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Fifty States of Literature, Starting With Alabama

Fifty States of Literature, Starting With Alabama | Columbia Spectator The Spectator here supplies you, free of charge, the first of a list of 50 books that we think capture the essence of each state, all while telling a great story along the way. The Spectator, the campus publication of Columbia University in New York […]

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Hollywood writers turn to Plan B: the novel

Hollywood writers turn to Plan B: the novel – Los Angeles Times In case you’re wondering what screenwriters are doing with all their free time during the strike, the Los Angeles Times reports that some of them are working on their novels. One agent points out that, because scripts and novels require very different types

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Greatest stories never told: Ten famous writers reveal their works that never made it into print

Greatest stories never told: Ten famous writers reveal their works that never made it into print – Features, Books – Independent.co.uk George Steiner’s My Unwritten Books provided the impetus for this humor piece, in which several authors describe their “nasty pile of debris, of aborted riffs, stillborn metaphors and banished chapters.”

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