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Straying into the political only in so far as it touches the literary, galleycat points us to this interesting Time Magazine article about Sarah Palin which delves into her alleged...
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Jodi Picoult speaks with the Guardian about her writing routine and gives advice to new writers....
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Visit the Invisible Library, an alphabetical list of books that exist only within other books for some (extremely!) light reading.
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With Amazon's recent purchase of Shelfari, the future of the various social networking avenues for book lovers remains unclear. I'm a Goodreads man myself, as are most (according to Tim...
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God has inhabited the body of a young Dinka woman in the Sudan. When she is killed in the Darfur desert, he dies along with her, and word of his...
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In American Nerd, Benjamin Nugent delves into the subculture and history of the nerd, from Pride and Prejudice through the World of Warcraft and anime nerds of the present day....
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In honor of the Beijing Olympics, The Guardian gives you the opportunity to test your knowledge of Chinese Literature. My score (5 out of 10) indicates that more brushing...
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We've all seen those READ posters adorned with celebrity faces in libraries and bookstores. Now you can make your own READ mini-poster at the American Library Association's (ALA) web site....
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When Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore) traded the physically demanding job of running his jazz club for the sedentary routine of a professional novelist, he learned he was going...
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Speaking of the Amazon Kindle, e-book readers, and how nothing will ever really replace the experience of holding an actual book in my hands, I just now downloaded and installed...
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'Spring Awakening' The cast talks about the companion book to the Broadway musical at 7 p.m. Monday at Books Inc., 601 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, (415) 776-1111. Neal Stephenson The author of "Anathem" will read from his novel, and there will be live...
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The Good Thief By Hannah Tinti The Dial Press; 327 pages; $25 From the introduction of Ren, a lovable one-handed orphan with a talent for stealing, to its grim but satisfying conclusion, Hannah Tinti's novel "The Good Thief" has all the makings of a classic -...
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Once vilified as the scourge of American society, comic books have today assumed control of the world. Well, at least its cinemas. If you're curious about the origins of this phenomenon, read David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and...
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TODAY John Brandi and Geri Digiorno The poets read from their works and show recent collages. 3 p.m. Claudia Chapline, 3445 Shoreline Hwy., Stinson Beach. (415) 868-2308. Friends of the Livermore Library Book Sale Noon-4 p.m. Former Livermore Public Library,...
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Freedom's Battle The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention By Gary J. Bass Knopf; 509 pages; $35 When NATO bombed Serbia in 1999 to stop human rights abuses in the province of Kosovo, Henry Kissinger called it an "abrupt abandonment of the concept of national...
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The Chronicle's book editors recommend these titles reviewed recently in Books or Datebook. How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 266 pages; $24) by James Wood: New Yorker critic and novelist James Wood examines works by such writers as Austen,...
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The most interesting project in American poetry isn't really an American project. The Earthworks initiative is an award-winning series of poetry collections by contemporary American Indian writers published by Salt Publishing - one of the most well-respected...
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The CIA and the Culture of Failure U.S. Intelligence From the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq By John Diamond Stanford University Press; 536 pages; $29.95 When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, the CIA lost the adversary that, for the previous...
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You Can't Be President The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America By John R. MacArthur Melville House; 288 pages; $15.95; paperback The first books to decry the degraded state of American democracy under George W. Bush were contracted before Inauguration...
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This weekFICTION Bay Area Last weekWeeks on list 1THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, Shaffer and Barrows (The Dial Press; 277 pages; $22): An English author corresponds with members of a club formed while their island was under German...
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Some of the statistics Potrero Hill author Raj Patel includes in his book, "Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System," can turn the stomach: At the same time 800 million people are going hungry on our planet, 1 billion of us are...
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The Forsaken An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia By Tim Tzouliadis The Penguin Press, 436 pages; $29.95 In his Jan. 11, 1944, State of the Union address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true...
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In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville visited the freshly minted United States and recorded his observations in the seminal "Democracy in America." In two new picture books, familiar and very French book characters follow his lead in making a grand tour, but their...
