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latimes.com » Jacket Copy - Sep 23, 2008
Today, the MacArthur Foundation announced the 2008 recipients of its fellowships, known as "genius" grants. The list includes scientists, doctors, artists, musicians and two writers: 40-year-old Alex Ross and …
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thegoldenpencil.com » The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource - Sep 23, 2008
(www.thegoldenpencil.com) One of the finalists in Michael Stelzner’s Top 10 Blogs For Writers is The Book Deal . Subtitled “An Inside View Of Publishing,” it’s written by Alan Rinzler who bills himself as a Consulting …
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latimes.com » Jacket Copy - Sep 23, 2008
Author Neil Gaiman is heading to the U.S. to promote his latest novel, "The Graveyard Book," and the tour will be a little unusual. Kicking off in New York on Sept. 30, Gaiman will read a chapter at each stop …
lisnews.com » LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News - Sep 23, 2008
Attempting to tell an author's life through the books he read is a risky enterprise. In this remarkable new biography of Oscar Wilde, Thomas Wright makes a convincing start with his claim that books were the greatest …
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mediabistro.com » mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Sep 23, 2008
Three years ago, high school student Stephen Beirne was diagnosed with chordoma, a malignant tumor that forms on the spine and the base of the skull. During the months of surgical and chemotherapy procedures aimed at …
mediabistro.com » mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Sep 23, 2008
From the New Yorker obituary for David Foster Wallace : "In his fiction, he aimed at capturing the authentic rhythms of speech and thought, even when doing so meant breaking the rules of writing (rules that Wallace …
mediabistro.com » mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Sep 22, 2008
FishbowlNY already has an interview with Alex Ross , the classical music critic for the New Yorker and the author of The Rest Is Noise, about being named one of this year's 25 recipients of a $500,000 fellowship from …
latimes.com » Jacket Copy - Sep 22, 2008
Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of "Anne of Green Gables" and its sequels, died in 1942 at her own hand, her granddaughter revealed Saturday in Canada's "Globe and Mail." The paper had run a series of articles on mental …
mediabistro.com » mediabistro.com: GalleyCat - Sep 22, 2008
In light of Penelope Trunk's comments last week that you may be better off not writing a book, bestselling management advisor Tom Peters makes an interesting comment in a recent interview with Debbie Weil , the social …
latimes.com » Jacket Copy - Sep 21, 2008
In books this Sunday, our lead story is on Kathleen Norris, the poet and author. Her new book, "Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life" is a personal study of "acedia" -- dark thoughts that are part …
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