Literary

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• Name of the Day: Maisie

  
  Appellation Mountain — Authority: 130
  She’s the short form of a timeless classic. Thanks to Laura for suggesting Maisie as Name of the Day. Laura originally suggested the spelling Maizie .  Along with Maisy , it’s a variant you’ll spot from time to time.  But it’s Maisie that currently ranks in the UK Top 100 and could follow other ...
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• The World Marathi Literary Meet of 2010 will be held in Dubai

  
  The Punekar — Authority: 149
  The World Marathi Literary Meet of 2010 will be held in Dubai in the first week of March. This will be the second World Meet as the first was held in February this year in San Francisco, the US. Click the article headline for the full article.
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• Wine: Bottled Poetry

  
  SLING WORDS — Authority: 122
  Just this past week, my older son and I were talking about wine. I was relating how we had such wonderful wines when we were in Europe, but those wines werent exported since they were for the domestic market only. Wouldnt it be wonderful, I said, if we could visit a French Wine Shop each week? You see, my husband ...
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• Gleam Of Distinction

  
  Joan Slings Words — Authority: 421
  My complaint about most cars on the road today is that they all look alike. Have you noticed that? When you see a vehicle with some custom touch like chrome trim door handles or window visors, you realize how distinctive those accessories make the vehicle. Nothing Like Shiny Chrome I always think of chrome ...
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• ‘Passive aggression made public policy’

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 150
  One of the pleasures of reading THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT regularly during the 1990s came in the regular contributions by American University law professor Kenneth Anderson, a specialist in international law, NGOs, and human rights more recently affiliated with the Hoover Institution and the roster of ...
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• Quick Hit: Morbid Charles Dickens

  
  Isak — Authority: 470
  Drawing from the new " biography of a writer as writer" from Yale University Press, Adam Thirwells essay on Charles Dickens in The New Republic turns on the dark dimensions of the author who was by turns a mimic, a moralizer, a magician, a manic, and a mope.
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• Swept Away By Storytellers

  
  Isak — Authority: 470
  As this year is drawing to a close, as I tuck in at my parents house in a little town on Lake Michigan, as it snows whitely on the farms and dunes, as the buzz of my to-do list starts finally, finally to quiet, I find myself swept away by strong storytellers. Im reading William Styron (for the first time) and ...
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• NY TYRANT: LUTZ AT LAST

  
  Viceland Today — Authority: 136
  We all knew this was coming. Gary Lutz. A name that can trigger much opinion belching. Mostly ones of admiration like, “Jesus, how does he do that?” or, “If I could write one sentence as good as Lutz’s worst…” or even as strange as, “I heard he was a wizard or something. ” I’m not going to comment on ...
  19 hours ago

• The Review Lab - Columbia College

  
  NewPages Blog — Authority: 134
  New out from the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College: The Review Lab with book reviews, interviews, blog, and guest columns, including Reviewing Essentials by Donna Seaman from which the following in an excerpt:"Many writers are published first as reviewers, and many inquisitive, generous, and devoted ...
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• Christmas Wishlists – Triple special!

  
  5th Estate — Authority: 125
  We asked our authors for books they’d like to give – or get – this Christmas. Continuing the series, today we are featuring the gifting choices/ wishes of not one, not two, but three of our very special authors. Paula Byrne Paula Byrne was born in Birkenhead and has a PhD from the University of Liverpool. ...
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• Literary Road Trip and Review: Bed and Breakfast

  
  Bermudaonion's Weblog — Authority: 552
  Josie Tatternall’s husband, Bear, was a career military man.  The Tatternalls had three daughters – Camilla, Lila and Evie – but Bear was gone so much, Josie basically raised them by herself.  Josie  always longed for some stability, so when Bear retired, she insisted on buying her dream home.  When Josie is ...
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• NELM’s Andrew Martin: Keep Kunene’s Writings in SA

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 480
  Alert! Following Pinky Khoabane’s alarm-bell ringing about the late Zulu poet Mazisi Kunene’s manuscripts possibly leaving South Africa for a new home in California, Andrew Martin, the energetic representative of the National English Literary Museum ( NELM ), has seconded her call for all Kunene writings to ...
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• Review: Nanny Returns and The Real Real

  
  In Bed With Books — Authority: 118
  By Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus NANNY RETURNS available in hardcover from Atria Books THE REAL REAL available in hardcover and paperback from HarperCollins Review copies provided by publicist I adored THE NANNY DIARIES, once I finally read it. (In the interest of full disclosure, for years I thought it was ...
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• Quotation of the Week: Willa Cather

  
  Practicing Writing — Authority: 420
  Once again, I bring you a quotation that came to me via The Southeast Reviews writing regimen (although I do think Ive heard it bandied about in the past)."Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen." --Willa CatherWhat do you think, practicing writers? Agree? Disagree? How is ...
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• Venison Nachos Smokelong Q, The Pedestal.

  
  Sean Blog: It All Relates 2 Writing — Authority: 112
  Venison soft tacos, with side order of venison nachos. Level 8. Tasted like five pinks lions gathered on your roof, by your chimney. I ate this and believed I was important for nine minutes, until that feeling wore off and I drank three cups of “banana” coffee. I covered the coffee filter in banana peels, then ran ...
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• For Out of the Heart Proceed

  
  Matt Bell — Authority: 125
  Two days before he was supposed to move to Cleveland with his mother and her husband, I took my son to the mall to buy his first winter coat. Gene sat quietly in the passenger seat. I could feel him building to another one of his questions. Lately he’d been coming up with impossibilities like, “What is funny?” ...
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• POEM: A Blasphemy

  
  Isak — Authority: 470
  A Blasphemy By Maurice Manning You wouldnt have believed it, how the man, a little touched perhaps, set his hands together and prayed for happiness, yet not his own; he meant his people, by which he meant not people really, but trees and cows, the dirty horses, dogs, the fox who lived at the back of ...
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• Don’t Commit to a Name Pattern Until You Read These 3 Tips

  
  Nancy's Baby Names — Authority: 420
  Humans love patterns. Just look last year’s list of popular twin names: Jacob & Joshua Daniel & David Jayden & Jordan Ethan & Evan Taylor & Tyler Gabriella & Isabella Isaac & Isaiah Madison & Morgan Elijah & Isaiah Ella & Emma Eight pairs start with the same letter. ...
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• Have a Very Merry Solstice! Winter Solstice Images from NASA’s APOD

  
  art predator — Authority: 128
  For those of us on the West coast of the Pacific, winter began this morning at 9:47am. Now the days will become longer and the nights shorter oh so slowly! until Mon. June 21, 2010 at 4:28am when the days will shrink and the nights will grow long again.My favorite aspect of winter is that [...]
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• Best Books Of 2009

  
  Travel, Work, Life...! — Authority: 126
  1. Cheever: A Life Written by Blake Bailey , who was given access to the journals Cheever kept throughout his life, gives a new meaning to Cheever’s literary work, enabling readers to re-admire his great work. 2. Await Your Reply Dan Chaon was among the finalists for the National Book ...
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