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Annette The Author's Book Recommendation- Tree of Smoke

Title: Tree of Smoke
Author:  Denis Johnson
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Picador (1 Aug 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0330449214
ISBN-13: 978-0330449212
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4 cm
Product Description

Tree of Smoke – the name given to a 'psy op' that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned – is Denis Johnson's most gripping, visionary [...:]

LIS News – Conversational Reading

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Conversational Reading

URL: http://www.conversationalreading.com/... 1 hour 51 min agoAgainst the Well-Made Novel6 hours 34 min ago
Very interesting essay by Zadie Smith (who has a new book of essays out). First she introduces a new literary manifesto, Reality Hunger
An excited American writing student gave me a proof copy of the book, and during a recent semester spent [...:]

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 Very interesting essay by Zadie Smith (who has a new [...:]

Annette The Author's Book Recommendation- Disgrace by J M Coetzee

Title: Disgrace (Vintage Booker)
Author:  J.M. Coetzee
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage (6 Aug 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099535149
ISBN-13: 978-0099535140
Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 1.6 cm
Product Description
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned [...:]

Write Write

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Kindle: Amazon's Wireless Reading Device
Amazon.com's Kindle is a wireless, portable reading device with instant access to more than 300,000 books, blogs, newspapers and magazines. The Kindle's revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper. It is simple to use: no computer, no cables, no synching. 3G wireless lets [...:]

Writers Digest The Best 101 Writers Websites 2009

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101 Best Websites for Writers: General Resources


May 15, 2009

These are the best general-resource websites of 2009 for writers. Click here to check out the restof this year's 101 Best Websites for Writers.

www.askoxford.com
We love this site's Word of the Day e-mail function. Without it, we wouldn't know what a "sudatorium" is. (By the way, it's [...:]

Lit Blog of the Week – Booksquare

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Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism.

Square One

Digital Rights Management — A Wrinkle or An Opportunity
November 16th, 2009 · 19 Comments
by Kassia Krozser

For the past few weeks, we've been talking about Digital Rights Management ("DRM"), and the diversity of comments have been fascinating. I still do not believe DRM prevents or slows piracy*. Add [...:]

Annette The Author's Book Recommendation – The Blind Assassin

Title: The Blind Assassin
Author: Margaret Atwood
Paperback: 656 pages
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New Ed edition (3 Sep 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1860498809
ISBN-13: 978-1860498800
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 4.4 cm
Product Description
Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their [...:]

Book Recommendation- The Quickening Maze

Title: The Quickening Maze
Author:  Adam Foulds
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First Edition; 1st printing. edition (7 May 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0224087460
ISBN-13: 978-0224087469
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.8 cm
Product Description
Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, "The Quickening Maze" centres on the first incarceration of the great nature [...:]

Annette The Author's Book Recommendation – The Sea

Title: The Sea
Author:  John Banville
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (21 April 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0330483293
ISBN-13: 978-0330483292
Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.5 cm
Product Description

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.
 The Grace [...:]