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Sep.24.2012
A Thunderous Whisper (by Christina Diaz Gonzalez) is a wonderful coming of age and thought provoking story that captures the reader’s attention from page one with its quiet protagonist Ani whose uneventful life is a time bomb waiting to explode.
“Insignificant whispers in a loud world” describes...
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Jun.11.2011
The Second Son, by Jonathan Rabb
If I were to imagine a book with a dose of Raymond Chandler, sprinkled liberally with Hemingway and seasoned lightly with Joseph Conrad and the Bible, it would be Rabb’s The Second Son. This, the third of a trilogy Rabb has written, takes place in Germany and...
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Aug.07.2010
I had hoped this one would be easy, given the quote's context, and apparently it was.
The answer? Ernest Hemingway's great book, "A Farewell To Arms."
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Dec.09.2008
In the early 1930s Lou and a few of his friends from Boys High in Brooklyn founded what they called the "Social Issues Club." For them it was intened to be a means to help the many people living around them that were fast becoming victims of the Great Depression--people who were suffering...
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Dec.05.2008
When I was a newspaper reporter in Derry, NH, I used to have the devil of a time writing the introductory paragraph to my news stories (these are commonly called ledes). These ledes have to sum up the story in two sentences as well as do it in a way that impels and compels the reader to read the...
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Dec.02.2008
It doesn't really matter if the economy is strong or in tatters as it currently is, the challenge and importance of writing a very good query letter are always the same. If you can't catch the eye of an agent or publisher your writing is simply going nowhere.
For me, I obsess over nearly every...
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Nov.18.2008
I am working on a book about the American volunteers that fought on the side of the Spanish government against the Nazis and fascists in the Spanish Civil War and am having trouble deciding how to write the book. I have a vision for what I want the book to accomplish, sort of the strategic side of...
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Oct.08.2008
War and cameras have often reflected each other.
When I saw the first few photos in Gerda Taro's exhibit earlier this year at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan -- and viewing them again in the book Gerda Taro, recently published by ICP -- I was especially taken by one that is...
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Sep.06.2008
A portion of Toros & Torsos takes place in Spain early in 1937 as Hector Lassiter joins Ernest Hemingway and novelist John Dos Passos in Madrid during the early days of the Spanish Civil War.
In T&T, Hector has gone to Spain as a favor to Pauline Hemingway — agreeing to watch over a...
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Aug.02.2008
Even though it’s 2008, we might as well be living in 1984 - the novel, not the year.
What better way to acknowledge that fact than to honor the author who brought us such a prescient novel. The “beeb” (BBC) has posted recordings of Eric Blair’s adopted son, Richard, reading from his father’s...
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