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I’m one of those people who can’t read a book without buying it, even when I can’t or shouldn’t afford it. I may skimp on other things, but not books. There’s something indescribably special about owning each book you’ve...
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Can I sit still long enough to read a book? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself over the past few months as I’ve been feverishly e-mailing and Facebooking and reading Twitter tweets and scanning Internet news and watching YouTube...
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Yesterday evening I heard on NPR that the Museum of Modern Art acquired the @ symbol for its collection. According to the story, the museum plans to include a history of @ and its “rediscovery” by Ray Tomlinson, who first used the symbol to...
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With Wallace Stegner's great novel much on my mind lately, I'll shortly be off to re-find, re-set, my "angle of repose" (otherwise known as a one-week vacation). Stegner's is one of the best literary (and most psychologically useful...
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My mom reads more nonfiction than fiction, but she’s always waiting for the next Patricia Cornwell novel. Or at least it seems that way to me. Even though she knows to expect a new Kay Scarpetta book nearly every year, she often asks me if I know...
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How often is it that even voracious readers encounter an experience with the printed word that makes them think, not even halfway through a book, “This is special; this is something to be savored.” Perhaps a half-dozen times a year? This has...
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The Writer , along with Gotham Writers’ Workshop , is a partner in the upcoming Self-Publishing Book Expo in New York this fall. Watch our Web site for more details as they become available. The Writer and Gotham are also sponsors of this year’s...
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I was listening to the audio book version of Lee Child’s Die Trying last night when I came to the startling realization that I was listening to slow-motion action. That doesn’t sound like much of a revelation when I write it, but consider...
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Entertainment Weekly has a short piece on John Edgar Wideman’s upcoming story collection, Briefs: Stories for the Palm of the Mind , which is being self-published and sold on Lulu . This is notable, of course, because Wideman is a long-established...
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Yesterday, an article on PublishersWeekly.com announced that Barnes & Noble is planning to test a new sales idea: they're going to sell the print version of a book with the option to purchase an e-book version of it at a discount. But I couldn't...
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The other day I was working on the first round of edits for Marilyn Taylor ’s next Poet to Poet column. She begins the piece by saying that she often receives clueless remarks from people she meets once they find out she writes poetry. For example...
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I’ll add one more mention to the recent burst of coverage about esteemed film critic Roger Ebert , whom my colleague Jeff Reich blogged about on Feb. 16. (Ebert, who has lost his lower jaw, his speech, and his ability to eat and smell to thyroid...
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I’m happy to announce that The Write r will have a presence at this year’s BookExpo , the publishing industry’s biggest event, May 24-27 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York. We’re sharing an exhibit booth on the main floor...
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