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"Fat Chick" Finally Gets Its "Fat Chance"

Lorraine Duffy Merkl | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Debut Authors, Novels, Yo-Yo Dieting, Marie Osmond, First Novel, Carnie Wilson, Publishing, Writing, Authors, Kirstie Alley, Valerie Bertinelli, Books, Fat Chick, Dieting, Advertising, New Authors, Books News
Lorraine Duffy Merkl

At age 51, I never thought I'd be "debuting". In fact, I thought I'd be on the downward slope of a successful advertising career. But, plans were meant for changing.

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An Interview with William Sleator, YA Novelist

Nick Antosca | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Novels, Young Adult Books, William Sleator, Young Adult Literature, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Books News
Nick Antosca

Sleator was one of the very few "YA" authors I loved when I was young. Earlier this year, I read a bunch of them out of curiosity, and realized that they're really ingenious, elegantly constructed novellas.

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Reading ... the Old Fashioned Way

Ivy Pochoda | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Novels, Novelists, Kindle, Bookstores, Reading, Books News
Ivy Pochoda

We have grown distant from our words. Our books are not physical objects, but rather bits and bytes on a screen. Reading aloud makes words tangible and gives them a presence.

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Newspapers, Not Books, Are the Key to Engaging Budding College Students

Danny Groner | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: College Students, Internet, Newspapers, College, Books, Novels, 9/11, Charles Dickens, Paradise Lost, Albert Camus, Herman Melville, The Plague, Edmund Spenser, Students, John Milton, Chaucer, Media News
Danny Groner

The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.

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War and Pieces: A Review of Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows

Adrienne Celt | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Iraq War, Politics, Colonialism, Nagasaki, Book Review, Cia, Pakistan, Orange Prize for Fiction, Pakistani Literature, Novels, Globalization, India, Atomic Bomb, Burnt Shadows, Living News
Adrienne Celt

The book is complex and sweeping in scope, seeking to tie together not just the disparate lives of its inhabitants, but also several of the most noted international tragedies in recent history.

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Please, Dear Novelists - Get Real

Johann Hari | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Fiction, Novels, Tom Wolfe, Dave Eggers, Aravind Adiga, Slumdog Millionaire, Journalism, New Journalism, Between the Assassinations, Booker Prize, Media News
Johann Hari

The Slumdog Kill-ionaire is back, and he is reminding us how exhilarating fiction can be when novelists finally leave their seminar rooms and dive into the real world.

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Women Like Reading About Sex

Josa Young | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Women Over 45, Novels, Orphaned Adults, Hen Lit, Romantic Comedy, Relationships, Reading, Sex, Parents, Entertainment News
Josa Young

Far from shrinking from the gaping bedroom door, adult women revel in reading passionate love scenes -- with plenty of detail.

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Anna Quindlen's Son Gets Book Deal For New Novel

The New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Novels, Chris Krovatin, Broadway Books, Anna Quindlen, Books, Media News

Diane Salvatore has made her second acquisition as the newly minted publisher of Broadway Books. The longtime magazine editor, who sat at the helm of ...

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Challenges for Rick & Bobo

Robert Rose | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Novels, Education, Education Reform, Education Policy, Reading, Writing, Politics News
Robert Rose

Reading and writing are basically thinking skills. Once you learn how the symbols for the sounds look and sound, you need to know what they represent or mean.

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Quiet Teacher: Part Four

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Novels, Serialization, Crime Thrillers, Martial Arts, Thriller, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

The final online installment of Arthur Rosenfeld's new novel, Quiet Teacher; a new thriller about the lives, loves, and action adventures of Dr. Xenon Pearl, neurosurgeon by day and vigilante by night.

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The Insanity of Ayn Rand: The Fountain-Brain-Dead.

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 07.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bad Movies, Patricia Neal, Novels, Ayn Rand, Turner Classic Movies, Jack Warner, The Fountainhead, Frank Lloyd Wright, Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged, Gary Cooper, Architecture, Star Trek, Movies, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

This movie is pro-selfishness and egoism (which is just egotism misspelled), and anti-altruism. It preaches, at length and in a superior tone, that Altruism is Bad. And it means it.

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Quiet Teacher (Part Three)

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Novels, Serialization, Tai Chi, Kung Fu, Martial Arts, Noir Fiction, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

This may be the first time a major online newspaper has serialized a book as a pre-publication "tease" for the print edition.

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The Road From La Cueva

Sheila Ortego | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Novels, Literature, Women's Rights, Feminism, Romance, Southwest, Santa Fe, Living News
Sheila Ortego

Women everywhere are still afraid -- of their husbands, of themselves, their own urges, of danger, and of judgment.

