Literary

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• Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

  
  Practicing Writing — Authority: 420
  "The Literary Awards Committee of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) is now accepting submissions for the annual BCALA Literary Awards. The Committee will present three prizes of $500.00 each for adult books written by African American authors: a First Novelist Award, a Fiction Award and a ...
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• Book Review: “Rough Country” by John Sandford

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 632
  In just days Erica McDill was supposed to finally takeover the advertising agency Ruff-Harcourt-McDill in Minneapolis. With Ruff having died sometime back and Harcourt retired and finally willing to sell his stock to McDill the agency was almost in her grasp. Once he sold his shares, she would have seventy-five ...
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• *notes from the writing life…

  
  Valentine Bonnaire — Authority: 130
  So, Twitter is a great thing for writers… all kinds of interesting things float by — and there are all kinds of articles too that other writers are posting all of the time as well as little literary quotes and things… Also, I was looking at this this morning and it’s a very funny video. ...
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• The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams

  
  A Writer's Desk — Authority: 435
  How did the title of one of Williams best-known plays come to be? Gary Dexter lets us know. From the piece... Tennessee Williams’ sister Rose suffered from lifelong mental illness, and underwent a pre-frontal lobotomy in 1937. The operation was new and untested, and in Rose’s case was a disastrous failure, ...
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• Things That Are True About Jane Austens Northanger Abbey:

  
  Isak — Authority: 559
  It is a clever satire of Gothic literature, a particularly interesting project, given that "novels," or full-length books of fiction, where only just emerging as a distinct and consistent literary tradition. Moreover, our novel-loving heroine was of an early generation of literate young women. It is playfully ...
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• ANAMBRA 2010 : Signs Ominous, Says Achebe – The Guardian

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 151
  Barely two months and a week to the February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State, all does not seem well for the exercise that may shape the outcome of the 2011 general elections in the country.This is the verdict of literary icon and international statesman, Professor Chinua Achebe Ñ the David and ...
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• LAYAWAY • by Jameson Parker

  
  Every Day Fiction — Authority: 496
  On a cloudy but otherwise temperate Sunday in August, the couple made the two hour drive up the turnpike to their favorite furniture store. Pulling into an empty spot, Jack noticed they had replaced the old sign — a wooden box with the name of the store painted on it in green — with a new, electric model. The new ...
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• Posterity: What Makes a Classics?

  
  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook — Authority: 125
  Last week’s Booking Through Thursday question concerned the posterity issue in literature. It asked whether any of the modern authors can measure up to the caliber of Dickens, Austen, and Bronte. While I’m not sure what qualities the host thinks give these authors their status but I must say, from my humble and ...
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• Your Words are Yours

  
  Citizen of the Month — Authority: 634
  
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• Book Review: “The Night Monster: A Novel Of Suspense” by James Swain

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 632
  Eighteen years ago, as a patrol officer, Jack Carpenter responded to an assault call at the Sunny Isle apartment complex. He made several mistakes that fateful day in 1992 and didn’t stop the abduction of Naomi Dunn. That event haunted and shaped his career with the Broward County Sheriff’s Department.  These ...
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• what books worth a prize this year?

  
  Ask Nicola — Authority: 468
  The deadline for submitting nominees for the Lambda Literary Award is rapidly approaching (its Tuesday). So this is your last chance to nudge authors and publishers to submit books for consideration. The better the nominees, the better the reputation of the award, and so the better the reputation of quiltbag ...
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• Info Ink Book Review #3

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  Everyone that knows me knows that I am a political junkie and therefore they think that I am some sort of genius when it comes to political books…..this review is of a book given to me by a friend because he knows of my efforts to disspell some of the hero worship of our Founding Fathers…… Political Incorrect ...
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• First Page: Single Title Contemporary Romance

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 141
  Welcome to First Page Saturday. Individual authors anonymously send a first page read and critiqued by the Dear Author community of authors, readers and industry others. Anyone is welcome to comment. You may comment anonymously. Warning: This first page contains graphic sexual situations. *** Teddy Wilson was ...
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• HEINEKEN HAZE • by Wanda Morrow-Clevenger

  
  Every Day Fiction — Authority: 496
  “What’s so hard about asking for a name when someone calls. Getting off her dimpled duff and waddling to the receiver is a major strain, but asking ‘May I say who called?’ is as easy as farting — and God knows she’s a wiz at that. But no , can’t be done in my mom’s house. Give me a freakin break.” ...
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• Book Review: “Hell Hole: A John Ceepak Novel” by Chris Grabenstein

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 632
  It is another summer in Sea Haven and police officer Danny Boyle and John Ceepak soon are involved in another case. While the tourism industry in Sea Haven seems safe this time around, little else is including their own lives. It begins at a party at a local rental house with a disturbance call. Ceepak is [...]
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• DITA VON TEESE: LONDON STRIPTEESE

  
  GOSSIP, CELEBRITY NEWS — Authority: 163
  Doing her prizewinning to increase welfare in her newborn literate work, Dita Von Teese paying a meet to Waterstones in London, England on weekday daytime (November 27). The mock example smiled as she greeted fans and subscribed copies her stylish book, Dita: Stripteese, during the kibosh at the favourite Piccadilly ...
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• Choose Books: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

  
  Isak — Authority: 559
  Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked.Its because there are few things more fun than giving someone a bookthey fall in love with; it lasts longer and matters more than, say,necklaces or sweaters, while rarely being more than about fifteendollars. Whats more, your purposeful choice of ...
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• Four Literary Agents Looking for New Writers

  
  Writinghood — Authority: 125
  Image via Wikipedia The writer today has a tough task trying to get published, if you are not famous like J K Rowling or Stephen King, then you have work to do. Remember, they were in the same position as you. They had faith in their work and it paid off. The Harry Potter book was turned down over twenty times, but ...
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• Sylvia Plath Documentary, Part Two of Six

  
  E-Verse Radio — Authority: 136
  
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