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Unless you're J.K. Rowling or F. Scott Fitzgerald (at least before the booze really set in), the life of the writer is not particularly glamorous. Mostly it's sitting in a room, staring at a computer screen.
It's a grotesque coincidence. For seven years Victoria writer Steven Price pegged away at his debut novel, about a terrible earthquake that almost destroys our city. Then on March 11, about a week before Into That Darkness was published, Japan was hit by a record-setting earthquake, killing more than 13,000 people.
Past Imperfect, Present Tense -- By Derk Wynand
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Unfinished work leaves a lasting impression
The last time Michael Pietsch saw David Foster Wallace was at a dinner party, in Los Angeles, in the spring of 2008. Pietsch was visiting California for Book Expo America, the country's largest annual trade fair, and took the opportunity to arrange a meeting with Wallace, who rarely left the state. About a dozen people were present, including Bonnie Nadell, Wallace's literary agent; his wife, Karen Green; and the humourist David Sedaris, a longtime admirer of Wallace's writing. Pietsch, the publisher of Little, Brown, remembers it as "a lovely dinner, full of laughter."
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Capturing the moment
Can you stand reading another word about Charlie Sheen? OK. Lately, I've been wondering why we're so cruel to poor ol' Chas.
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David Sedaris has Montreal crowd rolling in the aisles
One of America’s funniest writers was in town Wednesday night to read from his work. And while a reading doesn’t sound so exciting on paper, David Sedaris had the crowd at Place des Arts’s Théâtre Maisonneuve rolling in the aisles.
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Robe Lowe considers himself a sex-tape ‘trailblazer’
NEW YORK — Hollywood star Rob Lowe is grateful for the leaked tape that showed him having sex with two women more than 20 years ago, and playfully wishes he could share in the profits of other celebrity sex videos.
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Quebec writer Louise Penny wins 4th straight Agatha Award
Bestselling Quebec writer Louise Penny was awarded her fourth straight Agatha Award Saturday night for her latest mystery novel, Bury Your Dead, the sixth book in her Inspector Gamache series.
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Writer Harper Lee denies taking part in memoir
American writer Harper Lee, who rose to fame a half-century ago with her first and only novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," denied Thursday that she had agreed to take part in a new biography about her life.
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How do you get teen boys to read? Girls, of course
"You want to get books in the hands of kids. You want them to read the next page, then the next chapter. You want to keep them reading," says young-adult fiction writer Don Calame.
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Bogart simply one of a kind
As a youth, the rebellious Humphrey Bogart suited the Edith Wharton landscape of his upper-class, early 1900s New York City upbringing about as much as a — well, a Warner Brothers gangster. At boarding school young Hump, as his buddies called him, got into fights and pretty much shrugged off lessons, although he excelled at chess.
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