"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 …
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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 …
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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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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Poem in Your Pocket Day
Of the many wonderful moments in National Poetry month, my favorite is "Poem in Your Pocket Day" - which is today. The idea is simple: Put a copy of a poem you …
Shakespeare & Company, Paris France
where Anais Nin, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, and Ernest Hemingway have been I'm in Paris for a month, writing and walking in the steps of some literary greats. …
Poetry Tuesday: Mark Doty on Knowing What Want is
Since April is National Poetry Month, I've been looking around at what different poets have to say about getting started. This quote by Mark Doty - from an …
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The Page Davidson Clayton Poetry Prize
I read the most extraordinary poem yesterday, "what you'd find buried in the dirt under charles f. kettering sr. high school (detroit, michigan)" by francine j. …
Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th Birthday
Dickens Quotes for Writers, on the Occasion of his 200th Birthday: “I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever …
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