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Google gives out-of-print books a new lifeonline »
Posted by: Progressive 10 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California : Ben Zimmer, executive producer of a Web site and software package called the Visual Thesaurus, was seeking the earliest use of the ...
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Remembering John Updike »
Posted by: Progressive 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Updike's wandering eye almost always made its way into the bedroom, and his persistent gaze at sex and adultery, topics considered taboo for the ...
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Hortense Calisher, Author, Dies at 97 »
Posted by: idyll 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Hortense Calisher, the novelist and short-story writer whose unpredictable turns of phrase, intellectually challenging fictional situations and complex plots captivated and puzzled readers for a ...
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UPDIKES POEM ON HIS OWN DEMISE »
Posted by: Progressive 9 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
The death of Pulitzer-winning author John Updike made headlines this week, but in a poem to be published this year, he mused about his "overdue ...
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Victor LaValle’s Big Machine Draws Comparisons to Thomas Pynchon - WSJ.com »
Posted by: ATrueRoman 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
A little-known African-American writer draws high-profile support.
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Horror in 2008: The Current State of Horror Lit »
Posted by: Rollic 9 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
The future of horror fiction as a separate genre seems more problematic than ever. The field has been dominated by the same half dozen writers ...
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Jane Austen fleshed out with zombies! »
Posted by: Ryan 9 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
A US publisher is releasing a new bone-crunching comedy version of Pride and Prejudice in which Elizabeth must face off the dubious social manners of ...
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It's Time For A Blog Carnival! »
Posted by: mysticdave 1 month ago in Arts & Entertainment
What is a Blog Carnival : A Blog Carnival is an opportunity to discover other blogs. Bloggers who submit their articles to carnivals are rewarded with ...
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The origins of Flannery O'Conner's unsettling world »
Posted by: idyll 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
O’Connor’s fictional world is a severe, hilarious, violent place. People behave with senseless intolerance—not just racial intolerance, which we might expect of ...
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Google Book Search settlement gives Google a virtual monopoly over literature - Boing Boing »
Posted by: tdrapeau 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The Authors Guild -- which represents a measly 8000 writers -- brought a class action against Google on behalf of all literary copyright holders, even the authors ...
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Writing Off Updike »
Posted by: Progressive 9 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
In death, John Updike is being remembered as America's last great man of letters. So why, Lee Siegel asks, did the literary establishment try ...
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Rock Lit Review: Apocalypse Jukebox »
Posted by: mattreep 3 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
The central thesis of David Janssen and Edward Whitelock’s book, Apocalypse Jukebox , is sound — there is a lot of American popular music that deals ...
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That Old Cape Magic | Bestseller Books&Reviews »
Posted by: poochiew2 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed ...
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Top 10 books that Should be Games »
Posted by: idyll 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
We see the leap from silver screen to the hot little diodes of your PS3 or Xbox all the time... but why don't we ...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle) | Bestseller Books&Reviews »
Posted by: poochiew2 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher ...
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