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With no apologies to Eliot.
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A new Google Maps tool from PM. "We will deploy this rich database in many ways: Here, as a trade resource (for sales, publicity, and marketing); at publishers' sites and on consumer sites as a comprehensive, up-to-date store finder; and in a variety of customized ways (ask us about individualized author tour maps, sales/publicity database features, and more at maps@publishersmarketplace.com.)"
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The books they left behind: "The thwarted aspirations of the man who discarded both The Kama Sutra for Dummies and How To Be a Gentleman in Seven Days in a Southampton hotel room can only be imagined, but sex manuals were just the tip of the reject pile in budget hotels this summer…."
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We've reached the end of the Internet. So…read any good books lately?
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A brief appreciation of Virginia writer Joe Bageant.
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"What Is This?
An almost-real-time, behind-the-scenes look at the assigning, writing, editing, and designing of a Wired feature. You can see more about the design process on Wired creative director Scott Dadich's SPD blog, The Process. This is a one-time experiment, tied solely to the Charlie Kaufman profile scheduled to run in our November 08 issue." O, what riches! Tip of the hat to VQR blog for posting about this. -
"…More important, book groups are creating new readers. People usually join a book group for social reasons, but reading a book is part of the deal, and so a reader is created out of someone who wasn’t one before.
But the news is not all good…."
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Books Mayor Palin wanted to ban from her town's library include:
"A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Anything by Stephen King
Everything by J.K. Rowling
Most of William Shakespeare's work
and my personal favorite
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff" -
Sept/Oct/Nov 2008 issue is out and up!
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Writer's block and how to block it.
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