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Jul.10.2011
A break from all the research I've been doing on my western novel. Get my nose out of books and find me something else creative to do with myself.
Which is why God created Garageband.
It's the greatest invention for frustrated musicians since...well...forever. I've created hours of ambient music...
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Jul.06.2011
I have written historical novels set in real places dealing (sometimes) with real people. In dealing with Kafka, and following him in real time day-by-day in his diaries, I was exceedingly careful to depict nothing which could not have happened. However, in the historical work of others, mistakes...
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Jun.28.2011
How to Search the Invisible Web
If you limit your Internet research to a general search engine, such as Google, it is the same thing as limiting your research to just one book.
You wouldn't do that, so why limit your Internet search.
There are many more "books" available online that...
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Jun.21.2011
Major project to digitise up to 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution to the end of slavery
The British Library and Google to make 250,000 books available to all
The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books...
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Jun.09.2011
With the release of my new novel, JERUSALEM MAIDEN, Red Room is featuring my original article, "Tunneling Under Jerusalem," the extensive research I had conducted for this novel, a project that took me from New York to Jerusalem, and then surprisingly, to Paris.
I purposely chose to...
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Jun.07.2011
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Tim Roth and Gary Oldman
Oh, to have the time. This is the type of thing which fascinates me about books and plays and movies, yet I have not the time (nor, I suspect, the ability) to search out such things for myself. How many insects are there in Kafka? I do...
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May.26.2011
You ever see those action scene where everyone stops and the only one moving is the main character because he is going faster than everyone else? Well, I am having one of those moments. I can barely keep up with myself. Life is beyond hectic. Finished another novel and am wraping it up to send to...
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May.22.2011
New York Public Library Launches iPad AppBy FELICIA LEE
Here an app, there an app, everywhere an apt app. Now, the New York Public Library has created a new iPad app that bring the library’s research collections into “the palms of the public’s hand,” as library officials put it in a statement...
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May.18.2011
Crime novelists generally write a novel a year. It’s what publishers want. Some big writers—and I mean, 25 million books sold—have told me their publishers and agents complain that if they don’t produce a book a year their readers will forget them.
In the case of such writers, some of those 25...
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May.05.2011
If you haven't read yesterday's post, which is Part 1, scroll down. I'll wait.
One observation I forgot to stick in with traffic stops yesterday. The deputies have radar gizmos that they can point either in front or behind their vehicles, so they know how fast other cars are going. In most...
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