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Daphne Du Maurier Books Go Digital For Rebecca?s 75th Birthday

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T12:22:39-04:00

Daphne Du Maurier‘s timeless novel�Rebecca is turning�75 this year, and to celebrate Little, Brown and Company is publishing 27 of the author’s titles digitally for the first time.The new eBooks include the titles:�My Cousin Rachel,�The King?s General,�The Birds and Other Stories,�Frenchman?s Creek,�The Scapegoat,�The Loving Spirit,�Hungry Hill,�Jamaica Inn,�The Parasites,�The Glass-Blowers,�Golden Lads: Sir Francis Bacon, Anthony Bacon, and Their Friends,�Don?t Look Now and Other
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The Best of the Internet

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T12:00:16-04:00

The Bygone Bureau asked a whole heap of people to write for their annual “Best of the Internet” post, and I was one of them. Come on over to see what I have to say about Ted Berrigan, a Twitter robot, and a certain type of found poetry.
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A Year in Reading: Kristopher Jansma

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T11:00:51-04:00

Most art from Warhol to present leaves me eye rolling and/or giggling. It finally helped me to understand the contents of the Whitney Museum as more than bad practical jokes.
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The Best literature, books, novel, fiction, nonfiction, poetry posts from around the web

Toni Morrison and Junot D�az in Conversation

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T11:00:35-04:00

Recommended Viewing: Toni Morrison spoke with�Junot D�az at the New York Public Library last week, and the organizers were good enough to record the entire conversation and put it online. The talk begins at the 40:09 mark, so you can either fast forward or click this link right here.
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Amazon Has a New Online Story Building Tool For TV & Film Writers

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T10:21:12-04:00

Amazon’s film division Amazon Studios has created a new tool to help writers build scripts called Amazon Storybuilder.The digital tool borrows from the paper notecard approach to writing story boards only it does it virtual. Screenwriters can create digital notecards and move them around on a virtual cork board. Writers can add text and photos to these notecards to help build out a story.�The new resource comes after the launch of Amazon Storyteller, which turns scripts into
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The Best literature, books, novel, fiction, nonfiction, poetry posts from around the web

Letters From Skye

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T09:30:00-04:00

Letters From Skye / Jessica BrockmoleNew York: Ballantyne, c2013.290 p.A quick and dirty review of this one: I read it for my own Postal Reading Challenge, and was very strongly reminded of the Guernsey book. It's set during the two wars, following Elspeth beginning a few years before WWI, with her daughter Margaret adding to the narrative at the beginning of WWII, when Margaret must go back through letters to discover her mother's past.I liked it, and especially liked the character of Elspeth.
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?The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? Series to Get Fourth Book Next Year

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T09:00:50-04:00

Swedish journalist�David Lagercrantz is writing the fourth book in Stieg Larsson‘s�Millennium trilogy and the follow up to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series will come out next year. The new book will start where Larsson’s wildly successful series left off.Radio Sweden has the scoop: “The new book will not be based on any notes�left behind by the late author, and instead will be a stand-alone sequel to the series. It will be released on the tenth anniversary of publication
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writing fatherhood, pt. 4 (of 4) : open book: ontario,

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T08:40:14-04:00

The fourth piece in my "Writing Fatherhood" quartet (see the first part here and the second part here and the third part here), is now online at Open Book: Ontario; in which I discuss some works by George Bowering, Dennis Cooley, Gary Barwin, Ed Dorn, Mark Cochrane, Rob Budde, Steven Heighton, Jason Christie and even myself. And then of course, our birth notice (in case you didn't catch).
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The Emperor's Blades by Brian Stavely

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T08:39:26-04:00

The Emperor's BladesI love fantasy, but prefer a certain kind of fantasy, high or epic fantasy with well-developed characters and intricate (lengthy) story lines.Favorite authors include: Kate Elliot, Robin Hobb, George R. R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, and Tolkien. Long and involved novels with great world-building, characters who breathe, and plenty of adventure draw me into another world.(I like other authors and fantasy genres as well, including a number of YA Fantasy
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Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye (thoughts)

