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James Glen Stovall

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http://www.goodreads.com/profile/JimStovall

born

January 01, 1948

gender

male

place of birth

Nashville, TN, United States

website

http://stayingbooked.blogspot.com

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction, Sports

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James Glen Stovall serves as an Edward J. Meeman Distinguished Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media. Before joining the UT faculty in 2006, Stovall was a visiting professor of mass communication at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va. He came to Emory and Henry in 2003 after serving as a journalism professor for 25 years at the University of Alabama, where he is professor emeritus.

books by James Glen Stovall

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	Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, Why, And How (Paperback) by James Glen Stovall (goodreads author!) avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2004	my rating:
	Disconnected: Public Opinion and Politics in Alabama (Paperback) by Patrick R. Cotter, James Glen Stovall, Samuel H., III Fisher avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1994	my rating:
	Infographics: A Journalist's Guide (Paperback) by James Glen Stovall (goodreads author!) avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 1997	my rating:
	Writing for the Mass Media (5th Edition) by James Glen Stovall (goodreads author!) avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2001	my rating:
	Complete Editor, The (2nd Edition) by James Glen Stovall (goodreads author!) avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2005	my rating:

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On being an author - without doing any writing (Nonfiction)

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description: Margaret Truman, Eliot Roosevelt, Steve Allen - mystery writers? Did they really take the time out of their celebrityhood to craft, write and rewrite those mystery novels you see on the bookshelf?

Jim is currently reading

	05/13 Jim is currently reading: Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game (Modern Library Chronicles) by George Vecsey bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	05/11 Jim is currently reading: Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (Hardcover) by Cait Murphy bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	05/11 Jim is currently reading: The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved (Hardcover) by Judith Freeman bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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May 15

Jim made a comment in the group mystery lovers—The fiction writer's bookshelf topic:

Jim wrote: "

If you are interested in writing fiction, here are two of the best books you can have:

Christo...more

If you are interested in writing fiction, here are two of the best books you can have:

Christopher Vogler
The Writer's Journey
http://www.amazon.com/Writers-...

Renni Brown and David King
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
http://www.amazon.com/Self-Edi...
(These are the Amazon links.)

No one explains "story" better than Vogler.

More about books, writing, writers (as well as bees, baseball and other important matters) at Staying Booked, http://stayingbooked.blogspot.....
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May 14

Jim wrote On being an author - without doing any writing: .

"We all know that politicians don't write their own speeches.

But novelists? Mystery novelists, in" ...more

May 13

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Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game (Modern Library Chronicles)
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May 12

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The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, And the Murder of Jose Robles (Paperback)
by Stephen Koch
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read in April, 2008

Jim said: " * The Spanish Civil War and the leftist learnings of many 1930s artists are central to the story of the disintegration of the friendship of Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.

A test: Which of these men have you heard of?

* Ernest Hem...more * The Spanish Civil War and the leftist learnings of many 1930s artists are central to the story of the disintegration of the friendship of Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.

A test: Which of these men have you heard of?

* Ernest Hemingway? You kidding? Of course. Read his books and many of his short stories. About the best writer the 20th century produced.

* John Dos Passos? Well, yeah, sort of. A writer, sure. Never read any of his stuff.

* Jose Robles? Sorry. Never heard of him.

Those three come together, sort of, in an odd but interesting story of the 1930s' major literary lights by Stephen Koch titled The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles.

Hemingway and Dos Passos in the middle of the 1930 were America's two leading novelists. They were close friends and supporters of the left-wing Popular Front, a Soviet-backed organization of writers and artists. The major battle of the forces of the left against the fascists came during the Spanish Civil War, but with the mix of internal Spanish politics and Soviet meddling, nothing in this tale is simple. The story revolves around the dissipation of the friendship between Hemingway and Dos Passos. That occurred for a number of reasons, including Hemingway's paranoia and his role in spreading the rumor that Jose Robles -- Dos Passos' friend -- was executed by the Spanish government because he was a fascist spy.

Koch has carefully researched this tale of Depression era radical chic. He includes many interesting sidelights, such as the development of the relationship between Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, the noted journalist who would become Hemingway's third wife. (Gellhorn is about to be honored by the U.S. Postal Service.) Hemingway is clearly the villain, and Dos Passos is the good guy in Koch's view, and it's hard to disagree with him.

One of the over-arching lessons of this book is how extensively the Communist and leftist movement gripped many of the nation's leading authors and artists in the 1930. This hold led many of them to ignore Stalin's atrocities until it was too late, and they too had blood on their hands as Uncle Joe's apologists.

If you are interested in any of these issues, this is an excellent book.

Highly recommended.
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May 11

Jim added:
The Polish Officer: A Novel (Paperback)
by Alan Furst
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The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel (Paperback)
by Alan Furst
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Jim added:
Echo Burning (Paperback)
by Lee Child
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Jim added:
The Enemy (Jack Reacher Novels (Paperback))
by Lee Child
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One Shot (Jack Reacher)
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