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August 30, 2011
The FictionFinder Quiz from Just the Right Book!
Today one of our favorite booksellers, Roxanne Coady from RJ Julia, tells us about the amazing FictionFinder Quiz from Just the Right Book. Seriously, you have to try this. The recommendations that …
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July 22, 2011
Traveling While Married Now Available in E-Book
Mary-Lou Weisman’s hilarious collection of essays, Traveling While Married, is now available as an e-book! The book traverses a lifetime of travel-a-deux, from honeymoon to elderhostel. It features illustrations by New Yorker …
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May 12, 2011
What We’re Reading: Annie Proulx’s Close Range and Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses
I’ve been really into Westerns and horse books lately. This is surprising to me, since I’ve only been horseback riding twice and both times it was a total disaster. In January, I …
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May 5, 2011
Amy Stewart: “A funny thing has happened with Wicked Plants”
A funny thing has happened with Wicked Plants. It’s turned into a road show. A carnival of sorts. Social networking, nineteenth-century style. A year before Wicked Plants was released, I was hanging …
May 4, 2011
Kathy Pories on Barbara Kingsolver & the Bellwether Prize
Five years ago, I stood on the periphery of the Duke University Chapel during the North Carolina Literary Festival, straining to hear the speaker. I was on the periphery because the chapel …
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April 27, 2011
National Poetry Month: Which Shore?
National Poetry Month is, alas, drawing to a close, but this doesn’t mean that you should put your poetry books back on the shelf to accrue dust for another year! Poetry’s charms …
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April 22, 2011
National Poetry Month: The Letting Go
What can I say about Emily Dickinson besides that she was a genius, a one-of-a-kind, inimitable talent, and that alongside Walt Whitman she is considered to be one of the two parents …
April 15, 2011
What We’re Reading: Alexandra Styron’s Reading My Father
In 2006, when I was an assistant publicist at Random House, I was assigned to publicize the reprinting of Darkness Visible, William Styron’s extraordinarily moving memoir on his depression. I knew many …
