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8 Legendary Same-Sex Couples (PHOTOS)

Rodger Streitmatter | Posted May 26, 2012

Read More: Gay Marriage, Obama Gay Marriage, Gay Couples, Gay Couples History, Obama Same Sex Marriage, Outlaw Marriages, Same Sex Couples, Same Sex Marriage, Photo Galleries

Barack, why didn't you just keep your big pie hole shut? Come on, guy, I voted for you and I went to your inauguration--so why are you doing this to me?

The thing is, four years ago when I came up with the title for the book I was...

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Confronting The Biggest Threat To The Public Library

Christian Zabriskie | Posted May 25, 2012

Read More: Free Books, Libraries In Crisis, Library Protest, Nyc, Nypl, Nypl Protest, Public Libraries, Save Nyc Libraries, Slideexpand, Urban Librarians Unite

There is something ineffably sad about abandoned books. They sit, discarded, a story that will never be shared, pages that will never be turned. People are drawn to them, they are protective of them. Readers will stop for an abandoned book, they will bring them home even when they don't...

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Warning: Explicit Sexual Content

Ann Bauer | Posted May 25, 2012

Read More: Books Sex Scenes, Books Sexual Content, Erotic Novels, Erotica, Female Sexuality, Literary Fiction, Sex, Sex In Books, Sexual Content, The Forever Marriage, Women's Literary Fiction

Before we begin, if you're under 18, or one of my children (even if you're over 18), or one of my children's friends, or someone who works for me, or my Mom or Dad, you should stop reading and close your browser now.

I'm serious.

OK, now that...

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The (Other) Little Death

David Kudler | Posted May 25, 2012

Read More: Artistic Process, Creativity, Helen Steele, Writer's Block, Writing

Painting by Helene Steele © Helen Steele

Painting © Helene Steele

My fourteen-year-old interviewed an artist yesterday for Fastforward, the...

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The Secrets to Getting More Book Reviews (Even if Your Book Is Already Out)

Penny C. Sansevieri | Posted May 25, 2012

Read More: Book Marketing, Online Book Marketing, Book Reviews, Ebook-Review, Publishing

We hear it all the time: "the window for reviews is shrinking." And yet we still see reviews appearing everywhere. So how can you capture a share of this market? It's true that often reviews from big-name bloggers go to equally big-name authors. Well, can you blame the blogger? If...

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Why I Reenacted 2,000 Years of History (PHOTOS)

Charlie Schroeder | Posted May 25, 2012

Read More: Elizabethan England, Historical Reenacting, Man Of War, Renaissance Faire, Acting, Historical Reenactments, Nazis, Reenactment, Reenactors, Romans, Slideexpand, Vikings, William Shakespeare

When I was a junior in college I fell in love with Shakespeare. I was determined to become the next Kenneth Branagh--in large part because I wanted to bed his then wife, Emma Thompson. Love of literature can be based on worse things.

Anyway, after classes ended that year I...

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'The Rules' Authors Set To Release 'Not Your Mother's Rules' For The Online Generation

Emma Gray | Posted May 25, 2012

Women should "always end a phone call first," "let him take the lead," and never "tell him what to do." This is the sort of advice that the best-selling (straight) dating guide book "The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right" gives to single women...

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Why Society Is Failing Young Boys

Dr. Philip Zimbardo | Posted May 25, 2012

Read More: Boys, Demise Of Guys, Downfall Of Men, Parenting Boys, Parenting Tips, Psychology

Have you noticed how guys are being portrayed in movies lately? Unless you've been living under a rock you've seen at least one of these: Knocked Up, Failure to Launch, Hall Pass, Old School, or the Jackass series.

All the leading male characters are presented as expendable losers usually incapable...

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Rich Literary Heritage Draws Writers To Key West

Pam Grout | Posted May 25, 2012

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Key West, Key West Literary Seminar, Literary Key West, Conch Republic, Destinations, Us Destinations

If you're a writer, Key West is on your bucket list, likely in the number one spot.

This bohemian island city, the southernmost in the contiguous United States, is where Ernest Hemingway produced nearly half his life's work including To Have and Have Not and For Whom the Bell...

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So You Want to Learn About This Hockey Thing?

The Los Angeles Public Library | Posted May 25, 2012

Read More: LA Kings, Los Angeles Kings, Stanley Cup Playoffs 2012, Hockey, Hockey Books, Photo Galleries, Stanley Cup 2012, Wayne Gretzky

By Bob Timmermann, Senior Librarian at Central Library.

On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Kings earned just their second trip to the Stanley Cup Final in franchise history, after defeating the Phoenix Coyotes, 4-3 in overtime, to win the Western Conference Final in five games. The Kings, who...

