Tag: writing
member name: Chris Steib
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April 19, 2008 02:43 PM EDT --
The 50-book warpath continues, and this time the bodies on the battlements include a rapturous poetry read by a Pulitzer Prize winner, a tiresome tale of unrealistic romance from the former editor of . . . more
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February 15, 2007 04:15 PM EST --
Dear "Poets,"
We want to (sort of) thank you for another batch of some of the worst love poems we've ever seen. Paired with the absolutely atrocious weather today in Manhattan, we can . . . 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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January 29, 2007 10:16 AM EST --
Others may have said it to you before, but rarely, I assure you, with such steadfast and sincere admiration. Perhaps you’ve heard it after a night of karaoke, or when tinkering unknowingly with a . . . more
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February 07, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
The good people at the Association of American Publishers announced today the book sales figures for 2006, showing that the industry dropped by a slim 0.2%, down to $10.03 billion from $10.04 billion in . . . more
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August 16, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
I HAD the PLEASURE of meeting with Jo Umans (Executive Director) and Denise Bell (Director of Development) a few weeks ago over coffee to discuss Behind the Book as a potential beneficiary. . . . more
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February 05, 2007 12:25 AM EST --
When the famous gambler Canada Bill visited Baton Rouge in the late 1880s, he searched all over town for action until eventually coming across a Faro game in the back of a barber shop. When his friend . . . more
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