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Nov.23.2009
Clip from a keynote speech, "To Dance With Language," at The Houston Club, benefiting the English-Speaking Union (November 12, 2009).
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Nov.05.2009
Author Larry Smith adds images from the Ohio River Valley to his brief reading from The Long River Home from the Working Lives Series of Bottom Dog Press: A Book Trailer
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Sep.24.2009
Author Mary Beth Temple does a live reading at Lion Brand Studio in NYC. The piece is from the book Hooked for Life: Adventures of a Crochet Zealot, and is called Ten Things Crocheters Would Like to Say to the Rest of the World, but More Times are Far Too Polite To.
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Sep.21.2009
Once a child laborer who trekked with his impoverished family from Mexico to the fields of California to pick strawberries and cucumbers, Jose M. Hernandez recently traveled into space as an astronaut on the Discovery space shuttle. His story honors both the desperate struggle of immigrants and the...
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Sep.12.2009
Click here for the interview: http://www.ericbarnes.net/video/ericbarnes-booktalk-wypl/index.html
An interview with Eric Barnes on BookTalk, hosted by Stephen Usery. "...a sheen of elegance and terror; one is reminded, in Barnes' language and locution, of Don DeLillo's scalpel-sharp delineation of...
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Sep.08.2009
Eric Barnes interviewed on BookTalk, with host Stephen Usery. Eric is the writer of Shimmer, an IndieNext pick, published by Unbridled Books.
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Aug.23.2009
The inspiration behind THE SUFFOCATING SEA
“A foggy night in November, the smell of burning, the lapping of the sea on to the shore all conspired to bring this novel to life. The blue pulsating light of a fire engine in the dark night, and the throbbing of its pump, and soon I had a body on a...
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Aug.17.2009
An interview with Eric Barnes, author of the novel Shimmer. Shimmer, an IndieNext pick, published by Unbridled Books. Eric talks about writing, getting published, and the long wait to see a book in print. Shimmer is a quiet and intense novel about ponzi schemes, high tech and the people and friends...
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Aug.08.2009
The book trailer for the novel Shimmer, an IndieNext pick, written by Eric Barnes. "...a sheen of elegance and terror; one is reminded, in Barnes' language and locution, of Don DeLillo's scalpel-sharp delineation of American corporate culture and paranoia, and of David Foster Wallace's penetration...
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Aug.03.2009
Confessions of a Loyal Librarian
Redroom.com presents exclusive video of John Y. Cole, a historian of the Library of Congress and founding director of its Center for the Book. John has worked at the Library of Congress for more than 44 years. He will enlighten and amuse you with stories (like the...
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