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"The Marne 1914": A Bold New Account (PHOTOS)

Holger H. Herwig | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: History, Military History, Historians, Wwi, World War I, Writing, Authors, New Books, Battle of the Marne, Books, Nonfiction, The Marne, Slideshow, Books News

I wanted to write about the Battle of the Marne because I regard it as the most decisive land battle since the Allies defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. I regard its impact to have been spectacular.

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"Monuments Men": Saving Historic Structures in Wartime

Robert M. Edsel | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Nazis, Monuments, Writing, Self-Publishing, Art, Wwii, Books, World War II, Monuments Men, Architecture, Ponte Vecchio, Books News

I am driven by my passion to tell the story of a group of men and women who volunteered for service during World War II to save the greatest structures and other priceless works of art from destruction.

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Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter Up For Auction

The New York Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, The Road, Manual Typewriter, Books, Writing, Typewriters, No Country for Old Men, Christie's, Cormac McCarthy the Road, Cormac McCarthy, Books News

Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more -- and nea...

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The Story of Another Manual Typewriter's Journey

Carol Hoenig | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Olivetti Typewriter, Barbie, Writing, New York Times, Upstate New York, Smith & Corona, Passion, Long Island, Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer, Writers, Authors, Books, Typewriters, Manual Typewriters, Books News

When other girls were asking for Barbie dolls, I was wishing for a typewriter, one that would actually tap out a world of my own creation.

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Rick Moody Tweets A Short Story

Wall Street Journal | Alexandra Alter | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

Read More: Short Stories, Fiction, Rick Moody, Twitterfiction, Writing, Authors, New Media, Twitter, Writing Fiction, Books, Twitter Fiction, The Ice Storm, Books News

For the next three days, author Rick Moody will be delivering a new short story in 153 Tweets, in hourly increments. Mr. Moody's Twitter story is bein...

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Postcards From the Fun-Employed, Part Deux

Paula Froelich | Posted 11.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Page Six, Marriage, The Met, Simon & Schuster, Children, Atria, Writing, Africa, Novels, Novelists, George Clooney, Paula Froelich, Books News

I started writing a novel called "Female Kryptonite." It was about Jim - a never married, successful (in business and with the ladies), 40-something who starts to realize he's lonely.

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Meet Haiku Herman--Europe's New Poet President

John Lundberg | Posted 11.29.2009 | Living

Read More: European Council, Prime Minister, Art, Herman Van Rombuy, Haiku, Writing, Europe, Belgium, Poetry, Poem, John Lundberg, Living News

Van Rompuy is becoming known throughout the continent for his passion for writing poetry. Dubbed "Haiku Herman" by the British press, he is said to regularly compose haikus during his daily meetings.

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Sarah Palin Snags Ziggy Honors

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Egomaniac, Going Rogue, Carnivores, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Writing, Palin, Going Rogue Reviews, Sigmund Freud, Frank Rich, Costco, Memoir, Books News

Maybe there was something about Ms. Palin that everyone had missed. Maybe the secret of her attraction would finally, suddenly, become dazzlingly clear to me.

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Anne Rice On Her Switch To Angels

wowOwow | Joni Evans | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books

Read More: New Anne Rice, Anne Rice, Vampires, Angel Time, Writing, Anne Rice Angel Time, Authors, Author Interviews, Books, Angels, Interview With the Vampire, Books News

"Just write. That's what makes us a writer, is we write. I mean, if we don't do that we're not writers. And it's so important not to be discouraged, b...

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Crowdsourcing Content and Demand: Andrew Sullivan's "View From Your Window" Book

Eileen Gittins | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Publishing, Photography Books, Andrew Sullivan, Blurb, Writing, Photographs, Bloggers, Books, Crowdsourcing, Self-Publishing, Books News

For three years, Sullivan had been inviting his blog community to upload pictures of the view from their windows. He wanted to compile a selection of these images into a book that captures the breadth and width of the web.

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Balanced Life -- Try Fun, Quick Exercises To Boost Your Creativity

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Novel-Writing, Writing, Screenwriting, Happiness, Living News

Doing these types of games can boost happiness -- even for people who don't consider themselves to be particularly "creative."

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On The Road

Joy Preble | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Dreaming Anastasia, Advice-to-New-Authors, Debut Authors, Book Publishing, Michael Chabon, Chicago, Larry Day, Author, Writing, 57th-Street-Books, Book Promotion, Borders, Book Publicity, Naomi Wolf, Sarah Palin, Books News

These are the humbling moments in the debut author journey. The ones that remind you to hang onto that day job.

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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 11.21.2009 | Books

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