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Larry McMurtry on 'Books,' life, computers, more
09.07.2008 22:21
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Before Larry McMurtry became a screenwriter (Brokeback Mountain) and novelist (Lonesome Dove), he was a book scout, tracking ...
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Book buzz: Second-quarter report promising for Pausch
09.07.2008 22:21
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Two self-help titles The Last Lecture and Oprah pick A New Earth were the top sellers on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list ...
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Three debut novels stir up Salem's dark magic
09.07.2008 22:21
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Something witchy is brewing in bookstores this summer. Three debut novels share a link to Salem, Mass., site of the infamous ...
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'Cost' of addiction is realistic, unexpected
09.07.2008 22:21
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For a minute there, Roxana Robinson's Cost reads like a predictable, if affecting, Ron Howard movie script. But she proves that ...
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Audiobooks Roundup: Serial 'Chopin,' golf's 'Montague,' ladies' 'Gift'
09.07.2008 22:21
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Give a listen to audiobooks Chopin Manuscript, Mysterious Montague and The Tenth Gift. But David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed ...
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Why a glued-shoed rhino? It's in the book!
09.07.2008 22:21
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Lots of people (including yours truly) hate zoos. They find them profoundly depressing. Animals trapped in cages and all that. ...
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The new dish on Doris Day
09.07.2008 22:20
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She was Hollywood's eternal virgin, the perky co-star with Rock Hudson of wholesome post-World War II comedies. But the new book ...
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Cajun Dance Party - Colourful Life
09.07.2008 17:16
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Forget the clouds outside. Listen to Cajun Dance Party's new single and remember better times. Colourful times.
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Leila - Mettle
09.07.2008 17:16
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First single from Leila’s forthcoming ‘Blood Looms and Blooms’ proves its worth
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Blakes - The Blakes
09.07.2008 17:16
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From old school rock n roll to experimental all in under six minutes from The Blakes
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Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me
09.07.2008 17:16
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The Last Shadow Puppets may be 40 years late but catchy romantic songs like this never grow tiresome.
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Life is one big romp for 'Jungle Jack' Hanna
09.07.2008 13:28
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Jack Hanna released his eighth book in June, and in September, he expects to release another children's book and an autobiography.
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Living With a Material Girl: Memoir says Madonna's true love is Madonna
09.07.2008 13:28
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A memoir by Madonna's brother says the singer really does love her husband, director Guy Ritchie, but, apparently, not as much ...
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Not My Fault · John Lanchester: New Labour's Terrible Memoirs
09.07.2008 07:21
lrb.co.uk
New Labour's exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer; and now memoirs by the former prime minister's wife, his deputy and his bagman. The granddaddy of them all, Blair's own memoirs, are still to come. It is an unprecedented cascade of memoirs by prominent figures in a government which is, let's not forget, still in power. The phenomenon seemed odd when it began - Lance Price was called in front of a Parliamentary committee in December 2005 to account for his temerity in publishing his insider's account. By now we're used to it, and it's getting to the point where it would be more surprising for a New Labour insider not to publish a book explaining how he/she was both a. more at the centre of things than anybody had hitherto suspected while also b. not to blame for any of the stuff that went wrong.
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Men in White · Benjamin Kunkel: Another Ian McEwan!
09.07.2008 07:21
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'Netherland' is an ambiguous word. It evokes, of course, the Netherlands inhabited by the Dutch, one of whom, Hans van den Broek, tells this story of a few late years spent in that New World city founded almost four hundred years ago on Manhattan Island as New Amsterdam, in what was then the territory of New Netherland. But 'netherland' could also mean any faraway place, as in those 'nether regions' of the city where Hans's teammates from the Staten Island Cricket Club spend their nights. (Hans spends his nights in Chelsea, a Manhattan neighbourhood hardly described in this book, notable for a high concentration of well-built gay men, new condominiums, art galleries, bank branches and large home-furnishing outlets.) 'Netherland' also has sinister overtones of Never Never Land, and sounds like a euphemism for Hades.
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