Tag: writing
member name: Chris Steib
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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 21, 2009 10:42 AM EDT --
Slagging book sales, be damned! Two publishing vets banded together to launch a new bookshop this weekend in the cozy community of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. With a combined 25 years in the books biz, Jessica . . .
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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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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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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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July 20, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
Using an exacto knife and old pulp novels, American photographer/artist Thomas Allen created a series of delightful diaramas that spotlight the quirky appeal to the classic paperback genre. Shot in . . .
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May 28, 2009 12:25 PM EDT --
Anyone who has ever participated in a book club -- and especially those who failed to read the book -- will find this all-too familiar. Funny or Die (the video-comedy site from Will Ferrell , et al) . . .
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June 03, 2009 11:00 AM EDT --
Print is dead...long live print! Defying struggling book sales and a sluggish economy, two award-winning book nerds set out to open a brick-and-mortar book store.
Jessica Stockton Bagnulo ( of the . . .
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February 15, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
Dear "Poets,"
We want to (sort of) thank you for another batch of some of the worst love poems we've ever seen. Paired with the absolutely atrocious weather today in Manhattan, we can . . .
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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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January 29, 2007 10:16 AM EST --
Others may have said it to you before, but rarely, I assure you, with such steadfast and sincere admiration. Perhaps you’ve heard it after a night of karaoke, or when tinkering unknowingly with a . . .
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February 07, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
The good people at the Association of American Publishers announced today the book sales figures for 2006, showing that the industry dropped by a slim 0.2%, down to $10.03 billion from $10.04 billion in . . .
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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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January 28, 2009 07:39 PM EST --
So let's say you're an author: you've written the book, gone through the agent-and-editor process, found distribution, and actually saw your book in print and for sale online. Now you need . . .
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August 22, 2008 11:32 PM EDT --
In this edition: Meth! Naked hula-hooping! Smellavision! Gunslinging amnesiacs! All in a fortnight's work.
Welcome back to the 50 Book Blog after my latest hiatus. Yeah, yeah. I know. Being . . .
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August 16, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
I HAD the PLEASURE of meeting with Jo Umans (Executive Director) and Denise Bell (Director of Development) a few weeks ago over coffee to discuss Behind the Book as a potential beneficiary. . . .
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July 28, 2009 11:31 AM EDT --
In an overdue attempt to attract more tech-wielding squatters, Barnes & Noble today announced a deal with AT&T to pump free wi-fi into its 777 locations. According to CEO Steve Riggio, . . .
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February 05, 2007 12:25 AM EST --
When the famous gambler Canada Bill visited Baton Rouge in the late 1880s, he searched all over town for action until eventually coming across a Faro game in the back of a barber shop. When his friend . . .
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