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11-10-09: The Significance of the Insignificant 1 comment

mdmorn wrote 3 weeks ago: Listen to the story here. Everyone has junk hanging around their house. Inexplicable boxes of useles … more →

Tags: [on air], Arts and Culture

The Critics’ Choice for Best Crime Novel of 20081 comment

henryct wrote 3 months ago: What was the best book of 2008?  Results vary, especially since no one can read every book published … more →

Tags: Posts, 2008 best crime, 2008 best mystery, 2008 best thriller, adam woog, Ali Karim, best crime novel, best crime novel of 2008, Cameron Hughes

Best Reads of 2009 (so far)2 comments

henryct wrote 4 months ago: It’s more than halfway through 2009 and time to evaluate what I’ve read so far.  For som … more →

Tags: Posts, Recommendations, best mysteries, cj sansom, Crime Fiction, Great Mysteries, Great thrillers, Hard-boiled, Highly Recommended

River Life4 comments

lalber wrote 4 months ago: Coffee-time And I’m back from the McKenzie River, and I most emphatically did not bring work w … more →

Tags: writing, Creativity, Life, McKenzie River, river life, rest, Relaxation, @ vacation

River Life4 comments

lalber wrote 4 months ago: Coffee-time And I’m back from the McKenzie River, and I most emphatically did not bring work w … more →

Tags: writing, Creativity, Life, McKenzie River, river life, rest, Relaxation, @ vacation

Litchfield teacher resigns amid short story controversy5 comments

Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship wrote 5 months ago: On June 18, the School Board of Campbell High School in Litchfield, New Hampshire decided to remove … more →

Tags: Hannah Mueller: Author, Andy Towne, Banned Book, david sedaris, Ernest Hemingway, Kathleen Reilly, Kids' Right to Read, Litchfield school controversy, Stephen King

Summer (banned) reading list straight from Litchfield, N.H.2 comments

thehostess wrote 5 months ago: Advocate: The head of a high school English department in Litchfield, N.H., is leaving her job after … more →

Tags: Books, Family, LGBT, Gender, david sedaris, Stephen King, book bans, Summer Reading, Ernest Hemingway

Favorite Books

wroughtirongates wrote 5 months ago: These are a few of my favorite reads. I loved pretty much everything about them: the stories, the wr … more →

Tags: Books, Favorite Books, The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly, Die a Little, Megan Abbott, The Song is You, queenpin, bury me deep

Hemingway, King, Sedaris kicked out of New Hampshire high school classes21 comments

Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship wrote 5 months ago: A couple of recent censorship attempts at public libraries have been squashed, but yesterday a group … more →

Tags: Hannah Mueller: Author, Abortion, david sedaris, Ernest Hemingway, Homosexuality, Kids' Right to Read, Litchfield school controversy, Stephen King

Potato? Potato.1 comment

Steve wrote 6 months ago: Morning All, I’ve just returned from three days in Sydney, immersing myself in their writers … more →

Tags: MWF staff musings, Other Events, Cees Nootebaum, Craig Silvey, crayfish, Evelyn Jurers, Fred Watson, Kazuo Ishiguro, marcus chown

FREE Audiobook mp3s from Barnes and Noble (Offer ends May 16, 2009)

RandomizeME wrote 7 months ago: “It’s easy to get your Free Audiobook MP3s: 1. Add any or all Free Audiobook MP3s on thi … more →

Tags: Freebies, Short Stories, Audiobook, Free Download, barnes and noble, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Elizabeth Berg, Alice Munro

A Long Week... A List of Links....

artandliterature wrote 7 months ago: I’m sorry I’ve been such a slacker this week — well, here at least. It’s because i … more →

Tags: Mysteries/Thrillers, Fall for the Book, George Mason University, David A Taylor, James Ellroy, Peter Schechter

Rapid reading round-up

romdjoll wrote 7 months ago: Ok, this is going to be a quickie as my back is killing me and I’ve just realised it has been … more →

Tags: Good Reads, fire gospel, Michel Faber, if you're reading this it's too late, pseudonymous bosch, mad bad and sad, Lisa Appignanesi, The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson

New Additions to the IMBA's Best Mysteries List? 4 comments

henryct wrote 8 months ago: In 2000 the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association looked back at a century of murder and compi … more →

Tags: discussion, Posts, Recommendations, 100 Favorite Mysteries, George Pelecanos, IMBA, Mysteries of the Century, Val McDermid

Links: Stranded

Mark Athitakis wrote 8 months ago: Vanderbilt University’s Jay Clayton teaches a class that I wouldn’t dream of skipping: B … more →

Tags: elizabeth bear, Harper Lee, richard powers

A Quaint And Curious Volume2 comments

artandliterature wrote 10 months ago: Edgar Allan Poe turns 200 on Monday, January 19, and the bicentennial has prompted a series of celeb … more →

Tags: Poetry, Mysteries/Thrillers, Fall for the Book, writing, George Mason University, Edgar Allan Poe, Sue Grafton, Michael Connelly, S.J. Rozan

REVEW: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman2 comments

henryct wrote 10 months ago: Laura Lippman is mostly known for her popular and highly praised series, featuring the tough Baltimo … more →

Tags: Posts, Reviews, Awards, Recommendations, Thriller, best mysteries, Great Mysteries, Highly Recommended, 2008

Good News with Guns

Mark Raymond Falk wrote 11 months ago: I got some great news today when Anthony Neil Smith from PLOTS WITH GUNS let me know that my short s … more →

Tags: I'm Probably Drunk Right Now, Plots with Guns, Anthony Neil Smith, Ian Rankin, Ken Bruen

Catching Up: 3 Mini-Reviews20 comments

J.S. Peyton wrote 11 months ago: On catching up with mini-reviews, Victorian high drama, knives in your gullet, and busting a gut: Ye … more →

Tags: Books, Novel, Review, david sedaris, Wilkie Collins


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