Tag: fiction
member name: Chris Steib
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December 24, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
I may regret announcing this resolution to my fellow Gatherers, but I have officially challenged myself to read 50 books in 2008. Quick math shows that I'm signed up to ingest a book about every . . .
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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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July 15, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Ah, summer. The season in which we customarily choose books by virtue of their cover art or their ability to fit neatly into a beach bag. But just because it's summer doesn't mean you have to . . .
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May 06, 2008 10:39 AM EDT --
This year, I decided to read 50 books for my New Year's Resolution . I'm a little behind schedule, staring down book #14 right now ( The Audiacity of Hope ), which I'm reading on my Sony Reader. . . .
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June 24, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
With beach season now upon us, publishers are undoubtedly in full-swing summer-reading mode, paying exorbitant sums of cash to stock B&N's front-list tables with disposable mass-market fodder. . . .
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November 20, 2008 10:30 AM EST --
File this one under "Award-winning books I will never read," the National Book Award in Fiction was given yesterday to Peter Matthiessen , a prolific novelist and non-fiction writer of more . . .
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September 27, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
“We live in a world that could only have been dreamed up by Graham Greene and Franz Kafka on a weekend bender, with George Orwell along to write slogans.” -- Jess Walter, from the afterward . . .
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November 30, 2008 04:19 PM EST --
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced earlier this month a 2% decrease in domestic net book sales from August to September -- with a 1.5% decrease year-to-year.
Hardcovers crashed . . .
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December 30, 2008 02:56 PM EST --
In what appears to be indicative of the overall economic kick-in-the-pants, book sales slumped more than 20% in October, according to the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Though only down 3.4% . . .
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January 13, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
For those unaware, this year I pledged to read 50 books as my literary New Year's resolution. I'm on target so far, having read two and finishing my third today or tomorrow (depending on whether . . .
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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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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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November 10, 2008 12:33 AM EST --
Okay, quick and dirty. I've been sitting on this post for a while, and I just keep adding books to it. So I'm going to blow through each review as fast as possible and still try to get across . . .
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August 05, 2009 05:50 PM EDT --
NBA's site features a visual list of the 77 fiction-prize winners over the last six decades of handing out the Award. Sadly, I've only read five of them in their entirety, and snippets of others. . . .
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February 21, 2007 01:24 PM EST --
Jumping on the bandwagon of industries claiming to be totally screwed by China's 90% piracy rate, American publishers told Congress last week that the conservative estimate for their losses due to . . .
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May 18, 2009 04:47 PM EDT --
It can be argued that the web has done many things for literature, but one of my favorites is how the digital era has lowered the barrier of entry for conversation around books. Amazon, Shelfari, . . .
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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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