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Ex-Penn State Coaches To Get Millions

AP | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Jay Paterno, Video, Penn State Football, Penn State Scandal, Tim O'Brien, Penn State Severance, Joe Paterno, Penn State Assistant Coaches, Penn State Coaches, Sports News

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State could pay out millions of dollars in severance to a half-dozen assistants who weren't retained by new head coach...

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The Storyteller & Paradise Lost: Conversations With Todd Snider and Great American Taxi's Vince Herman

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Eric McConnell, The Del McCoury Band, Leftover Salmon, Don Was, Todd Snider, John Prine, Jason D. Williams, James McMurtry, Jimmy Buffett, The Coral Reefer Band, Tim O'Brien, Great American Taxi, Don Henley, Hank Williams, The Partridge Family, Bob Mercer, Rush Limbaugh, The Sopranos, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Ben Kaufman, Bob Dylan, Bobby Bare, New Grass Revival, Vince Herman, Jeff Austin, Hot Rize, Jackson Browne, The Band, Robert Earl Keen, Shel Silverstein, Tonder Mountain Strong Band, Justin Bieber, Video, Entertainment News

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Two Hats For Today's Writers (and 10 Awful Truths)

Christopher Meeks | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Steven Piersanti, Social Media, Book Publishing, Christopher Meeks, Book Marketing, Writing, Tim O'Brien, John Locke, Book Sales, Creative Writing, Darcie Chan, Redroom, Raymond Carver, Books News

Today's writer needs to wear two hats: those of the artist and of the marketer.

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Hymns, Harrows, Harvests & More: Chatting with John Hiatt, Gillian Welch and Umphrey's McGee's Joel Cummins

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Jim Keltner, Alison Krauss, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Lost Boys, Norman Blake, Queen, Hall & Oates, The Blue Sky Boys, John Hiatt, The Stanley Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Tim O'Brien, Rosanne Cash, The Habit of Being, Joe Clark, Ryan Stasik, Jimmy Stewart, Dave Rawlings, Roger Taylor, Elvis Costello, B.B. King, The Monroe Brothers, Umphrey's Mcgee, The Delmore Brothers, The Jeff Healey Band, T-Bone Burnett, The Artist's Way, Ralph Stanley, The Everly Brothers, Paul Newman, Little Village, Molly O'Brien, Ry Cooder, Brendan Bayliss, Flannery O'Connor, Gillian Welch, Nick Lowe, Mike Miro, Richard Thompson, Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment News

John Hiatt's new album Dirty Jeans And Mudslide Hymns kicks off with a pretty universally themed song, "Damn This Town." It's true, no matter what town you grow up in, every kid can't wait to get out of it.

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Ripley's Introduces World's First Sword Swallowing App: iSword

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Dan Meyer Sword Swallower, Ripley's, Weird Apps, Guinness World Records, Sword Swallowing, Weird Tech, Apple Apps, Tim O'Brien, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Isword, Weird News News

Sword swallowing isn't for everyone. In fact, it's for hardly anyone, which is why there are only a few dozen professionals swallowing swords. "It ...

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Scars On 45's New Video and Download, Plus Chatting with Vanessa Carlton, Dan Bern and David Bromberg

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Peter Gabriel, Mavis Staples, Ron Fair, Phil Ochs, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Amy Helm, Levon Helm, Steely Dan, Woody Guthrie, Counting Crows, David Bromberg, Dan Bern, Tim O'Brien, Cunliffe Merriwether, Adam Duritz, My Morning Jacket, Larry Campbell, Elvis Costello, Stevie Nicks, Ted Leone, Vince Gill, George Harrison, Joe Radcliffe, Dr. John, The McGarrigle Sisters, Patrick Hallahan, Stephen Hawkings, Vanessa Carlton, Steve Osborne, Paul Siebel, Miley Cyrus, Quitting Science, Los Lobos, Merle Haggard, Widespread Panic, John Hiatt, Byron Isaacs, Link Wray, Carly Simon, Ahmet Ertegun, Gary Nicholson, Willie Nelson, Get HIm to the Greek, A Brief History of Time, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Richard Adams, Mark Moss, Bob Dylan, John Hill, Gary White, Keb' Mo', Stephen Jenkins, Glenn Patscha, Dick Gregory, Jay Unger, Jimmy Iovine, Peter Ecklund, George Jones, Jerry Scheff, The Butcher Brothers, Phoebe Snow, Watership Down, Bruce Springsteen, Electar, Ollabelle, Entertainment News

Here's the latest video by the Chop Shop Records' act Scars On 45, the title track to their Give Me Something EP.

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What It's Like to Live Next to Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Frances Beinecke | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Appalachia, Music-Saves-Mountains, Mountaintop Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Tim-Obrien, West Virginia, Gulf Oil Spill, Bobby Kennedy, Coal, Coal Mining, Green News

The Last Mountain shows that people living near these mines pay a high price for America's addiction to fossil fuels.

