers Weekly, 2/8/2010 7:15:00 AM After running
out of stock on the Nook e-reader shortly after...
its launch this past holiday season, Barnes & Noble said this morning that the device is back in-stock online and that it will be shipping Nooks ...
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The Nook Headed to Barnes & Noble Stores
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Poets & Writers - From Inspiration to Publication
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mhpbooks.com - 6 hours ago
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Well, at long last the war between Amazon
and Macmillan is kind of sorta for the most...
part just about pretty much over. While some sort of agreement seems to have been reached, once again in the low visibility of the weeken hours (and as per ...
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Amazon sort of admits defeat … in the dead of night
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 4 hours ago
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Is this the best way to listen to
an author read from their work? Neal Pollack, who...
mostly writes comedic memoirs, will find out soon. He's set up to a read at a yoga class in Los Angeles on Thursday night. Pollack, a former devotee of ...
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Want a reading with your downward-facing dog?
independent.co.uk - 6 hours ago
blog.nathanbransford.com - 6 hours ago
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This one falls into the "Yes, it needs
to be said" category. I know 99% of you...
wouldn't think of doing this, but hopefully this will reach the other 1%. We had a bit of an incident the other day here at Curtis Brown San Francisco as someone came to ...
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Drop-Ins Not Allowed
ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Carlo Farneti's illustrations for a 1935 edition of
Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal From the collection of...
Richard Sica I can't find much information about Carneti. Art & Popular Culture gives this ...
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Les Fleurs du Skull
judgeabook.blogspot.com - 114 minutes ago
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This has to be the funniest title I've
seen in a long time. I imagine that to...
male readers, it's also quite frightening. You're curious what it's about, aren't you? Admit it. You are. Ok, here's part of a review on Amazon.com: Imagine a world without men where the only way a woman can ...
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Um, what??
