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Georgina Harding, Author of Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlisted Painter of Silence (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Author, Orange Prize for Fiction, Fiction, Writer, Travel, Ceausescu, Stalism, London, Novel, Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding, Communism, Eastern Europe, Romania, crane.tv, Book, World War, Video, Arts News
Crane.tv

Painter of Silence, Georgina Harding's third novel -- recently shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction -- is set in Romania in the early fifties ...

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Chuck Klosterman Talks Football Safety and Whether He's a Good Person

Mark Bazer | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Football, Novel, Klosterman, Nirvana, Writing, Chuck Klosterman, Chuck Klosterman Eating the Dinosaur, Video, Entertainment News
Mark Bazer

In my chat with Klosterman, he expounds on the subjects he writes about often -- music, sports -- while tackling the question of whether cavemen were, in fact, the most interesting people ever.

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Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Teddy Wayne | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, David Foster Wallace, Iraq, Dallas Cowboys, Ben Fountain, George W. Bush, Catch-22, Novel, Books News
Teddy Wayne

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk time-warps back to the excesses of the Bush administration in following the titular protagonist, and the seven surviving members of Bravo Squad, for one afternoon as they receive a heroes' welcome during the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day football game.

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'Mom Wrote A Book'

Jennifer Handford | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Daughter, International Adoption, Daughters for a Time, Infertility, Mother, Writing, Fiction, Novels, Jennifer Handford, Cancer, Writing a Novel, Mother and Daughters, Women's Fiction, Novel, Adoption, Dream Job, Parents News
Jennifer Handford

At this moment in time, I'm an author, a job title as inspired and dreamy as a veterinarian, fire fighter, plumber, or Dolly Madison truck driver.

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What Does the Success of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Tell Us About American Readers?

Alma Katsu | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Fifty Shades of Grey, Women, Erotica, Writing, Novel, E.L. James, Sex Writing, Romance Novels, Erotic Fiction, Books News
Alma Katsu

If the phenomenal demand for Fifty Shades of Grey tells us anything, it tells us that female readers actually do want real sex in their books and they'll buy it if they know it's in there.

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Smokejumper, Bestselling Memoirist Murry Taylor's New Novel The Rhythm of Leaves: A Review

Mary Pauline Lowry | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: The Rhythm of Leaves., Murry Taylor, Mary Pauline Lowry, Jumping Fire, Novel, Memoir, Books News
Mary Pauline Lowry

Often beautiful, often sad, The Rhythm of Leaves illuminates the way that both war and blind patriotism can cause lasting and irrevocable harm. And Murry Taylor, a man unafraid to take on new challenges, has proven himself a success yet again.

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Will the Tablet Kill the Novel?

Warren Adler | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Ereaders, Kindle, Books, Literature News, Reading, Tablet, Novel, Ebooks, Nook, Book Technology, Books News
Warren Adler

Nevertheless, the technology addiction cannot be ignored as a competitor to reading. Indeed, some prognosticators may be right in citing the eventual rise of the tablet as a device of choice for everything under the techie sun, including reading.

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The Little Bride

Anna Solomon | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Mandatory Virginity, Excerpt, Book Excerpt, Mail-Order Brides, Virginity, The Little Bride, Anna Solomon, Novel, Weddings News
Anna Solomon

My novel, The Little Bride, begins in a basement in Odessa, where 16-year-old maidservant Minna Losk is being given her "Look" - an examination to see if she's sufficiently "fit" (i.e., "virginal") to become a mail-order bride to America.

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Mystery Writer, Sara Paretsky

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Breakdown, Author, Crime, Chicago, Mystery, Mystery Writer, V I Warshawski, Book, Feminism, Sara Paretsky, Novel, Video, Books News
Elysabeth Alfano

Sara Paretsky is a game-changer. In 1982, Sara came out with her first V. I. Warshawski novel, Indemnity Only, now celebrating its 30th year in print...

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How To Begin An Affair (Fiction)

Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Book News, Infidelity, The Forgotten Waltz, Book Excerpt, Anne Enright, Books We Love, Extramarital Affair, Unfaithful, Marital Infidelity, Novel, Women News

I met him in my sister's garden in Enniskerry. That is where I saw him first. There was nothing fated about it, though I add in the late summer light ...

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50 Cent Writes Book For Teens About Bullying

Entertainment Weekly | Stephan Lee | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Playground, 50 Cent, Bullying, Novel, Young Adult, Fiction, High School News

Rapper and mogul Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is trying his hand at writing for teens and doing good at the same time. Jackson’s partially autobiogr...

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Kage -- A Thriller

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Mystery Novels, Suspense-Thriller, Thrillers, John Donohue, Karate, Martial Arts, Novel, Books News
Arthur Rosenfeld

Fans of action fiction, Japanese philosophy, and martial arts, would do well to pick up a copy of this book, and through the safety and insights within its pages, be both challenged and entertained.

