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Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: Remembrance of Crooked Deeds Past
"To mark the publication of the newest anthology edited by Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels From the Time of Sherlock Holmes, Art Taylor hosts a Q&A and gets Sims talking about all manner of subjects, but especially [...]
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Authors fight free books site Scribd for ‘pirating’ their work - Times Online
"Publishers and agents representing the authors J. K. Rowling and Ken Follett were battling last night to get free copies of their novels removed from a Californian website that claims to be the most popular literary site in the world.
"Scribd.com attracts 55 million [...]
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Book Review - 'A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century,' by Jane Vandenburgh - Review - NYTimes.com
A graphic review by Alison Bechdel.
Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: The War to Settle the Score (and the Future of Book Publishing)
"TST was the third question-asker and inquired (plainly, we thought) why publishers act with suspicion and [...]
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How books got their titles
"Each of these posts gives the story behind a famous title of world literature. Some of these stories appear in my book Why Not Catch-21?"
Fun stuff.
Retaliatory lawsuit against Writer Beware staff dismissed
'A Massachusetts Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Ann Crispin and Victoria Strauss, the principal operators of the [...]
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See if you agree with Kelly about whether Catch-22 is a successful film adaptation. I love the movie despite it faults, or maybe because of them, or perhaps because it so perfectly captures a certain Hollywood era. Alan Arkin, who never seems to give a bad performance, plays the best role of his career in [...]
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RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism | RDBook | ReligionDispatches
Ten Questions for Kathryn Joyce on Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, (Beacon Press, 2009).
Ward Six: Endings. What are they supposed to be, exactly?
'Is it "closure" people want? I hope not. Resolution? The pieces fitting together? High drama? Secrets revealed? Lyrical flights? Somebody help me out here. [...]
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Bible Stories in Cockney Rhyming Slang - book information - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
"Bible Stories in Cockney Rhyming Slang by Keith Park
'Cos they didn't
Adam and Eve it
When God said 'Oi!
Apple - leave it!
This innovative collection of Bible stories, written in cockney rhyming slang, is a fresh and fun approach to learning about the Bible. From Adam [...]
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Storyglossia: Storyglossia Issue 33 is live!
"STORYGLOSSIA Issue 33 is now live and open to submissions! With this issue I decided to try something different: launch the issue with two killer stories and then challenge writers to respond with submissions equal to this high bar.....The writing in these two stories is risky, courageous, and heartbreaking, which [...]
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In conjunction with Architecture Design Week,
New Dominion Bookshop will host
Russell Versaci
who will discuss and sign copies of his book
Roots of Home
Our Journey to a New Old House
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at Noon
From the earliest colonial styles to current designs that honor and reflect the past, Roots of Home is a visually stunning journey tracing the [...]