Dick Francis, Novelist, Dies at 89 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Best-selling crime writer Dick Francis, who drew on his experience as a successful steeplechase jockey for his racing thrillers, has died aged 89, the BBC said on Sunday. Francis rode more than 350 winners, and was champion jockey before injury forced him to take […]
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Do E-Readers Cause Eye Strain? – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com: The act of reading is going through a number of radical transitions, but perhaps none is more fundamental than the shift from reading on paper to reading on screens. As consumers decide whether to make this jump and which technology to use, one key question
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Mississippi Plantation Diary That Inspired William Faulkner Discovered – NYTimes.com: The climactic moment in William Faulkner’s 1942 novel ‘Go Down, Moses’ comes when Isaac McCaslin finally decides to open his grandfather’s leather farm ledgers with their ‘scarred and cracked backs’ and ‘yellowed pages scrawled in fading ink’ — proof of his family’s slave-owning past. Now,
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The Guild of Book Workers – The National Organization For All The Book Arts: “A book worker is one engaged in the hand book arts, which includes “bookbinding, conservation, printing, papermaking, calligraphy, marbling and artist’s books.” The Guild of Book Workers is a century-plus-old American organization that sponsors workshops, lectures, and exhibitions. Their website is
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J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author, Dies at 91 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to
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A Deluge of Devices for Reading and Surfing – NYTimes.com: You’ve heard of Amazon.com’s Kindle. And you probably know that Apple is likely to introduce a tablet computer this year. Soon you may also be hearing about the Alex, the Que proReader and the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid. Those products are part of a new wave
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A Novel? Padgett Powell’s Book Defies Genre : NPR: The question mark that accompanies the subtitle of author Padgett Powell’s new book, The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? might seem flippant. But Powell’s book earns that bit of punctuation. The Interrogative Mood is composed entirely of questions. Some of them are laugh out loud funny, some
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Books – Sherlock Holmes, Shapeshifter – Robert Downey Jr.’s Version – NYTimes.com: Arthur Conan Doyle grew so to hate his greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, that in 1893 he tried to kill him off, plunging him over the Reichenbach Falls. He called it ‘justifiable homicide,’ saying, ‘If I had not killed him, he would certainly have
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Julianna Baggott – The key to literary success? Be a man — or write like one. – washingtonpost.com: This fall, Publishers Weekly named the top 100 books of 2009. How many female writers were in the top 10? Zero. How many on the entire list? Twenty-nine. In the Washington Post, author and creative writing teacher
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Top book picks for 2010 / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com: “The experts tell us what they are excited about reading in 2010” Oh, good grief. A “best books of the year” list for 2010 already, and it’s only January 4. At any rate, here are recommendations from some book store owners about books
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