Tag: writing
group name: mnreaders
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June 15, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
I wrote this article specifically for a new group called Minnesota Readers but am posting it to everyone at Gather as I'm currently engaged in a publicity tour for my new book, The Scent of God. . . .
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August 08, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
I've struggled with the notion of "writerhood" for years. I remember as a child, it was the only thing I wanted to be when I grew up. I was totally absorbed by books, spent entire summers . . .
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August 25, 2006 12:18 PM EDT --
I"m right now reading a book titled "What Good are the Arts?" by John Carey, the chief book reviewer of The Sunday Times in London. In it, Carey takes a pretty bold stance that can be summed . . .
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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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September 14, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Chat transcript follows.
Although you may have missed the chat, Robert Goolrick notes you can email him directly. "At inquiry@algonquin.com - they'll forward it to me."
MPR's Midmorning . . .
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February 13, 2007 01:33 PM EST --
Sunday night in a small coffee house in what the Twin Cities people call “Greater Minnesota,” a group of approximately 100 people crowded around a small stage to listen to poet Robert . . .
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November 02, 2006 12:47 AM EST --
Election Day is soon upon us putting into even sharper view the small avalanche of political or world events books that are invariably released at this time. I can't quite manage a single one though . . .
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January 10, 2007 04:05 PM EST --
Who doesn't wonder if their writing could make the leap from the Internet to print? I read so many articles on Gather and around the Web that nearly vibrate with vitality, and I wonder how these authors . . .
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July 21, 2009 10:43 AM EDT --
This morning in the 10 o'clock hour of Midmorning, Kerri Miller talks with James Levine, MD, a Mayo Clinic doctor and obesity researcher, about his new novel "The Blue Notebook," the story of a young . . .
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March 13, 2008 07:50 PM EDT --
In The Art of Subtext , Minneapolis novelist Charles Baxter has gone well beyond other books on the writing of prose fiction. Baxter believes that fictional techniques work when they are rooted in basic . . .
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December 20, 2006 03:13 PM EST --
I favor mysteries for light reading – Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters), Adam Dalgleish (PD James), Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy Sayers) and, of course, Agatha Christie and Dick Francis. But . . .
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February 14, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
February 14, 2007
Listen to feature audio
It's safe to say not many of us have ever heard of writer Joseph Kalar. He was a contemporary of . . .
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October 11, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
A year ago I met a couple of the members of the Brainerd Writers' Alliance, and I was pleased when they invited me to be one of the judges in their annual contest and to offer a workshop prior to this . . .
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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 11, 2006 12:24 PM EDT --
Indian writer Kiran Desai, who at the age of 35 has become the youngest woman ever to win Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, Wednesday recalled her parent's efforts . . .
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May 03, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
The jury seems conflicted on this. I put my heart and soul into my novel, carried my characters in the pockets of my brain for years. As my manuscript sits in a file, I miss them. I wrote the novel online-- . . .
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July 07, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Hello all,
So my book Practically Posh was just released and is already sweeping the nation, or at least my office, literally.
Yesterday, Marissa, a co-producer on the station, was . . .
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October 23, 2006 11:53 AM EDT --
Author, Bruce Henricksen, is another Duluth Life member on the Amazon team. He is listed in Amazon's Authors Directory, has a blog at Amazon Connect, and his story collection, "Ticket to . . .
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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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October 17, 2006 02:40 PM EDT --
Anyone else here sick of this untalented maudlin writer's treacly book being hawked all over the margins of Gather? His writing is as cloying as a Hallmark commericial and to boot he was busted for . . .
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