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A Big Win For Experimental Poetry

John Lundberg | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Avant Garde, Transcendental Studies, Writing, Postmodernism, Postmodern, Keith Waldrop, Verse, Poetry, John Lundberg, Communication, Living News

If you read a review of Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," this year's winner of the National Book Award, there's a good chance it will include the word "postmodern" or "avant-garde.

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How "Nana, What's Cancer?" Was Born

Beverlye Hyman Fead | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Cancer, Nana What's Cancer, American Cancer Society, Writing, Grandparents, Authors, Living With Cancer, I Can Do This, Books, Families, Books News

My granddaughter who was eight kept my book by her bedside and was fascinated with everything concerning it. One day she told her mother she wanted to do a book report on "I Can Do This."

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"There Is a Crack in Everything; That's How the Light Gets in"

Melanie Drane | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Mending, Re-Purpose, Re-Use, Critique, Restore, Workshop, Writing, Robert Johnson, Jane Hirshfield, Prompts, Repair, Poems, Breaking, Environment, Revision, Stories, Anu Tuominen, Revise, Jung, Books News

Mending is always accompanied by an element of risk. Something may function again, but differently, so that every successful re-use is accompanied by a sense of luck and relief.

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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

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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Congress: Protect American Writers and Publishers from Being Sued Overseas

Judy Platt | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: First Amendment Rights, Libel Tourism, Free Speech, Congress, Brazilian Law, Writing, Defamation, Brazil, Lawsuit, England, Funding Evil, Saudi Arabia, Libel, New York Times, Publishers, Air Traffic, Mahfouz, Books News

Your book's been published in the United States for an American audience. Someone who's mentioned in the book doesn't like what you've written and sues you for libel, but he doesn't sue you here, where the book has been published.

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My Voice

Xiaoda Xiao | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Censorship, Cultural Revolution, Mao, Political Prisoners, Chinese Prison Camps, China, Chinese Prison, Freedom of Speech, Writing, The Cave Man, Prison Camps, Mao Zedong, Books, Chinese Censorship, Books News

Under the strict censorship regulations of the current regime in China, the publication of any literary work that shows signs of penetrating in depth, or exposing the reality of prison life is forbidden.

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Why Do Writers Write?

Mark Coker | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Future of Publishing, Nanowrimo, Future of Books, Books, Writing, Ebooks, Writers' Brains, Writers, Brains, Brain Chemistry, Dopamine, Self-Publishing, Books News

Writers are artists, and artists are compelled to express themselves, even if only to an audience of one.

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The Best Writing Tips Ever

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Howl, Writing Teacher, Writers, Writing Tips, Writing, Meditation, Kaddish, Allen Ginsberg, Poetry, Books News

I've been in publishing for more than 20 years, I've attended my fair share of writer's conferences and workshops, and in my experience, the poet Alle...

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Sick of Sarah Palin's Book? Let's Talk About Writing And The Writers' Writer

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Writing, Literary Prizes, Best Writing, Best Writers, Writer's Writers, Slidepoll, William Gass, Paul Bowles, Henry Green, Barry Hannah, Jane Bowles, Stanley Elkin, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Flannery O'Connor, George Saunders, Alice Munro, Books News

These last two weeks seem to be all about books by non-writers and we felt it was time to change the conversation. We asked writers--colleagues and fr...

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Travels with Wells Tower, or Another Reason Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Travel, Media, Wells Tower, Writing, Journalism, Outside Magazine, Media News

Travel writing is mostly bad. It's partly the fault of the form. Sometimes, quality sneaks in. And every so often the glossies still let Paul Theroux into the works so as to keep their bonafides burnished.

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Get Famous Fast

Denise Brodey | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

You can mourn the death of publishing or you can start bushwhacking a new book trail. These women certainly have.

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"15 Minutes" vs. 90 Years: How the Algonquin Round-Table Went Viral Before the Internet

Nat Benchley | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Twitter, Algonquin Round Table, World War I, Writing, Criticism, Speeches, New York City, New York Events, Algonquin-Hotel, Journalism, New York News

Anywhere there is printing these days (ink or pixels), you will find references to the Algonquin Round Table. So, what is it with the adulation of a bunch of "tipsy quipsters"?

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All Hail, or Hurl -- The Hybrid Book is Here!

Tom Alderman | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Video, Kindle, Hybrid Books, Ipod, Vook, Level 26, Csi, Audiobooks, Ereaders, Simon & Schuster, Writing, Iphone, Vooks, Books, Ebooks, Anthony Zuiker, Nook, Digi-Novel, Ereader, Bestsellers, Books News

"Level 26: Dark Origins" is the first of it's kind, but it's just the beginning of a whole new species of hybrid books that may change the publishing landscape.

