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No Pulitzer Prize for Fiction This Year
Somehow, the British always manage to name a winner for their prestigious Man Booker Award, but this year the Americans could not decide which among the three finalists in fiction warranted the honor.… more →
No Charge Bookbunch
The Quickly Changing World of Publishing
wrote 1 day ago: The following is an abridged version of a series with the same title as this post on my other blog h … more →
Ordinary Grace a mystery with grace and sadness
wrote 4 days ago: I’ve enjoyed William Kent Krueger‘s Cork O’Connor mystery series, thirteen mysteri … more →
MARILY HACKER IS HACKED !
wrote 6 days ago: they snuck in as a friend, they knew that two and three make a higher 5 they did not write F … more →
"Words fell out of his mouth like cold pebbles."
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wrote 1 week ago: Sometimes, a book just screams, “AMY! PICK ME UP AND READ ME!” This was one of those boo … more →
It's time for a screaming to come across the sky...
wrote 1 week ago: … time to crack Inherent Vice in a coffee shop, time to trot out V on a train, time to wield A … more →
Publication of "Kasama" in 1987
wrote 1 week ago: Publication of Kasama: A Collection of Photographs of the New People’s Army of the Philippine … more →
Author DAVID JAMES DUNCAN featured at Idaho Writers and Readers Rendezvous
wrote 2 weeks ago: A terrific line up of authors and publishing professionals are coming to this year’s Idaho Wri … more →
"Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved."
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You Should Read Patti Smith
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers we … more →
Book Review: Being Dead by Jim Crace
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Being Dead by Jim Crace My rating: 3 of 5 stars It’s curious that author Jim Crace isn’t … more →
The Scruffy Rube's #CBR5 Review #9: The Swerve, by Stephen Greenblatt
wrote 3 weeks ago: This is the final part of an extra long post on my personal website (The Scruffy Rube) that deals wi … more →
BOOK REVIEW: Bomb: The Race to Build-And Steal-The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
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wrote 3 weeks ago: by Andrew Palmer While I do enjoy reading a great fiction book, I would much rather curl up with non … more →
The Curious Relationship Between Writers and Cats
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wrote 1 month ago: Writers have been said to be solitary beings, which may provide insight into why so many writers see … more →
Two books I loved recognized by the Pulitzer Prize Board
wrote 1 month ago: Adam Johnson’s extraordinary novel of life in North Korea’s gulag, The Orphan Master … more →
La verità, ombra impotente della menzogna
wrote 1 month ago: “Mi sento parte di quella razza in via di estinzione che pensa che uno scrittore vada letto e non as … more →
Book Review, sort of: Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
wrote 1 month ago: Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin (Random House, 2009) used Phillippe Petit’s tightrope walk b … more →
Bill Moyers Interviews Oregon's Barry Lopez
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wrote 1 month ago: Barry Lopez has lived in the foothills of the Oregon Cascade mountains for 40 years. As a younger ma … more →
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
wrote 1 month ago: This is a book full of caves: tunnels used by the Viet Cong in combat; caverns inhabited by indigeno … more →
Banned Books That Shaped America: Beloved
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wrote 1 month ago: The Library of Congress created an exhibit, “Books that Shaped America,” that explores b … more →
