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NewWest.Net Boulder (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Best-selling Boulder author Jon Krakauer has withdrawn the manuscript for Hero, his book about Pat Tillman, according to Publishers Weekly (Via Slushpile.Net). Rachel Deahl writes that Doubleday had scheduled the book for an October release with a first printing of half a million copies. Denise Hill at the always informative NewPages blog pointed out Ahmede Hussain's interview with Brian Kevin,...
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NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Best-selling Boulder author Jon Krakauer has withdrawn the manuscript for Hero, his book about Pat Tillman, according to Publishers Weekly (Via Slushpile.Net). Rachel Deahl writes that Doubleday had scheduled the book for an October release with a first printing of half a million copies. Denise Hill at the always informative NewPages blog pointed out Ahmede Hussain's interview with Brian Kevin,...
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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Best-selling Boulder author Jon Krakauer has withdrawn the manuscript for Hero, his book about Pat Tillman, according to Publishers Weekly (Via Slushpile.Net). Rachel Deahl writes that Doubleday had scheduled the book for an October release with a first printing of half a million copies. Denise Hill at the always informative NewPages blog pointed out Ahmede Hussain's interview with Brian Kevin,...
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Rushdie knighted (BBC.com), Iran fumes (BBC.com) Atwood wins big prize in Spain (CBC.ca) Let children make their own reading decisons! (The Guardian) Jon Krakauer pulls imminent book on Pat Tillman (OregonLive.com) Stephen Henighan profiled (The Republic of East Vancouver) * * Sample: “He is late-forty-something but looks twenty years younger. Is this why the literati in Central Canada resent...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Jon Krakauer has withdrawn his book on Pat Tillman, the football star felled by friendly fire in Afghanistan. He will hold back the manuscript indefinitely.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... beginning tomorrow July 15 and continuing
through July 19, customers can download free of charge Jon Krakauer's "Into
the Wild" in MP3 format. In addition, the 15 popular titles listed below
are being offered at the discounted price of $9.95 through July 22.
-- "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
-- "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
-- "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
-- "The Logic of...
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Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Over the weekend I watched Sean Penn's film adaption (2007) of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild; (1996) a non fictional account of the adventures or journey of Christopher McCandless. ' Adventures' refers to turning one's back on modern industrial civilization and living in wild nature as a modern primitive. That's...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... stores including one near the Ann Arbor headquarters.Through Saturday, customers can download free Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild" in MP3 format. Through July 22, customers can download 15 titles for $9.95 including "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote and "Beloved" by Toni Morrison.DRUGS: Perrigo to grow officesPerrigo Co., which manufactures over-the-counter...
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SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... which is compatible with MP3 players and iPods. The company plans to offer free downloads of Jon Krakauer’s “Into the Wild” in MP3 format from Tuesday through Saturday this week. Fifteen popular titles will also be on sale for $9.95 though July 22, Borders said. Borders will be offering its download service in its new concept stores as well. The company has 10 of the new stores in operation...
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Musings From The Hinterland (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Back in January, I posted some thoughts occasioned upon the reading of Jon Krakauer's book Into The Wild . For our twentieth anniversary, the EMBLOS bestowed upon me the DVD of Sean Penn's recent film adaption , which I have now watched a couple of times. A review on this pages has been on my "to do" list for a bit, but other things have intervened and it slipped my mind. However, when I recently...
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... miles (40 kilometers) east of the bus, feared with the release last fall of the movie adapted from Jon Krakauer's best-seller of the same name. They envisioned hordes of copycats making dangerous pilgrimages in the footsteps of a character often seen as a spiritual visionary rather than an ill-prepared misfit, as many Alaskans view McCandless. People from all over the world have journeyed...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... the facts. Wheelwright defends a certain creativity in plot, but stresses limits. She holds up Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild as a model in this regard. "He's incredibly careful that you know when he's speculating," she says. "That's better than wildly inventing and not telling the reader."The course is already proving popular, both with students looking at straight non-fiction and those who,...
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Biomes Blog (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Hot air balloon panorama . You would never get me up in one of these things. X-Ray photography as art. Stuff You Should Know : Seven foods that can actually get you high. Movie Rating : Into the Wild. Sean Penn directed this fantastic film version of Jon Krakauer’s book about a kid who escapes his life to live on his own for a year in the Alaskan wilderness. 4.4 starfish out of 5. Now we’re...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
... of Healy, 25 miles east of the bus, feared with the release last fall of the movie adapted from Jon Krakauer's best-seller of the same name.They envisioned hordes of copycats making dangerous pilgrimages in the footsteps of a character often seen as a spiritual visionary rather than an ill-prepared misfit, as many Alaskans view McCandless.People from all over the world have journeyed to...
