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Meeting Charles Chahwan, the Arab World's Answer to Bukowski | VICE | United States

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Meeting Charles Chahwan, the Arab World's Answer to Bukowski | VICE | United States

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[body_image width='1000' height='667' path='images/content-images/2015/03/04/' crop='images/content-images-crops/2015/03/04/' filename='charles-chahwan-lebanese-bukowski-203-body-image-1425501574.jpg' id='33073'] Charles Chahwan sitting in front of his bookshelf Wearing thick-rimmed glasses, a hoody, and a leather jacket, his head framed by a chaotic tumbleweed of... [ ]

What are your fiction novels/novel series that you believe are the best example of their genre/sub genre? • /r/books

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What are your fiction novels/novel series that you believe are the best example of their genre/sub genre? • /r/books

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Whether you prefer SciFi to Fantasy, Historical to Folklore, or Mystery to Crime which book or book series did you feel was the gold standard of... [ ]

Amazon.com: Adversaries Together (Ascendant Realms Book 1) eBook: Daniel Casey: Kindle Store

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Amazon.com: Adversaries Together (Ascendant Realms Book 1) eBook: Daniel Casey: Kindle Store

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Adversaries Together (Ascendant Realms Book 1) - Kindle edition by Daniel Casey. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and... [ ]

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A 1979 Ford Falcon Converted into a Tank Armored with 900 Free Books

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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A 1979 Ford Falcon Converted into a Tank Armored with 900 Free Books

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In celebration of World Book Day (today!) 7UP commissioned Argentinian artist Raul Lemesoff to construct one of his famous book tanks. In this case he began with a stripped down 1979 Ford Falcon... [ ]

How To Avoid Publishing Predators

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How To Avoid Publishing Predators

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Guest Post by David Gaughran I have been campaigning against exploitative services like Author Solutions for a few years now, and it’s clear that the business model of such predators is to target... [ ]

What Wittgenstein Learned from Teaching Elementary School

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What Wittgenstein Learned from Teaching Elementary School

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In the 1920s, the philosopher decamped to the mountains of Austria, where he taught schoolchildren—and they taught him. [ ]

Should Shakespeare be censored?

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Should Shakespeare be censored?

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His plays contain anti-Semitism, racism and sexism, sexual abuse and violence. Does it matter? [ ]

The 1906 Novel That Imagined Present-Day New York - The New Yorker

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The 1906 Novel That Imagined Present-Day New York - The New Yorker

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Van Tassel Sutphen’s forgotten post-apocalyptic novel, “The Doomsman,” is like “Escape From New York,” but with crossbows. It’s set in 2015. [ ]

INTERVIEW: Mark Doten, author of The Infernal

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INTERVIEW: Mark Doten, author of The Infernal

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Last month, Graywolf Press released Mark Doten's debut novel, The Infernal.  A critic for the New York Times Book Review called it "the most audaciously imaginative political novel I’ve ever read."... [ ]

Harper Lee tells inquisitive journalist to 'go away!'

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Harper Lee tells inquisitive journalist to 'go away!'

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To Kill a Mockingbird author sends written rebuff to reporter inquiring about forthcoming sequel Go Set a Watchman [ ]

'Frozen is not a book!' Elsa costumes take over World Book Day

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'Frozen is not a book!' Elsa costumes take over World Book Day

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Annoyance as children flock to World Book Day dressed as Disney's record-breaking princesses (and Darth Vader) [ ]

Kazuo Ishiguro thinks his fantasy novel is not a fantasy novel. Are we bothered?

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Kazuo Ishiguro thinks his fantasy novel is not a fantasy novel. Are we bothered?

