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McClatchy Newspapers
1/14/2009, by Elise Ackerman
San Jose Mercury News (MCT) - Like others, Mark Coker, a Los Gatos, Calif., entrepreneur and aspiring novelist, has learned about the challenges facing new authors _ many of whom never get published. And even if they do, aside from a handful of blockbusters, the few books that make it to the ...
A road map to Gaza: Robert Zelnick's ‘Israel's Unilateralism' lays out the background of current events
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1/7/2009, by Carlin Romano
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - "Israel's Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza" by Robert Zelnick; Hoover Institution Press ($15) Back in 1936, Aldous Huxley borrowed "eyeless in Gaza," a phrase from Milton's "Samson Agonistes," for the title of perhaps his best novel. That story revolves around a Huxleyan ...
Tide continues to rise on Amazon
McClatchy Newspapers
1/7/2009, by Diane Evans
DelMio.com (MCT) - If Starbucks almost single-handedly changed America's taste for coffee, from mild to strong, then Amazon.com pulled off a similar coup in leading Americans toward online shopping. First for books. Then for many other things. Not convinced? Consider two separate announcements on ...
The brave new e-world
McClatchy Newspapers
1/7/2009, by Allen Pierleoni
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - I recently overheard a 20-something woman say to her Gen Y friend, "I just couldn't live without my BlackBerry!" Yes, we've come a long way from communicating by smoke signal and drumbeat _ though some say text messaging is a step backward in those directions.
This ...
Writing too enjoyable an endeavor for John Updike to consider retirement
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1/7/2009, by John Mark Eberhart
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Stephen King has talked about it. The late Kurt Vonnegut actually did it, for the most part. John Updike has no intention of it. The word is retire, and it's just not Updike's style. Despite his age, 76, and despite half a century on the American literary stage, he ...
Best books of 2008: Robert Olen Butler to Stephen King
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1/5/2009, by Chauncey Mabe
Sun Sentinel (MCT) - So many books, so little time. To name only three of the important books I wish I'd read this year: "Unaccustomed Earth," by Jhumpa Lahiri; David Carr's "The Night of the Gun," and most regrettably, Roberto Balano's "2666." Yet 2008 proved exceptionally good for the books I did ...
The best kids' books of the year
McClatchy Newspapers
1/5/2009, by Sue Corbett
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Each year, the kids and I spend December winnowing our list. Not the one for Santa; the one that has book titles on it. Figuring out which books were our favorites of the year is hard work. This year, we found an abundance of gems both in the tweens-and-teens novel ...
This year's books explored politics, immigrants, family ties and war wounds
McClatchy Newspapers
1/5/2009, by Connie Ogle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Choosing the best books of the year is a haphazard business. There are too many books published each year for one person to make a stab at reading them all. Even if you narrow your scope to include only the good stuff, you still fall short. So instead, we offer a ...
Best mysteries of 2008
McClatchy Newspapers
12/17/2008, by Oline H. Cogdill
Sun Sentinel (MCT) - In "The Finder," Colin Harrison combines a strong eye for social details and the intricacies of New York City for a novel that is equally literary fiction and mystery. A scheme in which office cleaners steal a new pharmaceutical company's paperwork leads to cohesive plot about ...
Shakedown shakes publishing houses to the core
McClatchy Newspapers
12/15/2008, by Diane Evans
DelMio.com (MCT) - Maybe you're someone just too snobbish for nostalgia. If so, don't read on, because I'm not going to apologize for feeling regret over the news that Doubleday is being dismantled as a division of Random House Inc. Doubleday is just one of the casualties in a publishing industry ...
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