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Writers Read: Nick Holdstock
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015. S fiction and essays have appeared in a wide range of US and UK publications, including The London Review of Books. And Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of The Tree That Bleeds: A Uighur Town on the Edge. A book about life in China's Xinjiang province, and China's Forgotten People. Holdstock's new novel is The Casualties. Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. His reply:. Visit Nick Holdstock's website. Posted by Marshal Zeringue. The Page 69 Test.
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MY BOOK, THE MOVIE: Justin Gifford's "Street Poison"
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MY BOOK, THE MOVIE. They would ask me what actors I saw in the roles. I would tell them, and they’d say “Oh that’s interesting.” And that would be the end of it. - Elmore Leonard, in 2000, on the extent of his input for Hollywood's adaptation of his novels. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Justin Gifford's "Street Poison". Was a finalist for both the Edgar Allan Poe award for literary criticism and Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award for scholarship. And a handful of other streetwise crime novels with a third-...
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MY BOOK, THE MOVIE: Sara Nickerson's "The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose & Me"
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MY BOOK, THE MOVIE. They would ask me what actors I saw in the roles. I would tell them, and they’d say “Oh that’s interesting.” And that would be the end of it. - Elmore Leonard, in 2000, on the extent of his input for Hollywood's adaptation of his novels. Saturday, August 8, 2015. Sara Nickerson's "The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose and Me". Began her professional writing career working in television and film. Her second novel, The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose and Me. The Page 99 Te...
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LIT LISTS: Critic's chart: mothers and daughters in literature
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008. Critic's chart: mothers and daughters in literature. Kate Saunders, who reviews fiction for the Times. London), picked a critic's chart of "mothers and daughters in literature.". Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy would have been nowhere without their “Marmee”, arguably literature's most perfect mother. Read about the other books on Saunders' chart. Subscribe To Lit Lists. At My Book, The Movie. Ronlyn Domingue's "The Mapmaker's War". Campaign for the American Reader. The Page 69 Test.
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author interviews: Jana K. Lipman
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Monday, March 16, 2009. Jana K. Lipman. Jana K. Lipman. Is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Tulane University. Her new book is Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. She generously responded to several questions of mine:. Zeringue: For better or worse, many readers really do judge a book by its cover. Would you explain your cover and comment on how it conveys what the reader will find in the pages? A Few Good Men ), and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ("the princi...
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author interviews: Susan Spann
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Thursday, August 13, 2015. Is a transactional attorney focusing on publishing law and a former law school professor. She has a deep interest in Asian culture and has studied Mandarin and Japanese. Her hobbies include Asian cooking, fencing, knife and shuriken. Throwing, traditional archery, martial arts, rock climbing, and horseback riding. Spann's novels include Blade of the Samurai. And Flask of the Drunken Master. From her 2014 Examiner Q and A:. 2 What year in history would you have liked to live in?
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author interviews: Ana Siljak
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Sunday, June 29, 2008. Is Assistant Professor of Russian and East European History at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Her new book is Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World. Siljak responded to a few questions about the book which were put to her by the political scientist Cary Federman. Author of The Body and the State: Habeas Corpus and American Jurisprudence. Federman: Vera Zasulich was a female assassin. What I found most i...
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Campaign for the American Reader: Sheila Lowe’s “Written in Blood,” the movie
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Campaign for the American Reader. The official blog of the Campaign for the American Reader, an independent initiative to encourage more readers to read more books. Sunday, September 14, 2008. Sheila Lowe’s “Written in Blood,” the movie. Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Sheila Lowe’s Written in Blood. If I had a buck for everyone who’s said to me, “this series would make a great movie! I thought about some of my all-time favorite movies and discovered that Jeannot Szwarc. Had directed Somewhere in Time.
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The Page 69 Test: "Letters to Zell"
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The Page 69 Test. Monday, August 10, 2015. Lives just north of Seattle with her partner, Adam, and their dog Dutch(ess). Born in Billings, Montana, she moved to Southern California. To attend Claremont McKenna College, graduating with a dual degree in Biology and Literature. She has since sold short fiction and creative nonfiction to dozens of online and print magazines. She is the editor of Easy Street. And is a senior editor at The Lascaux Review. Griep applied the Page 69 Test. To Letters to Zell.
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Campaign for the American Reader: Eight of the grinchiest characters in literature
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Campaign for the American Reader. The official blog of the Campaign for the American Reader, an independent initiative to encourage more readers to read more books. Saturday, December 20, 2014. Eight of the grinchiest characters in literature. At The Barnes and Noble Book Blog Ginni Chen tagged the eight grinchiest characters in literature. The Dursleys (The Harry Potter Series, by J.K. Rowling). Read about another entry on the list. Sophie McKenzie's top ten list of mothers in children's books. Hedwig (...
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