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By admin | Published: August 10, 2012

“You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: ‘Where are the readers?’” — the late great Gore Vidal in an interview with Esquire magazine. This summer, in addition to ferreting out new titles for the upcoming season (as a bookseller is wont to [...]

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Free e-Short Story from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

By admin | Published: July 29, 2012

Fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon will be familiar with the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a mysterious library at the center of his previous novels, The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game. This free e-short story, “Rose of fire,” is the story of the library’s origins, and it includes an excerpt from the author’s [...]

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Complete Short Stories by Elizabeth Taylor: review

By admin | Published: July 4, 2012

A common theme of a wife awaiting her commuter husband and the evening martini, mixed earlier each day, is not glossed over. Nor is the misery of children squirming under parental pressure, as the “sensitive” child in the previously unpublished “The little Girl” turns out to be a demonic catalyst for uproar. Through the early [...]

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Remembering Ray Bradbury and His ‘Cautionary Tales’

By admin | Published: July 3, 2012

JEFFREY BROWN: Ray Bradbury was a modern master who helped bring the genre of science fiction writing into the cultural mainstream. And it began as a young boy, with fairy tales. RAY BRADBURY, author: And I got a book of fairy tales when I was 5 years old. And I fell in love with reading [...]

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Reading For Leisure Aids Language Development

By admin | Published: June 21, 2012

Literacy is vital to language development. It seems pretty obvious, but it is something we may sometimes forget. Parents of kids who don’t like reading are passionate about getting them to read good books. A group of researchers at the University of Oregon recently investigated what older children and young adolescents actually like reading, and [...]

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Ian Williams wins $10K prize for debut story collection

By admin | Published: June 15, 2012

Toronto writer Ian Williams has won the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for his debut short story collection Not Anyone’s anything. The Writers’ Union of Canada named Williams the latest winner on Thursday. He divides his time between Toronto and Massachusetts, where he teaches at Fitchburg State University. “The writing in Not Anyone’s anything is [...]

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Fiction & Literature: An Interview with Russell Moore

By admin | Published: May 4, 2012

When I was in Louisville for Together for the Gospel I bumped into Russell Moore and had a few minutes to speak about reading fiction. I quickly saw that he has done a lot of thinking about fiction, about the morality and responsibility of reading it. I was eager to learn more and he was [...]

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Ann Hood: Knitting, grief and the power of story

By admin | Published: April 18, 2012

If Ann Hood had never learned to knit, she may never have been able to read and write again. She'd lost those talents after the sudden death of her 5-year-old daughter, Grace. for two years, this woman who'd built a life and livelihood around language was unable to make sense of it. she had written [...]

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Kate Beckinsale ‘obsessed with reading’

By admin | Published: April 13, 2012

Kate Beckinsale is happy that her daughter is a “huge reader.” The 38-year-old British actress has been an avid literary buff since youth. Kate feels that it is extremely important to impart the wonders of reading to her 13-year-old daughter Lily. “I’ve been very obsessed with reading since I was tiny,” Kate told Us Weekly [...]

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“Railreading” « Lionel LLC

By admin | Published: April 3, 2012

March is National Reading Month, and from bed-time stories to thrilling novels there is no mistaking the role trains have played in the literary scene. as railroads spread across America and the world in the 1800s, they captured the imagination and interest of the people they served. the trains, rails and workers took on an [...]

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