Viva La Feminista: Book Review – Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God! “But what is funny is Jen’s ability to not only skewer those of the political persuasion, but also our own activities in this crazy thing called life.” cvilleMUSE » Blog Archive » A Mixed Reading: The Poetry Series “Instead of creating a mix [...]
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Ira Glass on creative excellence (HT Open Culture):
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Bowker, the global leader in bibliographic information management, today released statistics on U.S. book publishing for 2007, compiled from its Books In Print® database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that U.S. title output in 2007 increased slightly to 276,649 new titles and editions, up from the 274,416 that were published [...]
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Mill Valley’s Molarsky is still writing at 98 “But it wasn’t until last year that the 98-year-old Mill Valley resident wrote his first novel, a contemporary political satire called “The Noah Hour.” Yeah, unfortunately, all the agents want is “chick-lit.” Riiiiight. Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “The blink [...]
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From Charlie’s Diary: Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%. If we take $20Bn as the cost per mission and $450Bn as the cost to develop the technology to go there, the direct cost of the Iraq war [...]
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Filming ‘The Road’ – At the End of the World, Honing the Father-Son Dynamic – NYTimes.com “What’s moving and shocking about McCarthy’s book is that it’s so believable,” Mr. Hillcoat said. “So what we wanted is a kind of heightened realism, as opposed to the ‘Mad Max’ thing, which is all about high concept and [...]
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The Hook News Blog » Blog Archive » Farewell, George Garrett I wish I had known this man. In Praise of Book Clubs « Books on the Brain Now up to 12 installments — everything you want to know about book clubs. LibraryThing: LibraryThing recommendations! At a loss for something to read? “LibraryThing Recommendations—called “the [...]
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Kirsten Ogden at KR Blog asks, “What do writers do in Writing Workshops, and how do writers know how to do it?” Good question! Ogden describes several different workshops she’s been part of, good and bad, and shares some resources she’s found. Such as: I did find a few helpful essays inside of books, such [...]
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A thriller in ten chapters | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books “To be a writer in the English language today is to be one of the luckiest people alive.” NASA – Phoenix Photos from Phoenix lander on Mars
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I have Rick Sincere to thank for alerting me to this gem of a movie, now playing at the downtown Regal, about Hitler’s attempts to appropriate or destroy all the great artworks of Europe. His plans for seizing major works of art were begun before the invasion of Poland, and the plunder and destruction were [...]
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