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Sitara Achakzai, Martyr for Muslim Women

Kamran Pasha | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Novels, Taliban, Sitara Achakzai, Islam, Politics, Afghanistan, World, World News
Kamran Pasha

It will be up to Muslims like Sitara Achakzai, myself, and the millions of others like us who remember what Islam was meant to be, to put us back on track.

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The Difficulties Of Disconnecting

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 04.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Novels, Iphone, Family Time, Tai Chi, Disconnecting, Technology, Fiction, The Balanced Life, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

I often worry that those things that are most important to me -- spending time with my family, doing my martial arts practice -- are slowly under assault by the very gadgets that I bought to make my life easier.

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Flashback: The First Black (Fictional) President

David Wallechinsky | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Inauguration Coverage, Obama Swearing In, Obama's Inauguration, The Man, Obama Inauguration, Inauguration, Fiction, Novels, Obama Oath, Obama Oath of Office, Barack Obama Inauguration, Irving Wallace, Barack Obama, First Black President, Politics News
David Wallechinsky

In 1964, my father, Irving Wallace, wrote a novel, The Man, about the first black president. For this, my father received both accolades and death threats.

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A Touch of Reality in Print and on Screen

Danny Groner | Posted 02.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Reality TV, Character, The Real World, Mtv, Writing, Novels, Sex and the City, Darren Star, Buses, 1992, MTV the Real World, Maria Semple, He's Just Not That Into You, New York City, Novel, Sex, Entertainment News
Danny Groner

Last night, as part of her book tour, Semple spoke with Sex and the City executive producer, Darren Star, about the process of writing her novel, This One is Mine.

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In Praise of Fiction -- A Gentle Reminder

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 02.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Internet, Emotion, Writers, Writing, Books, Fiction, Novels, Tradition, Technology, Spirituality, Escape, Culture, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

Unlike passive varieties of entertainment, the good novel does not leave us numbed up, dumbed down, mentally impoverished, weakened or intellectually dead.

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Dudes Don't Read: The Book Biz's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

Chris Goldberg | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Layoffs, Novels, Recession, Publishing, Reading, Books, Male Readers, Nanny Lit, Male Writers, Mommy Lit, Media News
Chris Goldberg

Dudes aren't reading. But is it our fault? Or have publishers just given up trying to publish and market books that we'd want to read?

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Waiting for Blago: A Tale of Corruption Nostalgia

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, New Jersey, Rod Blagojevich Corruption, Crime, Gangsters, Growing Up, Kids, Writing, Novels, Fbi, New Jersey Politics, Money Talks, Blago, Chandra Levy, Politics News
Eric Dezenhall

If Barack Obama has pulled a generation into public service through inspiration, I believe Rod Blagojevich will push people into public service through revulsion.

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Nine Tips for Surviving Tumultuous Times

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Stress, Tai Chi, Economy, Spiritual, Novels, Diet, Dehydration, Religious, Tips for Surviving Recession, Tips for Success, Living News
Arthur Rosenfeld

Check a good novel out of the library, turn off the phone and curl up with it. There's nothing wrong with disappearing into fiction for a while. Stay with fiction, though.

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Director David Cronenberg Is Writing A Novel

AP | Posted 11.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Novels, Film, David Cronenberg, Writing, Entertainment News

ROME — Canadian director David Cronenberg is swapping his camera for a pen. The moviemaker, who was attending the Rome Film Festival on Thursda...

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Serena: This Fall's Most Dangerous Novel

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Wall Street Crash, Appalachia, Environmental Movement, Wall Street Crisis, Great American Novel, Novels, American Literature, Logging, Green Living, Thomas Wolfe, Ron Rash, Sarah Palin, North Carolina, Timber, Fiction, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, Media News
Jeff Biggers

As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.

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Publishing Is Dead. Long Live Publishing

Hugh McGuire | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Literature, Publishing, Writing, Books, Fiction, Web, Novels, Non-Fiction, Ebooks, Novel, Online CD Sales, Illegal Downloading, Media News
Hugh McGuire

There's going to be a shake-up, no doubt. It'll be ugly for publishing companies that don't adjust.

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Maureen Dowd and Jon Stewart: Senator Obama Has a Sense of Humor Do You?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Novels, Jon Stewart, The Election, The New Yorker, Senator Obama, Maureen Dowd, Humor, New Yorker Barack Obama, Barack Obama New Yorker Cover, Media News
Frank Schaeffer

There are worse things than being serious. Being robbed of a country that that we can be proud of is one. We are voting for Obama to restore hope and national pride, without which laughter makes no sense.

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