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Mollie O'Brien: New CD, Saintly Sinnin' Sound

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sinners & Saints, Live Performance, Broadway Music, Music, CD Release, Denver, New York City, Tom Waits, Mollie O'Brien, Ophelia String Band, Tim O'Brien, Rich Moore, Swing Music, Family Life, Swallow Hil, Americana Music, Denver News

Denver-based, nationally adored Americana singer Mollie O'Brien's big musical "Yes" started with a big New York City "No."

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25 Novels You Can Read on a Beach Without Embarrassing Yourself (PHOTOS, POLL)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Peter Temple, Goethe, James Salter, Alan Furst, Tim O'Brien, Arthur C. Clarke, Pearl Buck, John Cheever, Slidepollajax, Books News

This summer, I'm thinking Reading Lite. An iced drink, (make mine an Arnold Palmer). A cool breeze. A careful application of sunscreen. A thin book, so I can get through it and still grab some zzzs. Books like these.

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Father's Day Gift Ideas: Huffington Post Readers Pick Great Books To Give To Dad (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, The Things They Carried, Readers' Picks, Tim O'Brien, Fathers, Hitch-22, Books, Father's Day Books, Father's Day, Father's Day Gift Ideas, Bestsellers, Books News

Last week, blogger Jesse Kornbluth came up with a list of 10 books that would make great gifts for Father's Day. As usual, HuffPost Books readers had ...

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NY Assignment Desk: Tim O'Brien, Taco Eating Contest, St. Patty's Day Pub Crawl

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Rebecca Harrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Tim O'Brien, New York, St Patrick's Day, Taco Eating Contest, Brooklyn, Eyes and Ears, New York News

Huffington Post continues its local coverage with the help of the Eyes&Ears Citizen Journalism Unit. To join the local reporting team and receive adva...

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Writing About War

The New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Soldiers, War Writing, War Books, Books, Writing, War, Tim O'Brien, War Novels, Books News

Soldier-writers have long produced American literature, from Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs about the Civil War to Norman Mailer's World War II novel, "Th...

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Storytelling Lessons From the Boy in the Balloon

Celeste Ng | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Balloon Boy, Falcon Heene Balloon, Storytelling, Falcon Heene, Stories, Writing, Tim O'Brien, Fiction, Books News

I'm not sure what life-lessons we're supposed to learn from this whole crazy mess, but the episode of the boy in the balloon tells us a lot about what we want in stories, and how to tell a good one.

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Veterans Day: 10 Classic American War Books (POLL)

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Michael Herr, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Books, Veterans Day, War and Remembrance, Slidepoll, Jarhead, A Farewell to Arms, War Novels, Thin Red Line, Bestsellers, Great War Books, Joseph Heller, Dispatch, The Things They Carried, Caputo, War Books, Tim O'Brien, American War Books, Catch-22, Stephen Crane, Classic War Books, The Red Badge of Courage, Books News

In honor of Veterans Day, we've put together a list of 10 great American war books. These range from the timeless classics to the modern, from those t...

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What is Work? Listening to Inspiration, With Songwriter Darrell Scott

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Listening, Inspiration, Darrell Scott, Long Time Gone, Tim O'Brien, Steve Earle, Hit Songs, Meditation, Dixie Chicks, Songwriting, Job Creation, Happiness Tips, Happiness, Gary Ogan, Cherokee, Colorado, Nashville, Entertainment News

Two years ago, during a working trip to Lyons, musician Darrell Scott visited an energy healer. It changed the way he thinks about music.

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HuffPost Reviews: Leonard Cohen - Live In London / Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! / Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Linda Ronstadt, Dino Soldo, Richard Thomspon, John Paul Jones, The Chieftains, Jimmie Rogers, Tim O'Brien, Cylon, Capitol Records, Dave Rawlings, Battlestar Galactica, Neil Diamond, Kris Kristofferson, Led Zeppelin, Robbie Robertson, Bela Fleck, The McGarrigle Sisters, Sean Watkins, New Wave, Sara Watkins, Benmont Tench, Punk, Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch, U2, Warner Bros Records, Bow Wow Wow, Entertainment News, Rickie Lee Jones, Bill Adama, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Buckley, Bob Metzger, Pop, O2 Arena, The Webb Sisters, Chrissie Hynde, Adidas, The Strokes, Kate Voegle, Bob Wills, Paul Simon, Chris Eldridge, Sharon Robinson, Edie Brickell, Rock, Nickel Creek, Nick Zinner, Rafael Bernardo Gayol, Steve Lillywhite, Rayna Gellert, Ronnie McCoury, The Louvin Brothers, Jon Mark, White Stripes, Alex Woodard, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elektra Records, Bob Marley, Dan Wilson, Chris Thile, Javier Mas, Avenue C, Karen O, Laura Roslin, Roscoe Beck, Alternative, Bob Dylan, New York City, Tom Waits, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Rea, Ben Lee, Jon Brion, Annabella, Svengali, I-Threes, Entertainment News

Leonard's voice really has grown better over the years, Yeah Yeah's new album is 42 minutes of electronically retro-licious pop, and Sara Watkins is as a serious lyricist with a mission.

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