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T08:38:45-04:00

I found Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye to be a challenge. I thought it was a short novel (the ebook version is 180 pages), only to be discover after fifty pages that it is in fact a collection of three long short stories or short novellas. More fundamentally, the title led me to expect, […]
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A Year in Reading: Helen Oyeyemi

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T06:00:37-04:00

A book I think of as Pure Enjoyment 2013: each story a mini film-noir unfolding across pages.
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The return of Lisbeth Salander...in book 4

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T04:38:35-04:00

I got in late last night so have only just seen this news in the MacLehose newsletter: a new Salander/Blomkvist title is to be written by David Lagercrantz and published in 2015:David Lagercrantz writes a fourth book in the Millennium series Stieg Larsson's Millennium books have sold more than 75 million copies in 50 countries, making it one of the most successful book series in modern times. Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist and the universe that Stieg Larsson created around Millennium,
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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T03:38:06-04:00

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata is the latest pick for the International Reads group, and we'll be discussing it on Goodreads and BookTube in December. Kawabata's reputation precedes him as he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968 and was the first Japanese author to do so. I was really excited to jump into Snow Country, and I was hopeful that this little volume (175 pages) would pack a huge punch. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface,
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Conversation with Poet Nathan Hoks

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T03:24:23-04:00

I first encountered the poetry of Nathan Hoks when he read from his new book The Narrow Circle at New Bo Books, located in the hip New Bohemia district of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I was intrigued by the poems he read and as he flipped through his book during the reading I was surprised to see images on some of the pages. I bought a copy and started to spend time with it. The more I read the poems and pondered the relationship between his poems and the pages with photographs, the more impressed I was
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Santa Monica noir, or Nighttime at the heister's hideaway

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T02:38:46-04:00

That's the beach in Santa Monica (all photos by your humble blogkeeper). It is not to be confused with the icy steps I salted down when I got back home to Philadelphia this evening. While I wallow in self-pity, here are some superlatives from the Los Angeles leg of my trip:1) Most evocative Raymond Chandler destination: A tie between Laurel Canyon and the Baldwin Hills oilfields. Or maybe the "Lido" Pier.2) Best place to eat: The Astro Burger at Melrose and Gower.3) Most
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Some House-Keeping AKA More Plans for 2014...

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T01:39:08-04:00

Hosted by The Indextrious ReaderJanuary 1, 2014 - December 31, 2014There are a few ways to participate in this challenge:Postcard Level: Read and review 4 books with a postal theme.Snail Mail Level: Read and review 8 books with a postal theme.Parcel Post Level: Read and review 12 books with a postal theme.Air Mail Express Level: Read and review 12 books with a postal theme AND commit to sending more old
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Reader's Diary #1093- David Boyd (writer) and Drew Ng (illustrations): Battle of Queenston Heights

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T00:38:57-04:00

When I was a wee lass growing up in Newfoundland, I remember my history classes as either being Newfoundland-history or world-history. Since leaving Newfoundland and living in the north for the past 12 years, I've also picked up a lot of northern-specific history. I'm not diminishing all of that, I think more Canadians should learn the country's history beyond Ontario, Quebec, and the early days of colonialism. That said, I also think the Ontario/Quebec/Early Colonialism stuff's important and
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P.D. James, The Children of Men

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T00:38:19-04:00

Start with the movie Children of Men, because it's fantastic and terrible and all the rest of it: it'll probably inspire you to think about these themes, in the sense of keeping from sleeping soundly, and then you'll want to read P.D. James' cut-crystal bowl of a novel The Children of Men.They tell different stories, make no mistake. Watching the movie will have next to no effect on your ability to predict just what'll happen next in the novel, but that's no criticism of either. As paired
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A New Award for the Promotion of Irish Literature

blogdig.net — 2013-12-18T10:00:06-04:00

A new laureateship award worth ?150,000 was created by Ireland’s Arts Council in conjunction with University College Dublin and New York University. The award will be given to “an outstanding Irish writer of fiction” with hopes that the author will “promote [Irish] literature around the world” and “inspire the public to engage with the best […]
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