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I finally broke down and bought a Nook Color e-reader. Not because I needed it, but because I was getting tired of feeling left out. I wanted to know what everybody has been talking about. Plus, when Kalmbach Publishing made The Writer available on the...
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Last night I went to my local independent bookstore, Boswell Book Company, to hear Ann Patchett read from her latest novel, State of Wonder, and eager readers packed the event space. I happened to be among the audience members who were standing, and I...
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Sometimes the basic premise of a novel (let alone the title) seems irresistible, before you’ve even read a word of the story. That was my reaction this week when some publicity came in on Eric D. Goodman's debut novel in stories, Tracks , releasing...
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Summer means beach reads and blockbuster movies. Hollywood adapts many books for film, of course. So far this year, we could have headed to the theater to catch Jane Eyre, Something Borrowed, Water for Elephants and Everything Must Go (based on Raymond...
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Following up on my June 1 st blog, here’s some more word play from that list that’s floating around in cyberspace. Seems like somebody ought to get credit for this bit of cleverness, but I’m told the author is unknown. (And thanks again...
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Recently, one of my book-club friends won an author phone chat with Jennifer Egan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad . Though our group has been meeting for several years, we hadn’t hosted an author—in person...
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You may have already seen the following list floating around the Internet, but a colleague of mine at Kalmbach Publishing Co., who is an editor at Classic Trains , recently sent it around and I found it amusing. Enjoy. --R on Kovach, senior editor, The...
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