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Amazon.com backtracks on Kindle text-to-speech »
Posted by: ap 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon.com Inc. changed course Friday and said it would allow copyright holders to decide whether they will permit their works to be ...
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First Rule of Writing »
Posted by: JLAR 10 months, 4 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Rules are interesting little critters, aren't they? I write quite often about rules, and about the breaking of rules, on Sling Words , my other ...
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British author says she is banned from Dubai event »
Posted by: ap 9 months, 4 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
LONDON (AP) — A British author said Monday she has been banned from a Dubai literary festival because her forthcoming novel contains references to homosexuality.
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Authors to Washington Post: Save Book World »
Posted by: ap 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK (AP) — Historians Robert Dallek and Sean Wilentz and author-essayist Barbara Ehrenreich are among the more than 100 writers who have signed an open ...
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Prize-winning 'Rabbit' writer John Updike dies »
Posted by: ap 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK (AP) — John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar ...
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John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76 »
Posted by: ap 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK (AP) — John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar ...
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Obama stage musical set for London run »
Posted by: ap 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
LONDON (AP) — Barack Obama's presidential campaign inspired millions. Now, it has inspired a London musical.
"Obama on My Mind" will open at a small ...
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(podcast) Tom Carter on National Geographic Weekend Radio »
Posted by: tomcarter 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
(scroll to the bottom) Recently, Tom Carter picked up a small camera and started wandering around China. Carter joins NG to talk about his new ...
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A new chapter in storytelling? »
Posted by: Wil 1 year, 4 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
Are you interested in "new delivery systems for stories"? Stephen King is, apparently, hence the strategy for promoting his next book, Just After Sunset, a ...
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Prize-winning writer Hortense Calisher dies at 97 »
Posted by: ap 11 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK (AP) — Hortense Calisher, a prize-winning writer and former president of PEN known for her dense, unskimmable prose in such works of fiction as ...
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Danish writer Inger Christensen dies at age 73 »
Posted by: ap 11 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Inger Christensen's publisher says the Danish writer who built experimental poems, essays and novels around systematized and mathematical structures has died ...
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Author, publisher defend disputed Holocaust memoir »
Posted by: ap 11 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK (AP) — The author and publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir are defending the book's story of love between two survivors, but say ...
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Writer recalls truth, fiction of 'Usual Suspects' »
Posted by: ap 11 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
NEW YORK (AP) — The story line on "Valkyrie" has focused on the "Tom Cruise-as-Nazi" angle, but it's also a notable regrouping of the two ...
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