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Today's Tribute to the Struggle Against Slavery

J. L. Morin | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Women, Anti-Slavery, Author, Modern-Day Slavery, Fiction, Slavery, Travelling Light, International, Novel, World News
J. L. Morin

People around the globe are celebrating today's International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition and the day that slavery became illegal in the Western world.

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Checking Out

Laura Dave | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Summer Reading, Travel Tips, Novel Writing, Beach Reading, Novelists, Food, Travel, Book Clubs, Novel, Travel News
Laura Dave

One of my favorite quotes about traveling is by Susan Sontag. Sontag said, "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."

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Gregory Beyer

Albert Brooks Talks About His First Novel, '2030'

HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Twenty Thirty, Finding Nemo, Albert Brooks, Jewish President, Books, 2030, Los Angeles, Comedy, Novel, Comedy News

After handshakes and photographs with his lingering admirers, Albert Brooks followed his publicist into a closet-size room deep within the Barnes & No...

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The Not-So Comic Future

nytimes.com | JANET MASLIN | Posted 07.01.2011

Read More: Politics, The Real Story of What Happens to America, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, Comics, Books, Arts, 2030, Film, Comedy, Albert Brooks, Novel, Actors, Arts News

In his most recent film, "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World," Albert Brooks can be seen as a stand-up comic trying to entertain an audience in In...

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The Perils Of Turning Your Mother Into Your Novel's Main Character

Telegraph | 12:02PM BST 01 Apr 2011 | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Authors, Main Character, Writers, Fictional Mother, Mother as Character, Fictional Mom, Surrey State of Affairs, The Telegraph, Novel, Ceri Radford, Books News

My mother has a lot to forgive me for. What started as a little joke -- a blog I wrote from the perspective of a made up 53-year-old Surrey housewife ...

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Writing the Decent Denver Novel

Jenny Shank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Elway, Denver-Colorado, Books, Novel Writing, Writing, Boulder, Colorado, Novel, Denver, Denver Broncos, Book Publishing, Baseball, Fiction, Book, Kent Haruf, Annie Proulx, Willa Cather, The Ringer, Best of Denver, Denver News
Jenny Shank

Writing the Great American Novel seemed out of the question. So instead I set out to write the Decent Denver Novel. Why Denver, you ask? Why not Denver, I say.

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Devil May Care: Horns by Joe Hill

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heart-Shaped Box, Religion, Devil, Bible, Jesus, Books, Joe Hill, Christianity, Horror, Horns, Novel, Books News
Ilana Teitelbaum

Featuring a protagonist who is simultaneously villain and victim, Horns seeks to revisit the concept of the hero -- can a hero be someone who does something truly monstrous?

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Preface to a Prelude to Peak Oil

Kelpie Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Obama, Peak Oil, Food Prices, Climate Change, Revolution, Novel, Books, Fuel Prices, Green News
Kelpie Wilson

In our guts, we all know that fossil fuels can't last forever. What will we do with the knowledge that we are standing on an energy cliff?

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Karen Russell on the Persistence of the Novelist

Brian Gresko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swamplandia, Author Interviews, Writing a Novel, Karen Russell, Writing Advice, Writing Tips, Novelist, Novel, Books News
Brian Gresko

Karen Russell -- a rising star in the literary world -- speaks about her writing process and the trials and tribulations she encountered when writing her debut novel Swamplandia!

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Con Games: On Writing The Post-Papyrus Novel

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Kesey, Facebook, Fiction, Novel, Denver News
Michael Conniff

During the dark ages of technology -- this would be 1984 or so -- I found myself lucky enough to go to the first-ever Microsoft conference on CD-ROM, ...

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Kevin Guilfoile Premieres Trailer for The Thousand on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thriller, Mark Bazer, The Thousand, Hideout, Kevin Guilfoile, Chicago, Mystery, Da Vinci Code, Novel, Cast of Shadows, Talk Show, Dan Brown, Chicago News
Mark Bazer

Novelist Kevin Guilfoile premiered the "trailer" to his new book, The Thousand, on The Interview Show at The Hideout.

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Squished Deer Brains With Bare Hands For Research

USA Today | Carol Memmott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Land of Painted Caves, Cro-Magnon, Prehistoric, Native People, Clan of the Cave Bear, Bestseller, Cave Bear, Ice Age, Book Party, Jean Auel, Book Trilogy, Indigenous People, Novel, Ereaders, Ebooks, Books News

On Oct. 6, the series will be released for the first time as e-books; paperback editions will be reissued with new covers next spring; and on March 29...

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New York Times Says Best Novelists Are in 20s And 30s

Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Book Publishing, Books, Writing, First Novel, Writing a Novel, Slidepollajax, Debut Novel, New Author, New York Times, Novel, Sam Tanenhaus, Bestsellers, Books News
Randy Susan Meyers

I tried to resist writing this -- especially after my plea against categorizing authors. Plus, so many of us hide our age in this world of never-get-...

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