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James Chandler: Titanic Centennial Celebration 16 Apr 2012 | 05:27 am
Bowker's issued a press release about the 98 books published for the Centennial of the Titanic's sinking. Most seem to look at the same event from different angles or work with Cameron's version. No o...
Jennifer duBois: Mental Distress Across Culture and History 14 Apr 2012 | 02:15 am
The New York Times Magazine recently ran a fascinating article about the group of teenage girls in upstate New York who succumbed, en masse, to a set of mysterious symptoms—such as twitching and s...
Jennifer duBois: When One Falls In Love With a Book 12 Apr 2012 | 02:00 am
Really loving a book—especially one that not everyone else in the world has read—comes with a very particular blend of emotions. There’s the feeling of private elation, as though the book’s been ...
Jennifer duBois: How should one proceed when the cause is lost? 10 Apr 2012 | 02:00 am
Not long ago, I was asked in a radio interview what I might do if confronted with the situation my character, Irina, finds herself in A Partial History of Lost Causes. Given a diagnosis of impending H...
C. J. Noonan: What a Newly Published Author Learns 22 Jul 2011 | 05:31 am
“Evocative” is a powerful word in a book review. The critic implies mystery, depth of feeling, swell of remembrance, emotion rising. Readers assume fascination, excitement, complexity, sensation. As a...
C. J. Noonan: What a Newly Published Author Learns 23 Jun 2011 | 03:00 am
“Evocative” is a powerful word in a book review. The critic implies mystery, depth of feeling, swell of remembrance, emotion rising. Readers assume fascination, excitement, complexity, sensation. As a...
Meg Waite Clayton: In Praise of Writing Friends … and Publishing and Bookselling Ones, Too 27 Mar 2011 | 07:00 am
The history of my writing starts with a purse. Like the character of Linda in my second novel, The Wednesday Sisters, my first writing teacher—at a college extension class—dumped hers out over the tab...
Treasures of the Mind 22 Mar 2011 | 12:32 pm
My third novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells goes on sale tomorrow, and I'm so looking forward to sharing the joy of that at Kepler's, where friends will be gathering for refreshments and a short reading. B...
Treasures of the Mind 22 Mar 2011 | 08:36 am
My third novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells goes on sale tomorrow, and I'm so looking forward to sharing the joy of that at Kepler's, where friends will be gathering for refreshments and a short reading. B...
Belle Yang: My Life, My Family, My Graphic Memoir in Snapshots 8 Jul 2010 | 01:34 pm
I will be at Kepler's at 7:30 P.M. July 8th talking about the process of making a graphic novel. Please join me. *********** A drawing from 1967, the first year of my family's arrival in America. I ...