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In the wake (pun intended) of Stephenie Meyer's juggernaut of a young adult series, the Twilight vampire saga, a raft of novels about death and young people have arrived this fall. In some cases, the undead are teenage zombies (Zombie Blondes by Brian James;...
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A new batch of picture books offers fresh takes on all the traditional back-to-school ingredients: pencils, books, paintbrushes and soccer. Oh, and penguins, too. The Pencil is written by the same British team that created the hilarious "The Runaway Dinner,"...
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Demons, gargoyles and monsters from the id populate the pages of three recent science fiction and fantasy novels by first-time authors. In the alternate America depicted in Daryl Gregory's Pandemonium (DelRey; 288 pages; $13; trade paperback), demonic...
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How Fiction Works By James Wood Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 266 pages; $24 "How Fiction Works" is an audacious title, not only because explaining the mechanisms of fiction is a large task, but also because fiction doesn't seem to be working as well as it used...
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"2666." Bay Area readers, remember those numbers. 7-9, 7-9, 6-6 and 8-4. Niners, Raiders, Stanford and Cal fans, respectively, you should hope for those numbers. Roberto Bolaño's swan song, "2666," won't have much competition as the most eagerly anticipated...
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San Francisco author Colette Lafia knows something about seeking comfort, hope and happiness in the tender moments following loss. She weathered the turbulence of her own infertility, chronic insomnia and the death of her close 38-year-old sister to breast...
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As the ferry approached St. Peter Port on a gray day in June, Berkeley author Annie Barrows held her breath. It was her first view of Guernsey, the English Channel island where - in her imagination, at least - she had spent more than a year. "Is everything I'...
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The Chronicle book editors recommend these titles reviewed recently in Books or Datebook: How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken (HarperCollins; 456 pages; $26.95) by Daniel Mendelsohn: There is never a sense of deliberate contrariness or...
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A week before David Carr's memoir, "The Night of the Gun," was released, a dozen people had already told me to read it. This was partly because I had recently finished a memoir based on some similar topics, and partly because the book had the kind of...
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Roger Moore, who starred in seven Bond films in the 1970s and 1980s, recounts his days as the dashing superspy in his forthcoming memoir, "My Word Is My Bond," and says things weren't always as they seemed. "Jimmy Bond had a big jet boat chase in 'Live and...
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Even as readers snap up the books of Stephen Covey, Suze Orman and Tony Robbins, critics of self-help insist that the books peddle empty advice to the narcissistic. But Novato resident Brian Klemmer, who conducts leadership seminars and whose new book, "The...
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Driving in America can make a person crazy. The jerk in the SUV cuts in front of you and blocks your vision. The ditz on the cell phone doesn't bother to signal when slowing down for a right turn. And then there's that slick car with the windows tinted so...
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- Salman Rushdie strongly criticized his publisher for pulling a historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride over concerns about angering Muslims. Rushdie, whose "The Satanic Verses" led to a death decree in 1989 from Iran's Ayatollah...
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The book discussion for "Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives," an oral history published by McSweeney's and edited by San Francisco State University writing professor and novelist Peter Orner, was a typical reading - with a slight twist. A...
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Master of Ceremonies A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales By David Henry Sterry Canongate; 381 pages; $14.95 paperback Sex sells. That much we know. For the Chippendales, it sells seats. It sells calendars. It exchanges fantasy for cash...
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If you pay attention to the national news, it's been the world against San Francisco lately. If we aren't getting hammered for the city's activism in the gay marriage debate, our role as a "sanctuary city" routinely causes controversy. But San Francisco just...
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Axel Alonso, the driving force behind the X-Men's move to San Francisco, was born in the city. He fell in love with comics as a preteen, making regular trips to the old Best of Two Worlds comic book shop near 19th and Irving. Alonso is an executive editor at...
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89. Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father...
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Publishing News: 'CSI' creator creates digital hybrid -- "CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker has made a seven-figure deal with Dutton to create a series of three suspense-thriller "digital novels."
