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Dec.12.2012
A new HuffPost piece by me, about the end of the letter as a vital literary genre, and its replacement by...well, something else.
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Dec.10.2012
by Anne M. Marble
"What happened to the word 'said'?" the editor shrieked as she read the manuscripts in the slush pile.
Today, a lot of authors think that the word "said" is boring. So they decide to substitute it with lots of different and exciting verbs. For example, right in the...
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Dec.03.2012
by Sam McNerney on July 10, 2012.
“How do Americans spend their leisure time?” That question was posed by Yale psychologist Paul Bloom in his 2010 book How Pleasure Works. The answer, Bloom says, is “participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want...
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Dec.02.2012
I have a number of signed mint copies of The Sacred Hoop, published in 1979 by Sierra Club Books for sale through this web site. The book includes illustrations and was designed by the late James Robertson of Yolla Bolly Press, a design that won awards. Please contact me through Red...
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Nov.26.2012
Warren Adler Author
Stick out your tongue and you will get some idea of what has been happening in the book business. Ten thousand taste buds combined with various chemical reactions elsewhere in the body send taste signals to your brain.
With the tsunami of e-books where...
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Nov.25.2012
I think I'm up on techie things, but I'm sometimes a little slow to see their complete worth. My four year-old iPod touch had been worn out by use and abuse, and I recently bought a new one, the 5G version.
iPod 5G
I had bought the old one principally to listen to music (I had digitized all my...
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Nov.22.2012
With my birthday coming up, I was feeling lonesome and particularly lonesome for my sons, so I got out my firstborn's first toy, a clown, with no name, as far as I remember. What a sweet face it has! My son used to suck on his nose.
You see, as I was going through the Nicholson Letters to...
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Nov.19.2012
Lisa Jardine and Annie Watkins
The Guardian, Wednesday 5 April 2006
When Lisa Jardine and Annie Watkins asked women which book had helped them most during their lives, the clear winner was Jane Eyre, with Pride and Prejudice not too far behind. When they repeated...
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Nov.17.2012
The crux of this article makes its title something of a misnomer. The real issue is: Will the tech giants, such as Amazon and Apple, ignore the innovations of those scrabbling about in their wake - and eventually damage the U.S. economy?
image via NY Times
NYTimes
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Nov.12.2012
By Suzette Francis
My first novel, Rules for A Pretty Woman, was published by Avon in 2003 and winner of the Romantic Times Multi-cultural award that same year. My second novel, Hello, Goodbye Again was self published in 2011.
There are many reasons why I decided to self-...
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