August 2009

Dominick Dunne, Writer Who Chronicled High-Profile Crime, Is Dead at 83

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Dominick Dunne, Writer Who Chronicled High-Profile Crime, Is Dead at 83 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Dominick Dunne, who gave up producing movies in midlife and reinvented himself as a best-selling author, magazine writer, television personality and reporter whose celebrity often outshone that of his subjects, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was […]

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Book Review – ‘Get Real,’ by Donald E. Westlake

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Book Review – ‘Get Real,’ by Donald E. Westlake – Review – NYTimes.com: The New York Times offers a review of Donald Westlake’s final novel: After watching a bare-chested dentist trekking through the jungle by torchlight to shake a spear at a sunburned accountant in a loincloth, you might think television reality shows were beyond

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“I shall not be Kindled”

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I shall not be Kindled | csmonitor.com: Earlier in the decade, before the so-called ‘tech bubble’ burst, then-Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned of ‘irrational exuberance’ in the stock market. I feel the same way about electronic readers. And I feel that articles like this miss the point. I have always been a fan of

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Time-travel romances abound onscreen — latimes.com

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Time-travel romances abound onscreen — latimes.com: This review of the recently opened movie version of The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger contains a list of other time-traveling films.

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Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less | csmonitor.com

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Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less | csmonitor.com: Thanks to Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle, e-book sales are finally zooming, after more than a decade in the doldrums. But the pioneering device may not dominate the market for long. As Castaldo found, many phones are now sophisticated enough, and have good enough screens, to be

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