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…Ali has taken the action out of the home and into the high-octane kitchen of the executive chef Gabriel Lightfoot, whose restaurant at the Imperial Hotel gives her a wider, more public space in which to continue her exploration of the modern immigrant experience.
In changing her setting, she almost manages to change [...:]

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Last night I approached the final pages of Dan Brown’s novel, “Angels and Demons”. And boy, does it have a twist. I didn’t even see it coming.
That’s a lot for a psychotherapist, where suspicion mixed with a little of cynicism, comes with the trade.
I emphasize, the so-called bad writing that critics accuse Brown of [...:]

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What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace any thing, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds [...:]

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Author and poet, David Mura, says that once we uncover why we are writing, our job becomes easier. I liken his question not so much to answering the why of how I have come to the writing life, rather, what story am I telling.
The Amherst Writing Method subscribes to the belief that everything we [...:]

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Authors, Clarence Mollack and Jarold Imes, will join me in discussing their works, “Verbal Vacancy” (Mollock), and “SOAM I Was Made to Love Her” (Imes) in the anthology, The Soul of a Man, published by Peace in the Storm Press, and due for release in June 2009.
So tune in!
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Creators have trouble maintaining meaning. …
A creative person is vulnerable to meaning crises, and hence depression, by virtue of our relationship to meaning.
Eric Maisel, PhD, in the introduction of his book, the VAN GOGH BLUES, The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression
Three chapters later Maisel expounds of the artist, “…it is not enough to ward [...:]

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A novel that was yesterday shortlisted for the Orange Prize will be made available as a free download for a day.
Burnt Shadows is being offered to anyone who wishes to download it by the publisher Bloomsbury.
The book by Kamila Shamsie, a Pakistani-born author who now lives in London, concerns Hiroko Tanaka, a survivor of the [...:]

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Dan Brown’s first new novel since The DaVinci Code was announced yesterday. Inevitably, it involves a global cult and a race against time to unlock a secret formula.
Details of the plot are likely to remain fiercely guarded until much nearer the publication date of September 15, but intrigue centres on whether Brown’s vast and conspiracy-crazed [...:]

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Last Friday I went bike riding with my 10-year-old. It was great. We were by the water. She wobbled a lot, though she never fell.
I rode behind her. The path we took is a popular spot for runners and other bikers as well as walkers. There are two small lanes.
On one side lay the [...:]

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A few years ago I made a promise to my writer friends that if I ever had a novel hit the top twenty of the New York Times mass market bestseller list that I would share all the information I was given about the book so writers could really see what it takes to get [...:]

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