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TIME Magazine recently compiled what the writer's to be the "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present." Most have been made into movies making it easier for high school and college English students to explore these classics from their sofa. The spine remains unbroken.My second creative writing professor told me my style was more movie tie-in and less literary after reading my

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I don't know if one can resign the definition of an era/generation. Midnight reaches in through my open windows, cannot claim what has already been volunteered, and retreats to protect that which personifies everything solitary and endless between sunset and sunrise. During the waking hours, most hold respectable jobs, I either hold myself, toy with my keyboard, or read in the bathroom holding

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I don't know what was more humbling, asking for a job application at my first bookstore, or filling the damned thing out. For the five years I was employed by Barnes & Noble, I spent much of my downtime at the customer service desk looking through and laughing at the applications we would receive hourly. Filling one out today for Waldenbooks, I felt nervous about each my answers - even my

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Television has always been something in my life that I could do without. It wouldn't necessarily be a happy existence, but I could manage. My grandparents did it, right? But, books are something completely different. I think it may have something to do with wanting to imagine what characters look like and no commercial breaks.When The Green Mile by Stephen King originally came out, it was

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I see that I've retreated so far. I've hidden away from the local society. I haven't really expressed any sort of emotion toward anyone because I'm a wreck. While I do have a dream, I have no purpose right now. I don't have a job and am feeling beaten down. I'm trying to stay under the radar of everyone until I can get secure footing in this quicksand town. I've retreated this far, I might

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I roll out of bed and tell JD that I know the original post was shit, "but, i'm already in bed, man, can't it go until morning.""No," JD's imaginary voice says to me in a raspy, smokey, God-like voice, "and it is morning...well, the only part of it you know, anyways. Get up. Fix this."So, here I am, typing this bitch out. again. A friend lent me her stolen, library copy of JD Salinger's "

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It's to be a weekend for sages to drink and remember everything good about this world is best left hibernating between dusty covers until an innocent imagination is ready to create a new horizon for the world to wake-up to. It's going to be verbose. It's going to be inebriated philosophy. It's going to be escapism from the laboring existence that we celebrate. It'll most likely be spent at

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i haven't written anything fictional - that i know of - in the last year or so. as i was packing-up my filing cabinet yesterday, i ran across this story. well, in its original form. feeling creative, but less-than-motivated to start anew, i dug up the past to see what new information/experience would shed on it. the following short story is that Frankenstein. She left me in the storm. I saw

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On Saturday, July 17, a boy, scarred from innocence lost, will rise from the ashes and remind us all that heroes can still make the morning headlines. From British blood and global tears, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, like the terrorist threat before 7/7, turns speculation into reality. He will stand beside London police, medics, and emergency workers and mourn the inevitable truth:

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For the love of Books: "My first reading indiscretion took place when I was eleven years old. My friend got a free copy of a..."Whether it's Janet Jackson's clothing malfunction, Will & Grace, or the internet porn utopia, much has been said about how the media is plucking the virginal flowers of our youths. Concerned parents and activist politicians push for new regulations every state and

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Summer reading: "There's a little something for everyone -- Vampires! Time travelers! British babes! -- in this selection of page turners guaranteed to make your summer shine."Salon's Summer reading list. Don't know if I agree with some of these, but I don't have time to read everything on the shelves, and Salon usually does a pretty good job with their recommendations. If these don't look

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The Washingtonienne, a Novel: "Jessica Cutler's roman � clef chronicles the sexploits of a young woman who humps her way around Capitol Hill, only to have her anonymous blog bring her life crashing down around her. By Susannah Breslin.PLUS: Read an excerpt from the book."If Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, then why are so many failed-somebodies turning to fiction to tell their "stories"? I

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The Da Vinci Code and Christianity in America: "This has nothing to do with politics, but I felt that we should have a post today."I read The Da Vinci Code weeks after its debut. The company was pushing it long before its release in April, 2002. At first, I didn't want to be a part of the book's marketing campaign so I waited to see the public response. It made the bestseller lists the week after

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Book hits bestseller lists due to blogs: "A new book has made the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com bestseller lists without advertising, national bookstore distribution, a major publishing house, radio interviews, television interviews, or print interviews but through the power of blogs."The Media need only two things to survive: an audience and advertising. The

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Making Books of Blogs:"An Israeli company plans to take the best blog postings by customers and put them between covers", says Nir Ofir, the editor.Translating ideas. Making thoughts more than internet monologues. Blogs to be published in book format. A tale of two markets.It's not a radical idea. Fiction writers have used blogs to write novels - readers interract with the author during the

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Here is Salon's Spring reading:1. A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin2. Never Let Go by Kazuo Ishiguro3. Wasted Beauty by Eric Bogosian4. The Coast of Akron by Adrienne MillerI swear, when I read that article earlier this evening it had four different titles, interested in those?1. A Changed Man by Francine Prose2. Snobs by Julian Fellowes3. Paradise by A.L. Kennedy4. Under the Glacier by

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Seemingly lost amidst this vast library of computer bibles is another bible, one that you are more likely to hear whispered in your ear than reading beneath your front porch on a rainy day. Nestled between the PDF versions of Kalman Filtering and Neural Networks and The C Programming Language slumbers the Kama Sutra just waiting for a computer-savvy teenager to stumble onto this very site.When I

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Judge A Book... by its CoverThe types of books you read are not unlike other forms of self-expression like tattoos, clothing, or music. To get what you want, you must first know what you want. Despite what your mother told you as a child, a book can be judged by its cover. I know this because I’ve been a bookseller for the two largest chain book stores in North America for more than eight of my

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Too often, people are attracted to books that have New York Times Bestseller bannered across the front cover. The banner only signifies the strength of the book's publisher and its marketing campaign. On the current list, the only book I see worthy of nation-wide respect is Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Combined with the success of his first book, Everything is

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Article One on Books

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