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Posted by Naomi Firestone Moment Magazine lists its “Intriguing Books of 2009″: Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West Michael A. Ledeen (Truman Talley) Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer (Little, Brown) The Clothes On Their Backs Linda Grant (Scribner) Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife Francine Prose (HarperCollins) Homer & Langley E. L. Doctorow (Random...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The Tyranny of E-Mail The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox By John Freeman (Scribner; 244 pages; $25) John Freeman comes out with rhetorical guns ablaze in "The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox." In this decisively...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Raymond Carver A Writer's Life By Carol Sklenicka (Scribner; 578 pages; $35) Raymond Carver's life, as related in the exhaustive and definitive new biography by Carol Sklenicka, reads like a Raymond Carver story. That isn't merely a facile observation about a...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The excitement of a three-ring circus couldn't match the grandeur of Sunday's musical festivities at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Choral Arts Society director Norman Scribner conducted 180 singers in a performance of antiphonal music (two or more independent groups performing together or in...
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Seth Rogovoy, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, is guest-blogging all week for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish Book Council. My new book, Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet (Scribner) — a critical biography of the rock poet that examines his life and work through a Jewish prism — hasn’t even been officially published yet (that happens [...]
cynsations (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Learn more about Debby Dahl Edwardson . What do you love most about your creative life? Why? What I love most about writing is that wonderful alchemy that turns words on a page into complete worlds, places that become so real we can smell the trees and hear the voices. I especially like it when a character jumps right off the page and says or does something that takes me, the writer, by surprise. This...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Kaylie Jones, daughter of author James Jones: "My father agreed to eliminate a certain number of F-words - in part because there was a question whether the US postal system would even deliver the book to stores because of its 'salacious' nature - but there was another battle he was waging with his publisher. Apparently Scribner's had a 'don't ask don't tell' policy about depicting homosexuality...
The Galloping Beaver (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The Guardian UK today reveals: Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher * Alison Flood | * guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 November 2009 It is one of the most celebrated images in cinema, an icon of heterosexual romance: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing as the waves crash over...
Moved to Vancouver (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The Guardian UK today reveals: Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher * Alison Flood | * guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 November 2009 It is one of the most celebrated images in cinema, an icon of heterosexual romance: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing as the waves crash over...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
UNDER THE DOME By Stephen King Scribner. 1,074 pp. $35
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Prosecutors tie Iran, U.S. assets FORFEITURE ACTIONS BEGIN N.Y. group, related sites said to be Tehran fronts By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 13, 2009 Federal prosecutors on Thursday moved to seize several U.S. assets allegedly controlled by entities linked to the government of Iran, including a mosque and Islamic school in Potomac, land in Prince William County and a...
Islam in Action (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Yesterday the Feds went after 4 US Mosques and a Muslim owned skyscraper. As usual less than 24 hours later, Muslims are crying victim. Keep crying wolf, less and less people are falling for it. Muslims decry move to seize Houston mosque Houston spiritual center among U.S. buildings federal prosecutors link to Iran By MOISES MENDOZA, MARY FLOOD and LINDSAY WISE The U.S. government on Thursday moved...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Under the Dome By Stephen King (Scribner; 1,074 pages; $35) If you have read a Stephen King novel exceeding 500 pages, you probably don't need to read "Under the Dome." If you do read "Under the Dome," you might not need to read another Stephen King novel...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I'm not sure why the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York chose to amend the Government's forfeiture complaint after 11 months to include four mosques around the country. The complaint was filed in December, 2008, seeking to forfeit assets of the Alavi Foundation and Assa Corp., including a NY office building at 650 5th Avenue (which houses Piaget) which the Government alleges are fronts...
Working With Words (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Locking Yourself Away to Focus On Making Money as Quickly as Possible A trove of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tax returns recently surfaced, and they contained a host of surprises, as this article in The American Scholar notes. The piece is full of delicious details about the ups and downs of his financial life. But veteran writers may especially appreciate this passage about how even such a prominent writer...
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