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Yesterday | The Courier-Journal

Cultural clash in Appalachia

Some writers are masters of self-promotion, thoroughly convinced and convincing in their roles as artist-shamans. Others seem driven to self-effacement, shrugging off as quickly as possible the writer's prophetic mantel.

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Related Topix: Arts, Eastern, KY

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Visalia Times-Delta

'Men Who Stare at Goats' will get your laughs

For whatever reason, the military always has provided fertile ground for black comedy.

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Related Topix: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Arts, US Army, US Military

Wed Nov 04, 2009

The Honolulu Advertiser

Celebrating the memoir fiction's day is done?

When browsing online or in a bookstore, one might easily conclude that every third person in the country is actively engaged in writing or reading a memoir.

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Related Topix: Riverhead, NY, University of Delaware, Arts, City University of New York, Columbia University

Austin American Statesman

Two-day Texas Book Festival ends

David Wroblewski reads a passage from his first novel, 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,' during his segment in the state Senate chamber on the final day of the Texas Book Festival.

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Related Topix: Texas, Round Rock, TX, Austin, TX, Austin Metro, Arts, Agriculture, Science

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Publishers Weekly

Nonfiction Reviews

Novelist Hustvedt has been puzzling for years over the cause of her physical distress, from migraines to convulsions, and in this wide-ranging hodgepodge of technical jargon, research, memory and narrative, she tries to get at the root of what ails her.

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Related Topix: Arts, Literature

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Nonfiction review: Munich, 1938

NONFICTION For students of 20th-century history, the title of this book is shorthand for tragedy and disaster.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Arts, Entertainment

MySimon shopping blog

The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart

Anytime a movie comes out about a particular historical figure, we like to get our hands on a biography to find out the real story first.

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Related Topix: Arts

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Macleans

How e-mail rots your brain

John Freeman, the author of The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox on why "any email correspondence is always a few exchanges away from a fight" John Freeman, 34, is the American editor of the eminent British literary magazine Granta , a job he took on in May after 10 years as a book critic, regularly writing for 200 ...

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Related Topix: Arts

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Associated Content

Readings and Thoughts on Creative Nonfiction

Title: A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Foer uses punctuation to describe his relationship with his father and brother.

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Related Topix: Arts

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Associated Content

Writing Nonfiction for Children

Nonfiction children's writing covers a very broad category. I was not aware just how broad nonfiction children's writing can be though, until I read Anastasia Suen's book, Picture Writing: A New Approach to Writing for Kids and Teens .So, here is a list of information I have gleaned from Suen about writing nonfiction for children: Board books: Most ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Kids, Family

Publishers' Weekly

Nonfiction Reviews

This sprawling text reconstructs the history of civilization in order to illuminate the importance of water in human development from the first civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and the Indus River Valley to the present.

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Related Topix: Arts, Flood, Natural Disasters, Mississippi

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Nonfiction: 'The Collector'

The man who gave his name to the magnificent Douglas fir was in the second wave of white adventurers in the great Pacific Northwest, and you get the feeling, reading Jack Nisbet's fascinating new biography, "The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest," that he regretted his tardiness.

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Related Topix: Arts, Tayside County, Scotland, United Kingdom, Canada, World News

Thu Oct 22, 2009

The Oregonian

Oregon Book Awards preview: general nonfiction

A preview of the Oregon Book Awards category for general nonfiction shows four books with a strong Oregon basis and one about an author with no connection to Oregon by a multiple Oregon Book Award winner.

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Related Topix: Oregon, Arts, Hood River, OR

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Express

No New Clues: 'Homicide: Life on the Street' Complete Season DVD

SO IS IT wrong that we're totally underwhelmed by the repackaged box set for " Homicide: Life on the Street "? David Simon fans, don't get offended - that's not any kind of slight on the man now best known for " The Wire " and whose nonfiction 1991 book, " Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets ," inspired "Homicide," one of the best cop shows of ...

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Homicide Life on the Street, Animated TV, The Street, Arts, Law and Order, Crime TV

Mon Oct 19, 2009

CBC

Irish, Ugandan writers up for U.S. book awards

American writers with roots in Ireland, Pakistan and Uganda have been named as fiction finalists for the National Book Awards, announced Wednesday.

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Related Topix: California, Arts

Sat Oct 17, 2009

The Frederick News Post

'Ghost hunters' to give talk at Mount Airy Senior Center

At Halloween, according to legend, the veil between the world of the living and the dead thins.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Halloween, Arts, Supernatural

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Concord Monitor

Locals National Book Award contenders

David Carroll of Warner and former Concord resident Phil Hoose have been nominated for National Book Awards, considered one of the pre-eminent literary prizes in the country.

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Related Topix: Concord, NH, Arts

Wed Oct 14, 2009

KSL-TV Salt Lake City

Tycoon tales and Darwin get award nominations

The subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors.

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Related Topix: The Fiction, Alternative, Wayne State University, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Lincoln, Arts

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Entertainment

Fiction1. The Lost Sy...

Fiction 1. The Lost Symbol , Dan Brown. Robert Langdon among the Masons. 2. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon.

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Related Topix: Lost, Action TV, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Vocal, Diana Gabaldon, North Carolina, Arts, Game Show, The Biggest Loser, Reality TV

Sun Oct 11, 2009

Original Content

Since We Were Talking About Nonfiction A Couple Of Days Ago...

Disclaimer: First I want to mention that I kind of know Chris Barton in that bizarre way you know people on the Internet you've never met in the flesh and have never been anywhere near because you live in different parts of the country.

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Related Topix: Arts

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