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Madefire: A Startup Transforming Reading and How We Make Books
In Los Angeles, we hear a lot about storytellers. And that almost everything is story – a film, a song, even a brand’s legacy. But, not counting oral tradition, the original story was the book. Reading was an original form of entertainment, especially as mass printing became widely available. Madefire, a startup in Berkeley, California, and with a business development base in Los Angeles, aims to change the way people think of reading.
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Google Doodle Celebrates John Steinbeck's 112th Birthday
The author would have been 112
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Literary Tourism: Iceland
'I live in the land of books. Also of mountains and prettiness, but mostly books. More books are published per person in Iceland than anywhere else (about 5 per 1000 people). The culture is deeply bookish, and the question “read anything good lately?” a perfectly normal conversation starter at the dinner parties. Here are a few …'
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Aldous Huxley v George Orwell: Which British writer is the most influential?
Two writers enter, one writer leaves! Well, not literally – especially in this case, given our aversion to exhumation and necromancy. We’re less interested in post-mortem fisticuffs and more concerned with some high falutin’ comparing and contrasting.
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Book Review: The Personal MBA A Must-Read For Non-Business People
If you’re a non-business person, then at some point in your career you’ve realized the value of having some sort of business training or background. Josh Kaufman, the author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, agrees.
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Kickstarter Fail: Artist Raises $51K to Publish Books, Burns Them in Alley
Wicker Park artist John Campbell said he ran out of money to ship books to donors, so he torched them.
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How to Read A Book A Week
Yep, I finally did it. I read over a book a week all of the past year. More than that -- I never fell behind or stopped. I was always ahead of schedule for the entire year. So now, this coming year, guess what? I'd like you to do the same. Here's how...
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Get high on sci-fi: 10 short story collections that will blow your mind
We’re huge short story fans around this way, but while we definitely foster great big loves for the likes of Alice Munro and V.S. Pritchett, we also very much dig the science-fiction greats. We reckon newcomers to the sci-fi field might get the impression it’s dominated by novels or series of novels, but that’s not really the case: excellent science-fiction short stories abound
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'I Don't Believe in Writer's Block'
John Steinbeck’s To a God Unknown showed author Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski that great work can happen when you write without knowing where you're going.
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The top 100 books that Amazon.com doesn’t think you should read (Part 1)
As you might have guessed, the title is slightly inaccurate. Amazon.com actually would love you to read every book in the world, as long as you buy them there. But Amazon did publish a list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: “A bucket list of books to create a well-read life, from the Amazon Book Editors”. And that list did leave off a lot of very important books that some people would be upset to see missing.
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How Mark Twain became Mark Twain: The amazing story of the lectures that made him a superstar
He was broke, tired of being a freelancer and bored in California. One trip and some lectures changed everything
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10 Western novels everyone should read
Forget your cowboy movie blockbusters and your local barn-dance knees-up; if you want to get seriously down and dusty with the Wild West, grab yourself a paperback. The Western novel might be a genre currently our of favour but it has a long and illustrious history.
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The top 100 books that Amazon.com doesn’t think you should read (Part 2)
Amazon's “100 Books to Read in a Lifetime” missed some important authors and some amazing books. This is our list of books that really should be added. Last week we looked at the list of 100 Books ...
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10 Of The Most Bizarre Books Ever Written
If literary history teaches us one thing, it’s that people were just as confused and immature in the Middle Ages as they are now. From unsolvable codes to 13th-century penis doodles in the margins of bibles, history is like an all-encompassing high school cliche that never comes to an end. These books span the course of written history, and they’re all utterly bizarre.
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Can Galactic Empires Exist Without Faster-Than-Light Travel?
My newest science fiction novel, Lockstep, was recently serialized in Analog magazine. Reactions have been pretty favourable — except that I've managed to offend a small but vocal group of readers. They're outraged that I've written an SF story in which faster than light travel is impossible.
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During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union
A secret package arrived at CIA headquarters in January 1958. Inside were two rolls of film from British intelligence — pictures of the pages of a Russian-language novel titled “Doctor Zhivago.” The book, by poet Boris Pasternak, had been banned from publication in the Soviet Union. The British were suggesting that the CIA get copies of the novel behind the Iron Curtain. The idea immediately gained traction in Washington.
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Goodwill processes millions of pounds of books annually
Goodwill sells used books and other media on its website.
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Stop Comparing the NSA to 1984 (and Start Comparing It to Philip K. Dick)
As any intelligence operative knows, isolated facts don't tell you much. If some random person mentions a bomb somewhere on the Internet, is that a threat? A joke? A mistake? To understand data you need a context and a narrative. You need to be able to put it in a story.
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Would Shakespeare’s poisons and drugs work in reality?
Can a potion make you fall in love? Can you poison someone through their ear? Scientists have tried to uncover the facts behind the Bard's fiction.
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World's Best-Selling Author James Patterson On How To Write An Unputdownable Story
James Patterson's books account for one out of every 17 hardcover novels purchased in the United States. The wildly prolific and popular author talks...
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