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Ursula K Le Guin has hit back on behalf of SFF – but so long as people read The Buried Giant, it’s actually a welcome opportunity to dismantle the walls built around different... [ ]

Foreign-Service Rules For Handling a Visit From William Faulkner 

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Foreign-Service Rules For Handling a Visit From William Faulkner 

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Although at first he didn’t even want to go to Stockholm to collect his 1950 Nobel Prize—his farm wasn’t going to take care of itself!— William Faulkner became one of America’s most important Cold... [ ]

Bruce Willis joins Broadway's Misery

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Bruce Willis joins Broadway's Misery

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Bruce Willis will make his Broadway debut in a stage adaptation of Stephen King novel Misery. [ ]

What's one of your favorite books that you've never seen mentioned on this subreddit? • /r/books

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What's one of your favorite books that you've never seen mentioned on this subreddit? • /r/books

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I see a lot of the same titles mentioned here frequently. I'd love to hear some of your under-appreciated favorites! [ ]

Which supposedly shocking book didn't shock you? • /r/books

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Which supposedly shocking book didn't shock you? • /r/books

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Let's talk about the letdowns. [ ]

Do you prefer Oxford Worlds Classics or Penguin Classics editions? • /r/books

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Do you prefer Oxford Worlds Classics or Penguin Classics editions? • /r/books

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It's World Book Day, so what is the book that's most changed your life? • /r/books

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It's World Book Day, so what is the book that's most changed your life? • /r/books

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Buy instagram followers | Cheap Social Media

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Buy Instagram Followers Over the past few years Instagram has become a massively popular place to share photos with friends and followers. [ ]

A Review of JP Sloan's "The Curse Servant" • /r/books

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A Review of JP Sloan's "The Curse Servant" • /r/books

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Title: The Curse Servant Author: JP Sloan Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press Release Date: February 26, 2015 Cover... [ ]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Metabook™

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Metabook™

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Get Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Metabook™ on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews. [ ]

Working Days: John Steinbeck, the Art of Discipline, and the Diary as a Pacemaker for the Heartbeat of Creative Work

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Working Days: John Steinbeck, the Art of Discipline, and the Diary as a Pacemaker for the Heartbeat of Creative Work

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“Just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.” Many celebrated writers have championed the creative... [ ]

The Great 2015 Indie Press Cheat Sheet

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The Great 2015 Indie Press Cheat Sheet

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I find myself overwhelmed yet excited about the year ahead, one that is sure to be timestamped by an amazing offering from the world of indie press, and there’s this insane idea too,... [ ]

Aziz Ansari on His New Book and How Texting Is Ruining Our Relationships

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Aziz Ansari on His New Book and How Texting Is Ruining Our Relationships

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The series finale of Parks and Recreation aired just a week ago, but comedian Aziz Ansari is already busy with new projects. His second Netflix stand-up comedy special, Aziz Ansari: Live at... [ ]

How To Tell If You Are In A Virginia Woolf Novel

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How To Tell If You Are In A Virginia Woolf Novel

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Do you think you might be in a Virginia Woolf novel? Let us help. [ ]

The Great 2015 Indie Press Preview

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The Great 2015 Indie Press Preview

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I find myself overwhelmed yet excited about the year ahead, one that is sure to be timestamped by an amazing offering from the world of indie press, and there’s this insane idea too,... [ ]

Ursula K. Le Guin slams new Kazuo Ishiguro novel

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Ursula K. Le Guin slams new Kazuo Ishiguro novel

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Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel "The Buried Giant" has so far garnered mixed reactions from critics, with some praising  the author for his foray into fantasy, and others finding  the result "misbegotten." In a... [ ]

Douglas Adams made me a writer: Neil Gaiman salutes his friend and inspiration

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Douglas Adams made me a writer: Neil Gaiman salutes his friend and inspiration

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Paying tribute to his genius at the annual Douglas Adams lecture, writer explains how meeting the Hitchhiker’s Guide author at 22 changed his life [ ]

The Buried Giant review – Kazuo Ishiguro ventures into Tolkien territory

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The Buried Giant review – Kazuo Ishiguro ventures into Tolkien territory

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The Booker-winner’s excursion through Britain’s mythical past is a rumination on memory, love and war worthy of a place among the greats [ ]

If you could choose one book to be a family heriloom, which one would it be ? • /r/books

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If you could choose one book to be a family heriloom, which one would it be ? • /r/books

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Personally, i choose my mother's leatherbound edition of Dante's Inferno. My father bought it for her on their first date. [ ]