When my husband and I first got married and his mom was still alive, we used to spend a week every summer in Bethany Beach. Page passed away several years ago …
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Happy Holidays!
1st Books will be back in 2014! Enjoy the holidays! …
A Statistical Analysis of the New York Times Notable Books in Fiction for 2013
I'm ever curious how the New York Times editors' book taste compares to that of more general readers, so I sliced and diced The New York Times "100 Notable …
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Tattered Cover, Denver CO
an amazing Colorado indie now at the airport, in case you're just passing through Anyone who has ever shopped at Tattered Cover knows to look for excuses to get …
8 Great Gifts for Writers
Unless you're an editor willing to wrap up a book deal and set it under a tree, consider one of these eight great gifts for writers - from stocking stuffers to …
11 Bits of Wisdom from Doris Lessing, On Reading, Writing, and Life
After I read in the New York Times that The Golden Notebook author Doris Lessing, who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, passed away this morning, I …
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Sara J. Henry: Learning to …
Today's guest author, Sara J. Henry, is a LONGtime friend. We were in a writing group together in Nashville two decades ago, working on our first novels! Her …
Ann Mah: Mastering the Art of French Writing
I had the great fortune to get to read Ann Mah's gorgeous new memoir, Mastering the Art of French Eating, in galley. It is such a lovely mix of travel, food, …
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6 Literary Quotes & a Bouquet of Newly-Sharpened Pencils on this 1st Day of Autumn
On this autumnal equinox - the perfect balance of day and night as the sun dips below the equator and we in the northern hemisphere move into autumn - I thought …
Three Things I Learned from Alice McDermott
Early in my writing career, I had the incredible good fortune to study with National Book Award winner Alice McDermott. The story of how she got started writing …
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