Tag: literature
member name: Chris Steib
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December 24, 2007 04:12 PM EST --
I may regret announcing this resolution to my fellow Gatherers, but I have officially challenged myself to read 50 books in 2008. Quick math shows that I'm signed up to ingest a book about every . . . more
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May 20, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
How many of the books on your shelves have you read? If you're at all like me, that answer is somewhere between "not many" and "I dunno." And like other self-proclaimed literary . . . more
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December 20, 2007 05:45 PM EST --
So there's this annoying little letter we have used on the webernet since, gosh, it seems like just about forever ago. It's a vowel, a familiar and friendly letter that I've now used six . . . more
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April 30, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
The Sony Reader, some have said, is a solution in search of a problem – that there's no apparent need for this technology and it is, at best, a benefit to a very narrow audience. I would argue, . . . more
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October 18, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
The Association of American Publishers last week released book sales figures for August 2007, which showed 9.8% growth as compared to the same month in 2006, on par with an 11.2% year-to-date (YTD) increase . . . more
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June 23, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
Let's face it: as literary enthusiasts, it's hard to sneak in a few pages during work without running the risk of looking like a total slacker. And unless your favorite pasttime involves writing . . . more
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March 03, 2007 03:53 PM EST --
March is Small Press Month, as you may have heard, and I've outlined below 10 ways to help our indie friends stay afloat in this increasingly conglomerated, flooded, and financially challenging literary . . . more
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July 15, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Ah, summer. The season in which we customarily choose books by virtue of their cover art or their ability to fit neatly into a beach bag. But just because it's summer doesn't mean you have to . . . more
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October 23, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
Here's a quickie for those interested in the slow, painful death of the printed word: Jeff Gomez, author of the forthcoming book Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age , is talking the talk . . . more
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March 11, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
A few days ago, I sat down for a little GTalk with my old friend, fellow writer, and man of many digital hats, Adam Maxwell . In our interview, he shares his insight on such things as: the effect a new . . . more
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June 24, 2008 04:09 PM EDT --
With beach season now upon us, publishers are undoubtedly in full-swing summer-reading mode, paying exorbitant sums of cash to stock B&N's front-list tables with disposable mass-market fodder. . . . more
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January 13, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
For those unaware, this year I pledged to read 50 books as my literary New Year's resolution. I'm on target so far, having read two and finishing my third today or tomorrow (depending on whether . . . more
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August 29, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
I'm not sure at what point the publishing industry decided that "literary" was synonymous with "depressing," but Kaui Hart Hemmings' debut novel The Descendants is a prime . . . more
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June 06, 2007 12:10 AM EDT --
The Average American Male
a novel by Chad Kultgen (Harper Perennial, 2007)
They say the average male thinks about sex every eight to ten seconds – but that’s child’s play for the . . . more
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September 27, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
“We live in a world that could only have been dreamed up by Graham Greene and Franz Kafka on a weekend bender, with George Orwell along to write slogans.” -- Jess Walter, from the afterward . . . more
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October 16, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
In book-to-film news, AOL Movies posted a new trailer for the Coen brothers' forthcoming adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic No Country for Old Men. I have little to add to the trailer except . . . more
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April 21, 2008 09:25 PM EDT --
Long-time PBS talkshow host Charlie Rose is many things to many people, but an ultra-minimalist, existential dramatic absurdist he is not. Until now .
" Something has happened to PBS favorite . . . more
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February 21, 2007 01:24 PM EST --
Jumping on the bandwagon of industries claiming to be totally screwed by China's 90% piracy rate, American publishers told Congress last week that the conservative estimate for their losses due to . . . more
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March 20, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
Dana Adam Shapiro is the author of the darkly comic and heartwarmingly quirky novel The Every Boy (read an excerpt here). A former senior editor of Spin and a founder of Icon magazine, Dana also . . . more
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March 21, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
When it was first published in the early 1980s, Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero was dubbed "Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation" by that all-knowing literary oracle USA Today (snark). . . . more
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