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Writing "Beyond Blue": Keeping My End of the Bargain

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Stigma, Suicide, Depression, Psychiatry, Writing, Authors, Anxiety, Mental Illness, Books, Mood Disorders, Beyond Blue, Therapy, Books News

Here I am. With my mission: to educate folks about mental illness and to offer support to those who, like myself, suffer from mood disorders.

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Journeys With George (Saunders), or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: George Saunders, Media Criticism, Print Journalism, Media, Writing, Books, Gq, David Foster Wallace, New Journalism, Books News

Like David Foster Wallace, Saunders appears in his own journalism as the bumbling journalist, but Saunders is more believable, which is to say that he is a bumbler, which is part of the charm.

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Moving the Needle

Nathan Bransford | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Writing, Book Publishing, Authors, Future of Publishing, Publishers, Books, New Media, Bestsellers, Books News

Editors want to take authors to the next level or make a splash with a debut. Publishers want to gain traction with new electronic formats. Sales and marketing teams want to make a splash. Everyone is desperate for a hit.

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Mary Karr Interview: "Lit" Part II

Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Writing Memoir, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Bestsellers, Catholicism, Cherry, Lit, Writers, Melville, Interview, Writing, Authors, The Liar's Club, Mary Karr Memoir, Author Interviews, Books, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Memoir, Books News

The following is a continuation of a Huffington Post interview with author Mary Karr on her new memoir, "Lit." You can read the first part here. Hu...

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Great Author Interviews With Barbara Kingsolver, Sapphire, and Mary Karr(AUDIO)

npr.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver the Lacuna, The Lacuna, Writers, Books, Writing, Mary Karr Lit, Precious, Lit, Authors, Npr, Sapphire Push, Sapphire, Radio, Push, Author Interviews, Mary Karr, Books News

NPR has a host of great author interviews every week, and we thought we'd bring you the best of the recent ones. Listen below for three really great o...

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Mary Karr Speaks To HuffPost Books About Her New Memoir "Lit"

The Huffington Post | Steve Ross | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

Read More: Cherry, Writing Memoir, Books, Writing, Author Interview, New Books, Mary Karr Lit, Lit, Interview, Bestsellers, Authors, The Liar's Club, Memoir, Mary Karr, Mary Karr Interview, Books News

The brouhaha that flared last week when "Publishers Weekly" announced its list of Top Ten Books of the Year, a list that garnered probably unwanted bu...

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STRIP & REBIND: Why Publicists Love the Word "No"

Cassie Ammerman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Book Reviews, Publicists, Publicity, Writing, Book Publishing, Blogs, Authors, Book Publicity, Biography, Books, Book Publicists, Newspapers, Books News

There is a word that publicists love almost as much as "yes." And it's "no." Seems counterintuitive, right? But it's true. There is little I love more than a solid "no."

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ISO My Twitter Persona

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 11.07.2009 | Books

Read More: Project Runway, Twitter, Writing, Books, Book Reviews, Book Promotion, Youtube, Branding, Facebook, Top Chef, Books News

I'd just had an event at a popular L.A. bookstore. I saw old friends, answered great questions, sold a good amount of books. But that next morning I realized: I hadn't tweeted it.

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Off the Shelf and on to the Big Screen!

Regina Brooks | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Young Adult, Writing, HUnger Games, Fiction, Twilight, Teen, Harry Potter, Vampire's Assistant, Movies, Books News

Hollywood continues to bring out the movies based on popular YA books, because the guarantee of an audience is just too good to pass up.

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

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Anne Rice, John Wray, Writers, Junot Diaz, Books, Writing, Writing Strategies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Writing Techniques, Nicholson Baker, Edwidge Danticat, Colum McCann, Laura Lippman, Authors, Kate Christensen, Richard Powers, Writer's Block, Orhan Pamuk, Writing Tips, Dan Chaon, Russell Banks, Hilary Mantel, Writing Secrets, Amitav Gosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

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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I Write With Dead People: How to Collaborate With a Corpse

Ben H. Winters | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Satire, Jane Austen Satire, Jane Austen, Writing, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Books, Sense and Sensibility, Bestsellers, Seamonsters, Books News

Writing with the deceased is not as easy as it sounds. For one thing, you're really on your own when it comes to publicity; our book came out two months ago, and Jane Austen has yet to turn up for a book signing.

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This Writer's Life: Why Write Memoir When Fiction is So Much More Respectable?

Rebecca Walker | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Irene Vilar, Writers, Writing Memoir, James Frey, Writing, Authors, Alice Walker, Books, Memoir, Fiction, Memoirists, Books News

I love the form and feel it is mine the way others feel poetry or the short story is theirs, but memoir is still seen as the first cousin of the tabloid, is it not?

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