Anne Rice

Astoria Characters: The Shows Girl

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 03.18.2012

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Nancy Ruhling

By the time she was 20, Joanna Psoroyannis had arrived in Astoria with only her dreams and a couple of suitcases. She had enrolled at New York University, where she planned to pursue a fine-arts degree.

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Thanksgiving With Myself

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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George Heymont

I'm spending Thanksgiving alone again this year, with (non-cranberry) relish. Instead of obsessing about Black Friday sales, it's a day to enjoy peace and quiet.

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Why I Am Not Quitting Christianity

Eugene Cho | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eugene Cho

As much as I'm tempted to join Anne Rice, I am publicly declaring my imperfect love for an imperfect world for which Christ demonstrated perfect love. I am a Christian because Christ demonstrated love humanity.

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Anne Rice On Her Decision To Quit Christianity (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Anne Rice announced on her Facebook page last week that she has decided to quit Christianity. She spoke to Joy Behar today about that decision and wha...

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Anne Rice: 'I Quit Being a Christian!' Yaaaaawn.

John Shore | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Shore

I have written and said, "I'm a Christian," because I refuse to cede that term to those whom I feel are perverting and ruining it. I'm too ornery not to call myself a Christian.

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Why Anne Rice Has Never Been More of a Christian

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Rowe

While Rice says her faith in God remains intact, her repudiation of Christianity is a clarion call, one that should not be written off as a publicity stunt by a bestselling author, or dismissed by the Evangelical establishment.

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Anne Rice: 'I Quit Being A Christian'

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anne Rice, the bestselling novelist most popularly known for "Interview with the Vampire" and her other creepy vampire novels, announced on Wednesday ...

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The New Vampires: 9 Possible Future Crazes In Teen Lit (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Vampires are having a great run in books, especially teen literature, and publishers are looking not only for the next Stephenie Meyer and "Twilight,"...

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Angels May Replace Vampires As New Trend In Teen Lit

The Guardian | Vanessa Thorpe | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Angels are all around us," reads the publisher's blurb for Angel, the first of a British trilogy of books for teenagers. "Their beauty is intoxicatin...

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Will Vook Be A Kindle Killer?

Livescience.com | Ned Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's a new story-telling medium in town that could help the iPad put a nail in Kindle's coffin: The vook. A vook (rhymes with "book") is an enhanc...

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Anne Rice Vampire Vook Released Today (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anne Rice is the first big author to have a Vook, or video book, launched and hers hits the market at Vook.com today. Here's the trailer for the story...

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Anne Rice On Vook

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Anne Rice is giving the video book a try. The author of "Interview With a Vampire," "The Vampire Lestat" and many other favorites ha...

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Reading In Public: They're Not The Big New Bestsellers You'd Expect (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every so often we gather observations from around the country of what people are reading in public. What people were reading in the fall is a bit diff...

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Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Secrets

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

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Author Calling FBI About Negative Amazon Reviewers?

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

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This year has seen its fair share of authors kicking off about poor reviews, from Alice Hoffman, who called a Boston Globe critic a "moron" on Twitter...

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Book Review Round-Up

Posted 05.25.2011

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Here it is, your weekly book review round-up: Eating, Jason Epstein The New York Times The book is delicious, in its minimalist, essayistic way. But...

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Anne Rice On The Switch To Angels

wowOwow | Joni Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Just write. That's what makes us a writer, is we write. I mean, if we don't do that we're not writers. And it's so important not to be discouraged, b...

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Vampires: Why Here, Why Now?

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

If fiction often reflects a nation's culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today?

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HuffPost Reviews: The Annie Lennox Collection/Simply Red 25 - The Greatest Hits

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Ragogna

Spanning seventeen years, a proper Annie Lennox retrospective of her solo material finally arrives -- a mix of grooves, ballads, and two new recordings.

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Vampire Author Anne Rice Endorses Hillary, Wants VP Obama

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Author Anne Rice has published a video on YouTube endorsing Hillary Clinton as president (and Barack Obama as her vice president). At one point, Rice ...

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Authors Get Political: Who Gives What

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Rice, Hillary Clinton, Amy Tan, Judy Blume, Barack Obama, John Grisham, Entertainment News

You read their books, but did you ever wonder their politics? Here's a look at what your favorite authors have given to the 2008 presidential candidat...

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