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  • October 2008

    • Rodanthe Author Still Loves Himself

      Entertainment Weekly  |  Oct 3, 08 7:11 PM CDT

      Rodanthe Author Still Loves Himself

      (Newser) - Nicholas Sparks may run low on creative gas, but that only lasts for a minute or two. The multimillionaire author of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe works out for nearly 3 hours a day before writing 2,000 words and coaching track at his son's school. ''I'm efficient," he smiles. And he's confident enough to compare himself to Shakespeare—which may be why he bristles at the tag of "romance writer." More »

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      author  • writer  • novelist  • Nicholas Sparks

  • September 2008

    • Wallace Kept Up 'Debate Inside His Head'

      Salon  |  Sep 14, 08 7:42 PM CDT

      Wallace Kept Up 'Debate Inside His Head'

      (Newser) - David Foster Wallace was remembered today as a complex novelist who engaged in layer upon layer of self-examination. The author of Infinite Jest "wrote about the maddening impossibility of scrutinizing yourself without also scrutinizing yourself scrutinizing yourself and so on," Laura Miller writes in Salon. Wallace's suicide remains a mystery, "but any reader can see how his fiction had, in recent years, moved into greater darkness." More »

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      writer  • novelist  • David Foster Wallace

  • August 2008

    • Aspiring Novelist? Read This

      Boston Globe  |  Aug 11, 08 2:15 PM CDT

      Aspiring Novelist? Read This

      (Newser) - “I’ve always wanted to write” is something novelist Allegra Goodman hears a lot, so she lays out some advice in the Boston Globe for the doctors, venture capitalists, and lactation consultants with stories to tell: “To begin, don’t write about yourself.” Writing is about imagining and understanding other people’s lives. Observe people and “replay their conversation in your mind.” More »

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      literature  • writer  • novel  • novelist  • creative writing

  • May 2008

    • New Bond Hits Bookstores

      AFP  |  May 27, 08 1:26 PM CDT

      New Bond Hits Bookstores

      (Newser) - A new James Bond novel will hit bookstores tomorrow, marking what would have been the 100th birthday of creator Ian Fleming, AFP reports. Details of the new thriller, Devil May Care , have been kept secret, but author Sebastian Faulks—given a license to write Bond books by the Fleming estate—says the new 007 novel "is in the spirit of the original and very funny." More »

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      publishing  • James Bond  • novel  • novelist  • Sebastian Faulks  • Ian Fleming

  • February 2008

    • Politics More Than Plot Twist for Roth

      Der Spiegel  |  Feb 13, 08 6:21 PM CST

      Politics More Than Plot Twist for Roth

      (Newser) - Never afraid to find narrative fodder in real life, Philip Roth used the 2004 presidential elections as backdrop for his latest novel, Exit Ghost . The Pulitzer winner expounded on his politics in a lengthy interview with Der Spiegel , admitting he's a fan of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and calling the White House's current resident "too horrendous to be forgotten." More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • book  • Barack Obama supporters  • novelist  • Philip Roth

  • January 2008

    • George MacDonald Fraser Dead

      NPR  |  Jan 3, 08 8:00 PM CST

      George MacDonald Fraser Dead

      (Newser) - George MacDonald Fraser, the creator of the Flashman series of of historical novels, died yesterday at age 82.  Fraser's widely read and beloved series of 12 novels featured a lovable, cowardly cad named Harry Flashman, first created as a minor character in the classic 19th century English novel, "Tom Brown's Schooldays."  More »

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      Great Britain  • obituary  • novelist

  • August 2007

    • Murder, He Wrote: Novelist Faces Prison

      Times (UK)  |  Aug 9, 07 9:50 AM CDT

      Murder, He Wrote: Novelist Faces Prison

      (Newser) - A Polish author is on trial for allegedly committing the murder upon which he based his best-selling novel. A jury is currently deliberating the case of Krystian Bala, whose grisly novel Amok fictionalized a famous unsolved murder, the Times of London reports. Prosecutors maintain that the book contains details that only the victim's killer could know. More »

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      murder  • book  • trial  • Poland  • author  • novelist  • Krystian Bala  • Amok

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