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member name: Chris Steib
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April 24, 2009 03:46 PM EDT --
Tragic story out of Arkansas this week about non-fiction author David McElyea, who committed suicide on Wednesday in a Wal-Mart in Fayetteville. Author of " When Money Grows On Trees ," . . .
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September 26, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
Photographer Kyle Cassidy always wondered if there "was a connection between the places that writers work and their work itself" -- and to answer the question, he selected 20 Science Fiction authors . . .
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October 23, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
Here's a quickie for those interested in the slow, painful death of the printed word: Jeff Gomez, author of the forthcoming book Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age , is talking the talk . . .
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February 10, 2008 10:33 PM EST --
So, I'm a little behind on my 50-book goal for 2008, but with a five-day impromptu vacation to upstate NY coming up next week, I hope to get back on track and be on book eight by the end of February . . .
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March 11, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
A few days ago, I sat down for a little GTalk with my old friend, fellow writer, and man of many digital hats, Adam Maxwell . In our interview, he shares his insight on such things as: the effect a new . . .
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March 21, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
When it was first published in the early 1980s, Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero was dubbed "Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation" by that all-knowing literary oracle USA Today (snark). . . .
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April 14, 2008 10:46 PM EDT --
As expected, I really fell behind on my goal to read 50 books this year, but a few quick classics and some forthcoming poetry reads should put me back on track. For this segment (my first in nearly two . . .
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April 19, 2008 02:43 PM EDT --
The 50-book warpath continues, and this time the bodies on the battlements include a rapturous poetry read by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a tiresome tale of unrealistic romance from the former editor of . . .
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March 20, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
Dana Adam Shapiro is the author of the darkly comic and heartwarmingly quirky novel The Every Boy (read an excerpt here). A former senior editor of Spin and a founder of Icon magazine, Dana also . . .
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May 21, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
I stumbled on this self-publishing company called Lulu today (I was actually looking for LaLa.com ), and was impressed with the quality and breadth of offerings on the site. With more than a dozen . . .
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March 06, 2008 07:27 AM EST --
There's a lot of uncertainty and debate -- particularly among Gatherers -- about the future of books in the digital age, and I wanted to bring to light a few recent developments that may hint at a . . .
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January 27, 2009 02:53 PM EST --
January 28, 2009, 2:56pm : John Updike, one of American's most prolific modern writers, lost a battle with lung cancer this morning, according to Nicholas Latimer of Alfred A. Knopf, a division . . .
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April 06, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
Print may not be dead quite yet, but a recent literary initiative by the Los Angeles Times could relegate the paper's native medium as an afterthought to its digitally rendered sibling. In the . . .
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August 18, 2009 07:03 PM EDT --
HarperCollins announced a 20.6% drop in revenue for the quarter ending June 30, 2009, Publisher's Weekly reports . Citing -- among other things -- a decline in book sales, CEO Brian Murray admitted . . .
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August 30, 2007 01:39 PM EDT --
I caught up earlier today with New York-based author Clay McLeod Chapman, who is both a very talented writer and a very good friend of mine. Author of rest area and miss corpus, and creator of the totally-kick-ass . . .
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