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Stray Carrier Pigeon (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Paul Lisicky read tonight at USD . From " The Boy and His Mother are Stuck! ", this: "Just yesterday, when we were all a little calmer and safer, my younger brother put his palms on the oven of her and murmured duck, duck, I want a duck as if words alone could make the thing inside her grow feathers." Lately, many people around me--and when I say "around me," I include...
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the purest of treats (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
He never graduated high school. He laid brick and cinder blocks for a living. Sometimes he pointed out houses and other buildings he had worked on. He used to tell me, "I worked hard, very hard." He started reading seriously as a young boy. He knew a lot about history and geography. When I knew him he read mainly fiction. He liked most kinds of popular novels but especially ones that were...
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Austinist (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Texas Book Festival OH SNAP! So, Austin is considered the Live Music Capital of the world? Well that’s not all that’s crackin’ up and spacklin' in and amongst our cultured ranks. Some of us can read, and certainly do. Which is why Austin is blessed to host the Texas Book Festival again for 2009. Music’s nice and all for listenin’ and whatnot, but BOOKS and WRITERS will...
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Surviving Oz (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Thanks to you, my lovely readers , I have books again! Check out the new reading pile: I went with the ones I could get through the library where I work, since I'm lazy efficient like that. Here's the rundown: Gerald Durell - My Family & Other Animals - picked this one solely because I liked the title Alison Boot h - Stillwater Creek - free preview copy from a book club I belong too (yaaay for...
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David Gergen (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Boston , Events , Massachusetts , New England Don't miss the Boston Book Festival Saturday Posted by Kimberly Sherman This Saturday, Oct. 24, is the Boston Book Festival , with an all-star lineup that will have you scrambling to get to and from all the presentations and panels featuring internationally known writers, scholars, critics, and commentators; listening in on programming for children, teens,...
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The Pulitzer Project (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Empire Falls Richard Russo 483 pages Miles Roby lives in the small town of Empire Falls, Maine. Once a thriving textile mill town, Empire Falls now suffers from lack of economic development. Miles runs the Empire Grill, a job he has held since leaving college to care for his dying mother. He is separated from his wife Janine, who is about to remarry. Miles and Janine share responsibility for their...
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Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
An animated video from Barnes & Noble: Author Richard Russo reading an excerpt from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Richard Russo will write the script for an untitled HBO series about the ongoing Catskills Gas Rush.
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The dish (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
My column on the 18U Team USA trials went up the other day. Today’s Mike & Mike radio hit should be online later this morning. Richard Russo was already one of my favorite novelists after I’d read just two of his books, Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool*, but The Risk Pool cemented my affinity for [...]
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Blame by Michelle Huneven.About the book, from the publisher:Michelle Huneven, Richard Russo once wrote, is “a writer of extraordinary and thrilling talent.” That talent explodes with her third book, Blame, a spellbinding novel of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and the lack of it, and the moral ambiguities that ensnare us all.The story:...
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John's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Russo’s one of my favorite writers, but I found this one a slog. A little too New England-y for me, and a little slow. I’ll still pick up Russo’s next book, but this one wasn’t too great. [can you tell I've been traveling a lot? many books...]
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The Pajama Gardener (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
I'm introducing authors all over the place! Got interviews up at my other blog, and over here I'm pleased to tour the Girlfriends of the Girlfriends Cyber Circuit. This week, please welcome Joanne Rendell , author of several novels, including Crossing Washington Square . 1. New readers want to know about your book! In 2-3 sentences, can you tell us the basic premise? Crossing Washington Square is a...
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TV.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
... It's Alway Sunny in Philadelphia writers Sonny Lee and Patrick Walsh have sold a new comedy to ABC. Family Business "centers on a dysfunctional Midwestern family that tries to keep their grocery business afloat after being rocked by divorce." Last season, Lee wrote Sunny 's "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis," so we're hoping that his new show deals with similar themes of geopolitical...
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Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
TKO: Former Moneyball director Steven Soderbergh will get to make another movie, namely, Knockout , a spy thriller starring sexy mixed martial artist Gina Carano . In her first starring role, the rising MMA star will play a character from the wrong side of the tracks who utilizes her fighting skills for some unspecified secretive stuff. Relativity Media is financing, and we hope they won't change...
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siggy057mb | 08/17/2009
Download On the Doll in DVD, DivX, PDA quality! Genres: Drama Countries: USA Actors: Janowicz, Josh Jaron Sowan, Stephen Tre Crawford, Clayne Wes Russo, James Janitor Ben-Victor, Paul Jimmy Sours Jemison, Eddie Mr. Garrett Giamatti, Marcus Uncle Lou Baez, Dave Rick Chambers, Tyson Guy in Store Cohn, Ethan Brian De Leon, Germaine Keith DePriest, Timothy Lee Stevie Planters North, Nolan Charlie Palm,...
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