Shelf Awareness: Bookshops make a city cool "A good way to judge whether a city has the desired level of 'coolness' is to look at its bookshops. If there is more than one bookshop selling books in foreign languages on an extensive range of topics, from cookery to philosophy, if one can find what one [...]
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Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » 6 tricks for writing when you don’t feel like it 'How do you work when you really don’t feel like it, when you are tired or grumpy or slightly under the weather? It’s easy to say, “Sit down and write,” but it’s not psychologically satisfying. There’s no map to [...]
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Would You Like To Read The Adderall Diaries? – The Rumpus.net "I’m offering to loan people copies of my forthcoming true-crime memoir, The Adderall Diaries. The book will be published in September, but if you send an email to adderall@therumpus.net I might send you an advance copy. Here’s the hitch, if I mail you a [...]
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From The Rumpus: A new literary magazine out of DC – When in Rome: DC Lit Mag Launched Posted using ShareThis
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1. The Online Writer (part 1 and 2) is a follow-up to Kristen King’s popular offering from January. The new format offers much more time for content and more hands-on and individual attention. Sign up for just part one or both parts one and two. In Part 1 of the two-part Online Writer series, copywriter [...]
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Monday 23 July 1666 (Pepys' Diary) "Up, and to my chamber doing several things there of moment, and then comes Sympson, the Joyner; and he and I with great pains contriving presses to put my books up in: they now growing numerous, and lying one upon another on my chairs, I lose the use to [...]
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The Hook News Blog » Blog Archive » New Straka book out in September "Earlysville falconer/Shamus Award-winning writer Andy Straka has a new mystery ready for release September 1, the fourth in his Frank Pavlicek series. Kitty Thriller takes Virginia-based falconer/P.I. Pavlicek to New York to discover if a cat was taken out by a [...]
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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version | vanityfair.com "If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, Wayne Lawson, together with representatives from the research and copy departments, [...]
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Wednesday July 29th | 7:30 doors | $5 All Ages WORDSMITH POETRY JAM hosted by BLACK VIOLET w/ DJ A 1 K Poets advance sign up via email: wordsmithpoetryinc@gmail.com Hosting its 5th poetry jam. Ebony “Black Violet” Walden will be the lovely emcee with DJ Double A 1 K on the 1′s & 2′s. Audiences [...]
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BiblioBuffet – Writing Worth Reading, Reading Worth Writing About – “Reader, Beware!” 07/19/09 "…what stinks about The Reader is how it attempts to manipulate readers, and how it distorts history. That’s particularly dangerous given that truths about the Holocaust are under persistent assault by the Denial Industry—when they’re not in fact misunderstood." Does a Moleskine [...]
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The Window Of Possessive Titles – The Rumpus.net "Why are possessives so popular in novel titles? Why, for instance, are there so many books titled along the same lines as The Memory Keeper’s Daughter or The Bone-Setter’s Daughter? The Time-Traveller’s Wife or The Astronaut’s Wife? Flaubert’s Parrot, Correlli’s Mandolin, and Wittgenstein’s Poker?" Care to take [...]
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