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“Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed?
Surely there is enough happiness in life without having...
to go to books for it.” -Dorothy Parker . . .
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Thursday Quote of the Night
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Linda Glaser explains the rites to the short
pants and picture book set in, HOPPY HANUKKAH ....
Prolific book reviewer Dave Wood posts his bound and lettered holiday gift recommendations. Eat Me Daily (dot com) looks at Julie Powell’s, CLEAVING: A STORY OF MARRIAGE, MEAT, AND OBSESSION ...
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Thursday Evening Book Reviews
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Take a stroll through the peculiar world of
literary pets with Chet Phillips. ( Vol. 1 Brooklyn...
) Christie’s experts say a rare copy of Poe’s Tamerlane and Other Poems may fetch up to $700,000 at auction tomorrow. ( AP ) Is Twitter a tool for selling books, or are writers ...
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Thursday Morning LitLinks
authorscoop.com - 29 hours ago
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“As regards plot I find real life no
help at all. Real life seems to have no...
plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.” -Ivy Compton-Burnett . . .
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Wednesday Quote of the Night
authorscoop.com - 31 hours ago
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David Plotz did the Old Testament in, GOOD
BOOK. Now, novelist Mary Gordon, gives a laywriter’s take...
on the biblical account of Jesus in, READING JESUS: A WRITER’S ENCOUNTER WITH THE GOSPELS . Fifth grader, Mitchell Pelissier, discovers the wonders of Jean Craighead ...
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Wednesday Evening Book Reviews
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Susie Deford chats it up with “poetry rock
star” Eileen Myles. ( The Rumpus ) New research...
suggests Jane Austen may have died from TB (though had that not killed her, this most assuredly would have ). ( AFP ) Carolyn Kellogg takes a ride on the bumpy road of Rick ...
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Wednesday Morning LitLinks
authorscoop.com - 2 days ago
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“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice,
and happiness, which are everything in this world.” -...
Blaise Pascal . . .
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Tuesday Quote of the Night
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Dwight Garner of the New York Times finds
little to excite him in E Street sax blower...
Clarence Clemons’ memoir, Big Man . The Star Tribune’s Andrea Hoag praises Judith Koll Healey’s The Canterbury Papers sequel, The Rebel Princess . Jack Goodstein over at Blogcritics finds ...
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Tuesday Evening Book Reviews
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From the YouTube description: 60 Writers/60 Places, a
film by Luca Dipierro and Michael Kimball, is about...
writers and their writing occupying untraditional spaces, everyday life, everywhere. It begins with the idea of the tableaux vivant, a living picture where the camera never moves, but the ...
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Afternoon Viewing: “60 Writers/60 Places” Trailer
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Jonathan Littell takes the seventeenth annual Bad Sex
in Fiction award for The Kindly Ones . (...
Literary Review ) Sam Jones finds “a surprising number of authors” still committed to writing on typewriters. ( Guardian Books Blog ) Edward Rothstein surveys the events to ...
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Tuesday Morning LitLinks
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“All books are either dreams or swords. You
can cut, or you can drug, with words.” -Amy...
Lowell . . .
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Monday Quote of the Night
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Eight hundred-odd years of the art of written
correspondence is examined to good result by Thomas Mallon...
in, YOURS EVER: PEOPLE AND THEIR LETTERS . Nevermind that football is in full swing, and banish hockey from your thoughts, sports fans. Bill Simmons winds up the devotees of the orange ...
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Monday Evening Book Reviews
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From the Barnes & Noble “Tagged” description: Molly
welcomes Sue Grafton to the Studio to talk about...
her latest thrilling read, U is for Undertow :
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Afternoon Viewing: Sue Grafton
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Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco wins the Cervantes
Prize. ( Monsters and Critics ) Tamara Moore chats...
it up with cyberpunk Richard Kadrey. ( The Rumpus ) TV and film writer Andrew Davies is honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain. ( BBC ) ...
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Monday Morning LitLinks
authorscoop.com - 4 days ago
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“Writing is not a job description. A great
deal of it is luck. Don’t do it if...
you are not a gambler because a lot of people devote many years of their lives to it (for little reward). I think people become writers because they are compulsive wordsmiths.” -Margaret Atwood ...
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Sunday Quote of the Night
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Arnold Snyder organizes the tips that could make
you a winner in, THE POKER TOURNAMENT FORMULA II...
. An ode to the U.S. and Scotland, Craig Ferguson’s, AMERICAN ON PURPOSE , warmly traces the comedian’s journey, thus far. The Daily Kos reminds me that I’d quite like to read ...
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Sunday Evening Book Reviews
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From the BloomsburyPublishing YouTube description: The successful novelist
Jon McGregor talks about the writing process and shares...
his advice for those seeking a publishing deal:
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Afternoon Viewing: Jon McGregor
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Alice Munro shares an excerpt from Too Much
Happiness. ( NYTimes ) New contributor on the block...
over at LitKicks Garrett Kenyon starts off strong, with an examination of ‘Five Modern Masters of Mystery and Crime’. ( LitKicks ) Rachel Cooke says that Borders’ demise might ...
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Sunday Morning LitLinks
