Lit

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• Review Notes: The Snapper, The Van, Queen of Babble

  
  Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog — Authority: 123
  248. The Snapper by Roddy Doyle Publication: Penguin (Non-Classics); Open market ed edition (September 1, 1995), Omnibus, 640pp / ISBN 0140252622 Genre: Fiction Rating: Read: December 20-21, 2009 Source: Library Summary from Amazon: Sharon Rabbitte is single, pregnant, and living in Dublin, and ...
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• DE-HOAXING TIMOTHY R. FOX, Ph.D

  
  prairiemary — Authority: 128
  A quick Google reveals that Professor Fox has had two main jobs since 1990. The first was four years (1990-1994) as the managing editor of “The Pet Dealer Magazine” in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The second, from 1994 until today, has been as an associate professor at “Chinese Culture University, Taipei. ” ...
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• Placenta Face Treatment Offered In Dubai | PopShizle.com

  
  Dubai for Visitors — Authority: 155
  Beauty conscious women in Dubai are being targeted by a controversial product claimed to make them look younger - made from newborn baby placenta. See the rest here: Placenta Face Treatment Offered In Dubai | PopShizle.com
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• Attica Locke

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 592
  After years of writing screenplays of other peoples ideas, and screenplays that never became movies, Attica Locke wrote a novel that finally revealed her own voice and allowed her to explore the dreams and disillusions of political activists.
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• LitMag Wave: Short Story, No. 6

  
  Perpetual Folly — Authority: 428
  It’s a shame about Short Story . In its short life—issue Number 6, Spring 2009, was its last—it published some very good stories and interviews with intriguing writers. In the last issue, for example, the editor’s interview with Elise Blackwell includes some useful insights into process: “For me, a book ...
  23 hours ago

• Toronto: Liv Au Lit Boxing Week Sale

  
  The Cheap Girl — Authority: 142
  Up to 50% off storewide. 418 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto
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• Friday Morning LitLinks

  
  Author Scoop — Authority: 143
  Happy Holidays from the AuthorScoop staff to all of our readers. Thanks for another great year. Chinese dissident author Lu Xiaobo expected to be sentenced on Christmas. ( GalleyCat ) UPDATE : Lu Xiaobo jailed for 11 years for inciting subversion of state power. ( Radio Netherlands ) Tired of all those 2009 ...
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• LitMag Wave: Mid-American Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 1

  
  Perpetual Folly — Authority: 428
  I subscribe to a lot of literary magazines and I’m hopelessly behind in my reading. A 2010 resolution that I intend to put into practice immediately is to read the journals as soon as they come in, PLUS one from the backlog. I haven’t finished with the one that arrived yesterday, so let me start this new LitMag ...
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• How Rorschach Stole Christmas

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 768
  ( YouTube Link ) In this variation on Dr. Seuss’ classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas , Rorschach punishes the people of New York City for their Christmas cheer. I’m not sure who the author is, but I’ve seen it vaguely referenced to the posters at 4chan — and I’m not about to go searching that site to ...
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• Thursday Morning LitLinks

  
  Author Scoop — Authority: 143
  Ursula Le Guin resigns from the Authors Guild after nearly 40 years in protest over the Google Books settlement: “You decided to deal with the devil, as it were, and have presented your arguments for doing so. I wish I could accept them. I can’t.” ( Publishers Weekly ) Joseph Sullivan shares his favorite book ...
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• Clicklist: Merry music

  
  green LA girl — Authority: 435
  >> How to make magic happen by lipsynching : Lipsynch backwards. That’s how some high school students defy gravity while mouthing the words to “You Make My Dreams Come True.” (via LAT Technology ) Remember when we’d have time to plan out shenanigans like this back in high school — except we ...
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• Santa Claus, Part 3: Our favourite Santa stories

  
  Family Anatomy — Authority: 120
  In general, psychologists don’t see the Santa story as being harmful for kids – in fact, research has shown that children who outgrow the Santa story tend to be proud of themselves for figuring it out! My children still believe in Santa Claus, and we have a bunch of favourite books that we bring out and read ...
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• The Fireman’s Christmas

  
  Flamingo House Happenings — Authority: 120
  We were over on BlogHer talking about Christmas books and @firemom fessed up that she had picked up a cheesy Christmas romance – about a fireman. We bugged her til she told us the title – The Fireman’s Christmas – and then I promptly ran over to my library website and reserved it. (Poor Sassymonkey ...
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• Delhi civil society demands reopening of Ruchika case, lights candles

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) People from different walks of life Thursday demanded the reopening of Ruchika Girhotra molestation case and lit candles at the historic Jantar Mantar to register their protest against the light sentence handed to the perpetrator, former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore.“It is amply ...
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• Banksy’s eco-message sinks in disbelief after Copenhagen Climate Talks

  
  green LA girl — Authority: 435
  The Copenhagen Climate Talks closed last week with the sinking hopes of many enviro-groups who, expectedly, called the summit a failure — and with a “sinking” mural by world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy . “I don’t believe in global warming,” reads Banksy’s new mural — with the bottoms of the ...
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• Illustrating Moby-Dick

  
  Mighty Red Pen — Authority: 117
  Absolutely LOVE this, in part because I love Moby-Dick and in part because I appreciate the passion behind such an audacious undertaking. Check on artist Matt Kish, who is creating an illustration for every page of Moby-Dick . Every page of the 522-page Signet Classic. Here’s page 8: Read more about ...
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• IQs Corner Recent Literature of Interest 12-23-09

  
  Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) — Authority: 129
  This weeks "recent literature of interest " is now available. Click here to view or download. Information regarding this feature, its basis, and the reasons for type of references included in each weekly installment can be found in a prior post . Technorati Tags: psychology , school psychology , ...
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• White children and their natives

  
  Works Cited — Authority: 111
  Aarons recent post on the American "bad boy" in Avatar made me think in general about childrens narratives that construct a "native" with which the child may have an adventure. The American bad boy is very, very familiar: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Rip van Winkle, etc. Avatar seems to fall into this ...
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• Illustrating Moby-Dick One Page at a Time

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 597
  Since August, artist Matt Kish has worked his way page-by-page through Herman Melville s Moby Dick --illustrating each page along the way. Page 109 is pictured above, a painting entitled : "I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." Inspired by artist Zak Smith s project ...
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• Wednesday Morning LitLinks

  
  Author Scoop — Authority: 143
  Go behind the scenes of Larry McMurtry’s ‘Literary Life.’ ( NPR ) Seattle named America’s most literate city for 2009. Find out how your city measures up here . ( GalleyCat ) At what point does labeling a writer by race or ethnicity become too reductive? ( Publishing Perspectives ) Philip Jones documents ...
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