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After reading "Tomato Girl," I wanted to call my parents and say: Dad, thanks for not sedating Mom with tranquilizer shots meant for horses. Mom, thanks for never asking me to comfort a dead baby preserved in a jar. Pupek's writing smacks the senses ...

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Book briefs - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Connie Meester, mother of Gossip Girl 's Leighton, is writing a memoir, according to E! The book will reportedly include details of Leighton's birth while Connie was doing time for drug-related crimes, as first reported by Star magazine on Tuesday ...

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Gossip Girl Star's Mom Is Writing a Memoir - TV Guide Online

NEW YORK — Robert Giroux, a giant of 20th Century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag , died in his sleep early Friday. He was 94. Mr. Giroux, who helped ...

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Book publisher known for taste, discretion - Chicago Tribune

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper triggered a widely expected federal election campaign this morning, framing the vote set for Oct. 14 as a choice about who is best suited to lead Canada while the global economy stumbles. Mr. Harper defended his ...

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Jeffrey Simpson on the Oct. 14 election - Globe and Mail

Steamboat Springs — When Edward Irving Wortis began speaking in front of about 200 students at Strawberry Park Elementary School, very few students probably knew his real name. But when it comes to his books, they can almost recite them by heart ...

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Children’s writing icon visits Strawberry Park - Steamboat Pilot & Today

An American writer who discovered that a draft of her latest book was leaked on the Internet decided to stop writing, although the first 12 chapters of it were ready for editing and publishing. Stephenie Meyer, author of the vampire novels “The ...

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Author Stops Writing after Manuscript Leaks on the Net - Softpedia

Carla Katz, a union leader and former girlfriend to Gov. Jon Corzine, is in talks with editors about writing a book about power, according to a report in the New York Post.

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Carla Katz is reportedly working on a book about power - Newark Star-Ledger

NEW YORK — Three fiction writers, a poet and two essayists have been named recipients of the 14th annual Rona Jaffe Foundation's awards, grants of $25,000 each for "women writers of talent and promise in the early stages of their writing careers ...

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Bainbridge Island writer wins honor - Seattle Times

BOOKISH BABES: Siofra O'Connor and Amy Cowley Everyone's motivation for wanting to be an author varies greatly. For some it's for fun, others fame, then there's the pervasive lure of fortune. Whatever your reason, if you have been thinking of penning ...

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The secrets of penning a bestseller shared at last - Independent

The green foliage of spring was just starting to appear along the Danube River when the high-explosive incendiary bombs began to fall. For nearly a week, German bombers flew more than 500 sorties over Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in what the Nazis dubbed ...

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