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How to Tell When a Reporter Plans to Flip the Script

ideagrove.com     yesterday          

I love journalists. I annoy my corporate clients when I tell them what I believe: that you'll hear more heartfelt discussion of ethical questions in a newsroom than you'll ever hear in a boardroom.Having stipulated all...                    

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Genius at work

normantranscript.com     Sep 3, 2008          

FISHTRAP HOLLOW, Miss. -- I watched a television show about Hemingway. They stretched his life over two episodes and nights, which barely contained all his wives and houses and wars.For a man who loved short sentences, in...                    

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Barry Michael Cooper: When the Levees Broke: Spike Lee's Sonogram of an American Stillbirth

huffingtonpost.com     Sep 2, 2008          

Both Truman Capote and Saint Teresa of Avila made copious notes on the tearful taxes that come with the cosmic payoff of answered prayers. Only thing, that "Abundant rain, torrential rain, urban and small stream flood...                    

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'Gossip Girl' not your typical teen soap

honoluluadvertiser.com     Sep 1, 2008   1 related          

With its impossibly good-looking cast, parade of candy-colored designer fashion and provocative ad campaigns, it's easy to dismiss the CW's "Gossip Girl" as just another sexed-up, youth-oriented product to step off the TV...                    

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Gaol goals

bbc.co.uk     Aug 29, 2008   1 related          

last year. The reading matter? "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, a near-obsessive examination of a notably brutal multiple murder. In particular, Capote scrutinises the societal and personal motivations underlying the...                    

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New Orleans Writers Museum Project Announced

prweb.com     Aug 28, 2008   3 related          

Today the Louisiana Writers Foundation announced plans to create a museum honoring writers who have lived in New Orleans that will also provide services to support those presently living and writing in the city. (PRWeb...                    

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Painter to Poet: Dorothea Tanning

mentalfloss.com     Aug 26, 2008          

American artist Dorothea Tanning celebrates her 98th birthday today, so in her honor and at the request of reader Peter, we’ll take a look at her life and artwork, particularly her 1942 self-portrait, “The Birthday.” 1....                    

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At writing camp, hopefuls get tips from legends

cnn.com     Aug 25, 2008   12 related          

It's billed as the oldest writers' conference in the nation, a gathering at a picturesque mountaintop retreat where literary giants, book editors and up-and-coming novelists have been coming together once a year since...                    

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Murder Ink: A Killer Collection

washingtonpost.com     Aug 25, 2008          

Monday, August 25, 2008; Page C01 TRUE CRIME An American Anthology Edited by Harold Schechter Library of America. 788 pp. $40 Murder, let's face it, is as American as cherry pie. Admirably edited by Harold Schechter, the...                    

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Books About Political Conventions

opinionjournal.com     Aug 23, 2008   12 related          

CBS's Jeff Greenfield casts his ballot for these classic convention accounts. Doris Kearns Goodwin chronicles Abe Lincoln's path to national stature, including his narrow 1858 Senate loss to Stephen Douglas and a speaking...                    

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