These tights singlehandedly inspired me to start a new occasional feature on 1st Books: Friday Fun! I found them on the facebook page of Changing Hands …
Pages, Manhattan Beach CA
"Grocery Stories" Perhaps the only place more special than a good bookstore is one opened by a friend you knew in her pre-bookseller days. In my sordid …
Inside Random House: Bringing Books to Life
Do you want to hear how it works from the folks at one of the country's biggest publishing houses? Caveat: I'm prejudiced, as this is my publishing group. But I …
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A Writing Contest Worth Considering
I'm not generally a big fan of writing contests with fees, but I just learned about the 1st Annual WNBA National Writing Contest. Small fee ($15 for …
Sally Koslow: Magazine Editor Turns Novelist
I first connected with Sally Koslow when I was asked to read her delightfully funny The Late, Lamented Molly Marx for a possible blurb - a first for me - and …
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Joshua Henkin: Risking Failure
Joshua Henkin wanted to be a fiction writer when he was growing up but, like so many of us, feared he wasn't good enough. But his second novel, Matrimony - …
Richard Russo on Those Who Fill the Chairs
One really stressful prospect for authors is that we will be the only ones to show up for our readings. Anne Patchett's wonderful take on the problem (excuse me …
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Toni Morrison on Making Time to Write, among Other Things
President Obama, in presenting the Medal of Freedom to Toni Morrison on Tuesday, remarked that as a single mother she would carve out a little time in the …
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Camille Noe Pagán: Would I Steal these Scenes?
Last year I had the pleasure of hosting debut novelist Camille Noe Pagán when The Art of Forgetting, was published by Dutton. I'm delighted now to rerun her …
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What kind of Bookworm belongs at the Cannes Film Festival?
Because I'm a book person who loves film (even though I'm generally disappointed in the movie version of any book I have loved), I turned with great excitement …
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