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Publishing News: People franchise adapted as hourlong special -- ABC has scheduled hourlong special "Half Their Size: The People Magazine Weight Loss Challenge" for Sept. 30 at 10 p.m.
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Publishing News: Sale includes Advocate, Out, Alyson Books -- Regent Media has acquired gay-focused publishing concern PlanetOut.
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Publishing News: Publisher's portfolio includes Advocate, Out -- Regent Media has acquired gay-focused publishing concern PlanetOut.
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Publishing News: Olympian's memoir set for holiday season -- Simon & Schuster has announced that Olympian superman Michael Phelps will write a book about his exploits in Beijing to be published in time for the holiday season.
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Publishing News: Eon passes on film rights to Faulks' 007 novel -- "Bond Is Back," according to the costly campaign heralding the latest 007 novel "Devil May Care," but that doesn?t mean the tome will be turned into a James Bond movie.
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Publishing News: Network sole sponsor of Aug. 25 issue -- ABC Television will be the sole sponsor of the Aug. 25 issue of TV Guide, the mag and network announced Monday. The issue will feature 21 ad pages, all of them from the Disney-owned net.
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Publishing News: Writer was a correspondent for Variety -- Entertainment writer Jack Zink, longtime Florida correspondent for Variety and writer and editor for several Florida newspapers, died Monday of cancer in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He was 61.
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Publishing News: DirecTV founder named new publisher, CEO -- DirecTV founder Eddy Hartenstein has taken the reins of the Los Angeles Times as publisher and CEO.
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Publishing News: Military will not take action over civilian deaths -- News agency Reuters has criticized a decision by the Israeli army that it will not be taking any legal action against a tank crew that killed a Reuters cameraman and eight young civilians in the Gaza Strip in April.
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Publishing News: Five-time president of HFPA also a SAG member -- Yani Begakis, a five-time president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., died Aug. 12 in Los Angeles. He was 81.
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Publishing News: New issues to have 'multigenerational' focus -- The Source, which was in bankruptcy last year, is relaunching with a 20th-anniversary issue and a new focus - a direction that its co-publisher says will restore the magazine, once known as hip-hop's bible, to prominence.
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Publishing News: Fall fueled by newspaper write-down, revs -- How bad is the business outlook for Tribune Co.'s newspapers? Bad enough for the company to take a $3.8 billion goodwill writedown on the value of its newspaper assets, which include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and Orlando Sentinel.
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Publishing News: Reverses decision on publishing rights -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a ruling that awarded John Steinbeck's son and granddaughter publishing rights to 10 of the author's early works, including "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men."
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Publishing News: Weinstein toasts Woody's 'Barcelona' -- WHEN HIS newest book "Legacy of Secrecy" comes out in November from Counterpoint Press, we'll be on the receiving end of new info about the Mafia's glamorous Hollywood villain, Johnny Rosselli, and also about how the JFK and RFK assassinations tie into James Earl Ray's murder of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Publishing News: Wrote 'Butley,' 'Common Pursuit' -- British playwright, screenwriter and memoirist Simon Gray died Wednesday in London. He was 71 and had previously been diagnosed with cancer.
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Publishing News: Time, Sports Illustrated articles come to life -- Time Inc. Studios, together with management-production company the Collective and XYZ Films, will produce features and documentaries based on articles published in Time Inc. publications such as Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Life.
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Publishing News: Brooks and Dunn expand into publishing biz -- Don Cook, who produced many of Brooks & Dunn's biggest hits, notes the two are more writing collaborators than singing collaborators. Appropriately then, the two have expanded into literature, producing a novel last spring with the help of veteran humorist-novelist Bill Fitzhugh.
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Publishing News: Amy Gross leaves Hearst on her own terms -- The Goodman Theater in Chicago is bowing a new musical. And it's chiefly dependant on three names: Tommy Tune, Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice.
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Publishing News: Publication eyes former DirecTV chief -- Former DirecTV chief Eddy Hartenstein has in fact emerged as the front-runner for the publisher?s post at the Los Angeles Times, Tribune Co. insiders said.