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July 02, 2008 03:37 PM EDT --
From now through December, Midmorning will look at six key debates that define America using Howard Fineman's book "The Thirteen American Arguments" as our guide.
You can learn . . .
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July 31, 2009 06:42 AM EDT --
NPR recently featured Michael Kimball as a writer who can fir your life on a postcard ( story link ). The whole process of writing developed by Kimballs is just wonderful. I was surprised . . .
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May 18, 2007 04:06 PM EDT --
Yesterday I went to the Duluth Art Institute for the opening reception of an exhibit of paintings by Ann Jenkins. Glorious, wonderful paintings.
But I also got to talk . . .
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July 13, 2007 06:48 PM EDT --
Dr. Julius Wolff, a noted expert on Lake Superior shipwrecks, died today.
Wolff was a popular speaker and the author of "Shipwrecks of Lake Superior," published by Lake Superior . . .
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November 26, 2007 03:49 PM EST --
When I began to tell members of that large, raucous generation born just after World War II, the baby boomers, that I was thinking of writing a book on the aftershocks of . . .
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December 11, 2007 11:12 AM EST --
President Kennedy also passed through Omaha, but only . . .
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October 27, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
I've run into a lot of books lately from out there in public-radio-land that hit home with what it is that any one of us believes. Big thoughtful notions looming - so if you're at all in a ruminating . . .
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October 09, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --
From now through December, Midmorning will look at six key debates that define America using Howard Fineman's book "The Thirteen American Arguments" as our guide.
You can learn . . .
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January 09, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
Here are the writing resolutions I had for 2007:
(copied from old journal)
1. I resolve to earn more money per hour, thereby increasing my take-home pay and eventually becoming financially self-sufficient. . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:51 PM EDT --
If you've been reading my posts for a while, you'll know that I've been awaiting a "writer's dream." No. It's not making the NY Times best seller list. This dream concerns . . .
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October 11, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
In what came as a surprise to many information markets the Swedish Academy has awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature to British author Doris Lessing. The Academy called Lessing "an epicist of . . .
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October 03, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
With its release in suspended animation in the UK, The Jewel of Medina is being rushed to shelves in the United States by publisher Beaufort Books.
The UK publishing house Gibson Square . . .
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October 12, 2006 10:49 AM EDT --
Turkey's best-known novelist Orhan Pamuk, who faced trial this year for insulting his country, won the 2006 Nobel prize for Literature on Thursday.
"In the quest for the melancholic . . .
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December 03, 2006 05:29 PM EST --
I thought I’d completed the process of writing a book when my memoir, The Scent of God , was published by Counterpoint, NY, this April. I didn’t realize that the most arduous part of authorship . . .
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October 28, 2006 04:41 AM EDT --
Award-winning romance novelist Margaret Kaine was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. She worked as a lecturer at further education colleges, re-training women to begin new office . . .
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August 12, 2006 12:40 PM EDT --
Remember that old Christmas song about Santa making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty and nice. Well I'm not Santa but that's just what I've been doing. I've . . .
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November 04, 2009 06:49 PM EST --
Having studied an extensive variety of archived documents, including the Adams Family Correspondence housed at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Woody Holton delivers an elegant account of American . . .
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April 21, 2009 10:12 AM EDT --
Just sending an update to yesterday's post. Hooray for Dr. Hawking!
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October 28, 2006 06:33 AM EDT --
Welsh author Rachel Trezise has won the inaugural EDS Dylan Thomas prize for her collection of short stories, Fresh Apples.
Lucy Caldwell; Ian Holding; Nick Laird; James Scudamore and Liza Ward had all . . .
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May 12, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
Friday, May 11: The second stop on my book tour takes us to beloved Gather blogger Kathryn Esplin Oleski. I first met Kathryn on Gather in its very early days when there were only several hundred of us . . .
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