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High School Senior Celine Nguyen’s Week One NaNoWriMo Recap 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
This is high school senior Celine Nguyen’s fourth year to participate in National Novel Writing Month. Here’s her week one recap: The first week of NaNoWriMo is deceptively full of promise. I keep on...
Brenda Mantz talks NaNoWriMo and revenge and gives a sneak peek at her work in progress 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
As you know, we’re following three writers participating in National Novel Writing Month and asking them to keep us apprised of their progress. Here’s a Week One recap from Brenda Mantz: During the t...
Shelf Unbound indie book review magazine’s Top 10 Books of 2010 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
Amid all the discussions this year about ways of reading books — Kindle? Nook? iPad? print? — one thing is for sure: The quality and variety of new books available for us all to read this year has bee...
Thankful for Small Presses 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
It’s been a big year for small presses. Bellevue Press published Paul Harding’s Tinkers, and it won the Pulitzer. Two books on the Booker shortlist were from small presses, as were two Orange Prize fi...
Granta’s new Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists collection 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
In the October issue of Shelf Unbound indie book review magazine, we featured The Private Lives of Trees by Chilean Alejandro Zambra, translated into English by Megan McDowell. “Zambra in English is a...
Yes, Virginia, Books Change Lives 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
In the 1960s, Random House published a series of pop-up books that were particularly enchanting for those of us just learning to read. My grandparents gave me a copy of Pop Up The Night Before Christm...
#fridayreads: my favorite concatenated micro-meme 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
The Wikipedia article on hash tags clued me in to micro-memes and had me looking up the word “concatenated.” My favorite concatenated micro-meme? #fridayreads. Every Friday, thousands of people post w...
NaNoWriMo Progress Report from EJ James 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
National Novel Writing Month participant EJ James shares her Week One experience: My first week has been a bit of an eye opener for me. I’ve never really written so quickly without editing before and...
Calling all NaNoWriMo’s! 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
We’re following three NaNoWriMo writers this month — Brenda Mantz, Celine Nguyen, and EJ James — see their progress in our earlier blogs. We’d like to know what everyone’s midpoint word count is — jus...
Crossing the NaNoWriMo finish line 30 Nov -0001 | 12:00 am
This month we’ve been following the progress of three participants in National Novel Writing Month, and I am happy to report that the first of them has made it across the 50,000-word goal line. Despit...
