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Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: 11 hours 19 minutes ago Duncan Hamilton has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for the second time in three years More Source: www.independent.co.uk Date: Nov 26, 2009 Republican former governor Sarah Palin's memoir "Going Rogue" shot to the top of the US bestseller list in its first week after publication, industry figures showed Wednesday. More Source: www.charlotteobserver.com Date: Nov 25, 2009 Gene Dattel grew up in the segregated South and was one of the few Mississippians enrolled at Yale University in 1962 when his home state became ensnared in a bloody confrontation over integration. More Source: www.philly.com Date: Nov 25, 2009 I wanted to write poems of religious devotion in a less obvious and, I hope, more humble way - one people might more easily identify with, says poet Franz Wright, and right from the beginning, one senses a departure from his earlier collections. More Source: www.usatoday.com Date: Nov 25, 2009 We live in an age of memoir, says Ben Yagoda, who traces their development in his new book, Memoir: A History. Yagoda names the five greatest memoirs you've probably never heard of :... More Source: www.bostonherald.com Date: Nov 24, 2009 "American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia" (Sarah Crichton Books, 448 pages, $28), by Joan Biskupic: The last time veteran... More Source: www.routledge.com Date: Nov 23, 2009 Tales of the Orient By LLoyd Llewellyn-Jones, James Robson Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the More Source: www.sfgate.com Date: Nov 22, 2009 Raymond Carver A Writer's Life By Carol Sklenicka (Scribner; 578 pages; $35) Raymond Carver's life, as related in the exhaustive and definitive new biography by Carol Sklenicka, reads like a Raymond Carver story. That isn't merely a facile observation about a...<br clear="both" More Source: www.kansas.com Date: Nov 22, 2009 "High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly" by Donald Spoto (Harmony Books, 303 pages, $25.99) More Source: www.washingtonpost.com Date: Nov 22, 2009 In this readable,almost wistful memoir,Sir Harold Evans remains the rare self-made Englishman who changed British journalism. More Source: www.post-gazette.com Date: Nov 22, 2009 Franklin Roosevelt probably engendered more words about his career than any other 20th-century president, but I wager Woodrow Wilson isn't far behind. More Source: www.chelseagreen.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 Congratulations, James McCommons! Library Journal just named your book, Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service—A Year Spent Riding Across America, one of the best books of 2009. Waiting on a Train is not only a beautifully written and thoroughly engrossing More Source: www.prlog.org Date: Nov 21, 2009 "Give This Book to Any Struggling Young Person You Love-". This gripping memoir is capturing readers minds and appealing to their hearts. Knox is an unsung author who deserves to hit the high notes in the media. This book deserves attention. More Source: www.mercurynews.com Date: Nov 21, 2009 We are pleased to let readers post comments about an article. Please increase the credibility of your post by including your full name and city in the body of your comment. More Source: www.denverpost.com Date: Nov 20, 2009 Readers can be forgiven for feeling a bit confused. Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," was published Tuesday, right? Yes. So what are all these other Palin books that are garnering so much attention? More Source: www.beaconbroadside.com Date: Nov 20, 2009 Today's post is from Danielle Ofri, writer and practicing internist at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. She is the editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Her newest book is Medicine in Translation: Journeys with my Patients. This post originally appeared... More Source: www.blackbookmag.com Date: Nov 19, 2009 Cellphones can put screenwriters in a bind when it comes to horror and suspense. No sooner does Jason Voorhees dismember one measly kid than fourteen others have simultaneously called the cops and Twittered about their still-in-progress near-death experience. Since no one thus armed is ever truly More Source: www.columbiatribune.com Date: Nov 19, 2009 Darold Dewayne Pruitts history with Columbia and Boone County law enforcement officers picked up a new entry Wednesday night with Pruitts arrest in the Rock Bridge Estates subdivision. More Source: www.mediabistro.com Date: Nov 19, 2009 Jobs and recruiting for media professionals in journalism, on-line content, book publishing, TV, radio, PR, graphic design, photography, and advertising More Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Date: Nov 19, 2009 From Peter Kay to Andy Williams, Mark Sanderson selects the best of the season's celebrity memoirs More Previous | Next
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