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Dec.13.2010
As 2010 turns into a bent shriveled old man, and 2011 prepares to be contracted out of the universe’s uterus, I’m filled with a profound sense of gratitude and happiness that I am not yet dead. Yes, it's true, 2010 saw George Bush and Justin Bieber join Paris Hilton in the rank of best-selling...
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Dec.11.2010
The year my hero’s diedThis year quite a few of my heroes and friends died: Howard Lester, Walter Shorenstein, Dodie Rosecrans, Dick Goldman, and on and on. Yes, it is true that for the most part their lives were long and fulfilled but I still miss them and always will. I wonder if we are creating...
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Nov.10.2010
One day in the early 1950s my childhood buddy Ann Webb fixed me up with a blind date -- mainly so I could meet her new and very serious boyfriend/soon-to-be husband, who turned out to be Charley McDowell. From then until he died last week, Charley was at the top of my favorite-people list. He is,...
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Oct.16.2010
Eleven million books in print, which have been translated into 37 languages and sold in 50 countries, that is the literary status of “Steve Berry” my guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat”. His novels have earned spots on The New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and BookSense bestseller...
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Sep.27.2010
If you have any intention of traveling to China, then don’t tell anyone working at the Chinese consulate that you’re a writer.
That’s the lesson I learned when I went on a vacation earlier this month to Shanghai to tour the World Expo. A visa is required to enter China as a U.S. citizen. I was not...
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Sep.20.2010
One of those rare occasions, one in which each of the half dozen or so writers present [at Lucy Day's, 9.11.2010] attends fully to the work being read by each of the others. Each of us, so it seems to me, is fully and entirely engaged, our poems, such as they are, our offerings, fully "heard...
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Sep.18.2010
TRANSITIONS Funny you should ask. Just this week I subscribed to the New York Times. I am headed for retirement and thought I would have time to read it. Plus it offered 50% off. The Chronicle, sports aside, takes me, oh... 10 minutes? The Times, which does not deliver even one of...
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Jul.16.2010
World Cup fans, don’t fear hours of emptiness. Take up a work by an international crime fiction author. It’s the perfect replacement for your lost fix – and it’s a lot better for your soul, too.Here’s why. As the World Cup unfolded over the last month, newspapers all over the globe were filled with...
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Jul.11.2010
If you're not aware of the digital publishing revolution, you've been living under a rock. But - as this article indicates - digital-ism is having effects on print other than a simply economic one. And this may be news to you.
When Mark Z. Danielewski's second novel, "Only Revolutions,...
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Jul.09.2010
I think it was Will Rogers, the homespun comedian, columnist and actor, who is probably unknown to most people under seventy, who once said something like “If a pipe was attached to congress you would have enough hot air to heat every home in America.”
If you attached a pipe to the...
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