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The X-Men Join the Evolution

Maya Rupert | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Marvel Gay Wedding, Marvel Same-Sex Wedding, X-Men LGBT, X-Men LGBT Community, X-Men LGBT Rights, X-Men Gay, X-Men Gay Community, X-Men Gay Marriage, X-Men Gay Rights, X-Men Gay Wedding, X-Men

When The Avengers opened earlier this month, it shattered several box-office records, including biggest opening weekend in North America. Those numbers tell us everything we need to know about why marriage equality advocates should be anxiously anticipating the recently announced, impending marriage that will be featured in the upcoming issue...

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Summer Reading 2012: Books for Kids of All Ages

Devon Corneal | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Books For Girls, Picture Books, Summer Reading, YA Books, Young Adult Books, Books, Books For Boys, Children's Books, Devon Corneal, Summer Reading 2012, Summer Reading List, Vacation Reading

It's almost June and you know what that means. School will be out. Children will be left to their own devices. During hours of endless sun and aimless wandering, you will hear, over and over again, "I'm bored. There's nothing to do." There are only so many times you can...

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The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Andrew Lam | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Culture, Education, Internet, Letter, Reading, Thinking, Writing

Thanks to the Internet, I have over the years managed to get back in touch with many long-lost friends. But one of them recently sent me an e-mail complaining that, now that we are communicating on a regular basis, she actually misses me more, not less.

Astounded by the seemingly...

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What I Learned When My Son Was Born

Joel Stein | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Having a Baby, Joel Stein, Birth, Fatherhood, Having a Son, Joel Stein Book, Joel Stein Man Made, Joel Stein Time, Man Made a Stupid Quest For Masculinity, Man Made Excerpt, Parenting

The very manly trait of boyish delight comes built into most of us, and our job is not to let it get removed.

I walk outside and jot down that idea. When I look at it, I realize it's not good enough for The List. Ever since Cassandra got pregnant,...

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Ted Conover: On Traveling and Being Free Behind Bars

Ru Freeman | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Burton Rascoe, National Geographic, The Atlantic, The NYT, The New Yorker, Interview, Investigative Journalism, Sing Sing, Ted Conover, Vqr

Eight years after Ted Conover's book, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Random House, 2000), came out, a Pew report found that 1 in 100 Americans were behind bars. Although the overall prison population has declined in each of the last three years under...

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North Korea: The End Game of Post Modernism

Illya Szilak | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: North Korea, Books About North Korea, North Korea Books, North Korea Post Modernism, Post Modernism, Travel To North Korea, Writing About North Korea

"Magical" is not a word that comes to mind when most people think of North Korea --"harsh," or "poor" or even "evil;" certainly not an adjective that connotes enchantment. But then, most people haven't been there. In April, I joined a tour group headed to the DPRK for the Great...

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Books: Kim Stanley Robinson's Latest Sci-Fi Gem 2312

Michael Giltz | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Books, Sci Fi Books, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Video

2312 BY KIM STANLEY ROBINSON *** 1/2 out of **** $25; Orbit 561 pages

Science fiction at its best can accomplish one of two things. Either an author is adept at extrapolating current scientific thought and expands our ideas...

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9 Inspiring Quotes From Taxi Cab Passengers

Mark Solomon | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Advice Book, Black Cab, Black Cab Wisdom, Black Cab Wisdom Book, Book News, Cab Driver, Cab Driver Book, Cab Driver Stories, Cab Driver Story, Quotation Book, Quote Book, Slideexpand

It was September 2009 and the British summertime seemed to be over; in fact, I did not recall it even starting. As usual, I was sitting in the front of my London taxi cab asking myself what life was all about.

Then all of a sudden, a worldly-wise North American...

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A Conversation With Chip Kidd and the First Look at Batman: Death by Design

Bryan Young | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Bruce Wayne, DC Comics, Batman, Batman Comics, Batman Dark Knight, Chip Kidd, Chip Kidd Design, Comic Books, Death By Design

Chip Kidd, the legendary author and designer, is the writer behind a new Batman graphic novel called Death by Design. It's a very smart and brilliantly illustrated black-and-white film turned comic book that tells a story of a Gotham crumbling at the foundations by corruption. Reading this book,...

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How To Write A Bestseller - According To The Formula

Peter Winkler | Posted May 24, 2012

Read More: Writing Advice, Bestseller Formula, Bestselling Book, Bestselling Formula, Book Formula, How To Write a Bestseller, How To Write a Bestselling Novel

Can you write a best-selling novel simply by following a formula?

Creative writing professor and novelist James W. Hall tries his hand at teasing out the magical, alchemical recipe for creating a bestseller in his new book, Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest...

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