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The Most Novels You've Read By an Author

Dave Astor | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Colette, Harper Lee, Ralph Ellison, L.M. Montgomery, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Herman Melville, Erich Maria Remarque, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy, Jack London, Books News
Dave Astor

My list includes the authors' names, the number of novels I've read by each of them, and my three favorite novels (in rank order) by each of them. If you have different favorites by those authors, I'd like to hear about that.

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Biking a Wild Isle in the Bay of Fundy

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Off-Kilter Biking, Grand Manan Island, Ministers Island, Wearing a Kilt, Single Track, Bald Eagle, The Inn at Whale Cove Cottages, St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, Atlantic Canada, Kurt Gumeschel, Baby Eaglet, Dual Suspension, Geoff Slater, Epic Mountain Bike Ride, New Brunswick, Willa Cather, Cannondale, New Brunswick Travel, Canada Travel, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Margie Goldsmith

Though my bruise is a bit smaller, I've been wearing shorts to show it off. When anyone asks, I tell them I fell of my bike during a rocky, rooty, muddy, wet and spectacular ride through the pristine wilderness of Grand Manan Island.

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The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History

Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Bronte, William Thackeray, Classic Novels, Emily Bronte, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Theodore Dreiser, Herman Melville, Honore De Balzac, Charlotte Bronte, Five Year Plan, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Great Authors, Alexandre Dumas, Willa Cather, Thornton Wilder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!

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All-time Authors Sometimes Deliver Duds

Dave Astor | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: John Steinbeck, Great Authors, Bad Novels, Stephen King, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Bad Books, Carson McCullers, Jack London, Great Author Bad Books, Author Book Fails, Books News
Dave Astor

Even great novelists occasionally write a clunker -- sort of a loose cannon in a canon. Often, the literary dud comes at or near the start of an author's career.

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Many a City Is 'Title Town'

Dave Astor | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Ford Madox Ford, Toronto, John Steinbeck, Chicago, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Boston, Edward Bellamy, Detroit Lions, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Atwood, Canada, Jules Verne, Detroit Institute of Arts, Amy Tan, Quebec City, Frida Kahlo, E.L. Doctorow, Phoenix, Terry McMillan, Diego Rivera, San Francisco, James Hilton, Ford Field, Willa Cather, Books News, Detroit, Books News
Dave Astor

Do you read so much fiction that visiting a city almost always reminds you of certain novels?

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Less Famous Literary Masterpieces

Dave Astor | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Canada, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, Toni Morrison, Erich Maria Remarque, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Harry Potter, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

There are plenty of cases where an author's masterpiece deserves the top billing it gets in the author's canon. But then there are the cases where a writer's most famous book is not the writer's best book.

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PHOTOS: Authors And The Trees That Inspired Them

Richard Horan | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Famous American Authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Famous Authors, Seeds, American Authors, Willa Cather, Muhammad Ali, Thomas Jefferson, Authors, Books News
Richard Horan

On a family vacation from Wisconsin to Dauphin Island, Alabama, we stopped at Lincoln's home in Springfield, IL to take a tour. In the front parlor there was a photograph of Honest Abe hanging on the wall.

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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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Get Thee to a Library! Unsung Hero of 41st St: Library Way

Lily Bevan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Wilde, Muriel Rukeyser, Descartes, Libraries, Josi Marti, Tom Stoppard, Willa Cather, Nypl, Stephen Schwarzman, New York News
Lily Bevan

Where better to joke about the tumultuous nature of literature than on a plaque the size of a puddle on the approach to one of the most important libraries in the world.

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Celebrating Divine Love This Valentine's Day

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: St Valentine's Day, Forgiving, New Wealth Book Blog, Lao Tse, Meditation, Dr John-Roger, Mary Baker Eddy, Willa Cather, Florence Scovel-Shinn, Peace, Beauty, Divine Love, Valentine's Day, Healthy Living News
Anne Naylor

Whether you are with your loved one this Valentine's Day, or on your own, you can be celebrating Divine Love. What is Divine Love? How it any different from regular old love? And how can you celebrate it?

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12 Months of Great Reads

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Natural, The Fixer, Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, Remains of the Day, Reading Groups, Bernard Malamud, One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest, Blindness, Sherman Alexie, Willa Cather, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jose Saramago, Ken Kesey, Pioneers, Midnight's Children, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Irwin Shaw, Christmas Memory, Book Groups, Of Human Bondage, Girls in Their Dresses, Edith Wharton, Kenneth C. Davis, Other Rooms, O, Sometimes a Great Notion, James Joyce, Killer Angels, Michael Shaara, Don't Know Much About Literature, Truman Capote, Alice Walker, Books, Age of Innocence, Color Purple, Classic Literature, Other Voices, Dubliners, Books News
Kenneth C. Davis

Here are my twelve: Each book celebrates the birth month of an author, a holiday or some other event connected to that month.

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Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Wright, Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur, Mies Van Der Rohe, Boston, Richard J. Daley, Harvard FacultyClub, The Front Page, Sean Connery, Warren G. Harding, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Nelson Algren, Steve Neal, Theodore Roosevelt, James T. Farrell, Happy Days Are Here Again, Sy Hersh, Richard M. Daley, Willa Cather, Grover Cleveland, Stud Terkel, Al Capone, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, H.H. Richardson, John Kass, Finley Peter Dunne, Franklin Roosevelt, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Barack Obama, Howard Hawks, Blackstone Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower, David Thomson, Rahm Emanuel, Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Abraham Lincoln, 1968 Demorcatic National Convention, Chicago News
Martin Nolan

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

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