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Feb.06.2013
Goblin Secrets William Alexander middle grade
It's been a while since I've really sunk by teeth into the craft of a book, partly because I listen to so many audio books and it really is a different experience. However, I read Goblin Secrets out loud to my eleven year-old. It was our evening...
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Nov.15.2012
Literature often speaks louder than military or political strengths or the press' muscle, and Louise Erdrich's new novel, "The Round House," speaks to the ways of Native Americans, a submerged minority we often hear little about.
Louise Erdrich
Congratulations to Erdrich, a Native American, for...
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Oct.20.2012
I'm always leery of lists coming from commercial ventures like Huffpo, but the ones linked below do look interesting, and with a lot of lesser known names...and that's a good thing!
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Jan.29.2012
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Salvage The Bones, by Jesmyn Ward
I don’t remember why I bought this book. It probably wasn’t that it won the National Book Award for 2011; more likely that it’s about the Mississippi coast in the time prior to Hurricane Katrina. I have...
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Jan.07.2012
Three more days until the end of the Preditors & Editors annual poll for the best of the best -- or at least the best of who knows about the site and nominates themselves or someone else's books, stories, articles, art work, and all things publishing online. What it really comes down to is...
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Dec.14.2011
Traditional publishers are being forced pay closer attention to the gathering swarms of Kindles, iDevices, and Androids. These days fewer patrician publishers park their paunches atop the slush piles of the rejected and the ignored, the four martini lunch has been sucker-punched by Google search...
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Oct.17.2011
As you may or may not know, Lauren Myracle's novel Shine was named a finalist for a National Book Award in young adult literature... and then just as quickly un-named. It turned out the foundation had erred, and instead of keeping her novel on the list, asked her to withdraw it. She...
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Jan.19.2011
Book: Just Kids
Author: Patti Smith
Reading about the early life of Hall of Fame rocker and poetess, Patti Smith, and her hard-knock foray into the underground music and arts movement of the 1970s was much like watching a sprouting seed blossom and mature under the soft glow of life-giving sun.
If...
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Nov.21.2010
After I waxed cynical about Patti Smith's book, Just Kids, I remembered that such cynicism has often come back to me as a lesson learned, so I've just bought the book and am in the progress of reading it.
More on that later, but publishing this link, which includes a reading from the book by Patti...
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Nov.18.2010
It's a positive that Jaimy Gordon's The Lord Of Misrule has won the award for fiction. Less so, I think, that Patti Smith's Just Kids, a memoir of her crazy bohemian years spent with Robert Mapplethorpe won for non-fiction.
Gordon's book draws my initial praise because it's the product of another...
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