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Welcome to The Writer' s revamped Web site and staff blog. We're excited about the changes and hope you are, too. We trust that you'll find what you're looking for faster with our improved navigation bar at the top of the page. Under the...
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Next week, you'll see a big change in WriterMag.com. With the invaluable help of our online and art departments here at Kalmbach, we'll be launching a new look for the Web site and a new set-up for the forums! The Web site will be much easier...
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If you love traveling and have been tempted to write a travel article before, now's your chance. Heritage magazine, devoted to historic travel in Britain, is looking for previously unpublished first-hand accounts of travel experiences around Britain...
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The death of novelist Robert B. Parker this week leaves a sizeable hole in the suspense-fiction genre, so great was his influence and popularity. For me there was a time when devouring his latest Spenser installment was one of many reasons to look forward...
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I don't pay much attention to the Golden Globes or other film awards. While I love movies, my interests tend to be a bit esoteric: French, Spanish and Italian films; some Latin American films; and U.S. classics from the '30s and '40s. (So...
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"Do I love books or do I love reading?" That question, posed by Ann Kirschner in a June 2 article on The Chronicle of Higher Education Web site , is something that those of us who are used to reading actual books may have to ponder in the next...
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Earlier this week I read in The Paris Review a fascinating interview with Mary Karr, author of the bestselling and critically praised memoirs The Liars' Club, Cherry and, most recently, Lit . Susan Cheever called Karr's latest "the best book...
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ince The New Yorker 's Malcolm Gladwell is a clever fellow, I figured a glowing book recommendation from him might be worth checking out. I recently came across a Q&A with him at Oprah.com in which he said his favorite book of 2009 was the historical...
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As we all know, the print media has taken a beating lately: newspapers and magazines have slashed jobs, trimmed budgets, cut back on page counts, migrated content to the Internet and, in some cases, closed shop. What does this mean for the well-written...
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I like to make New Year's recommitments. Yes, that's the elegant way of saying I'm trying to keep the same resolutions year after year. I'll recommit to being healthier; to getting to bed earlier (I know right now that's never going...
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I stopped at Hallmark the other night to buy birthday cards, and I did something that fewer and fewer of us in the digital age do: I bought an address book. (No, I don't have a BlackBerry.) My new address book has a cushy cover with a stitched floral...
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Happy new year to all. Given that so many of The Writer 's readers are bookworms, I suspect that Santa tumbled pell-mell down a few chimneys and arrived with a big clump thanks to all the books he was carrying. I received a couple doorstops myself...
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On the day that Google unveiled Nexus One, the long-awaited smartphone that's positioned to take on Apple's iPhone, and Hearst talked up its Skiff Reader for print publications, speculation is running rampant on Apple's next big thing: the...
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