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Sunday: I opened last week with Percy B. Shelley's Ozymandias, a poem about Louis B. Mayer, to try and get across the point that Rachel's, or Boobiac's, megalomaniacal power-crazedness last week was short-sighted, as her queendom would not endure. She didn't listen, and this week, the pendulum swung back out of her pit, and [...]

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Financial terms were not disclosed, but author royalties surely will be higher than the 25 percent usually offered by publishers for e-books. Agents and authors, citing the low production costs of electronic texts, have been asking for 50 percent. With the Internet enabling virtually anyone with a computer to become a publisher, Wylie had [...]

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Dick Armey's father, the operator of a North Dakota grain elevator, liked to fish with his son in Canada.
As they drove, the boy noticed painted barns “straight from a Norman Rockwell canvas.”
But at the border, as Armey writes in Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, the scenery changed:

The barns were unpainted. [...]

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The attempted revival of keyboard PCs may not have exactly caught on in a big way, but it looks like modder Bart Reardon is certainly a fan — so much so that he ripped apart a perfectly functional MacBook Air in an attempt to make his own. While he's not quite finished yet, he [...]

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Get the non-reptilian side of your brains in gear — it’s time to pick the Obamateurism of the Week.  We shouldn’t campaign all of the time to pick these, but then again, it seems like amateurish fumbles are all Obama knows to do.   After all, it’s no coincidence that the least-qualified President can’t avoid [...]

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Tonic:
Since the economic downturn in late 2008, the headlines about foreclosures and unemployment have become familiar and all too commonplace. What is less known is that the economy has fractured many families, separating parents and children. Now, a $20 million HUD grant hopes to reunite more than 5,000 homeless youngsters with their parents and [...]

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A look at great reads from the editor of the TLS. This week: the letters of British poet Louis MacNeice, a reconsideration of Elizabeth Barrett Browning as victim and symbol, and the Berkshire volume in the famous Pevsner series.
Louis MacNeice and His Friends

Selected Letters of Louis MacNeice Edited by Jonathan Allison 816 pages. [...]

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She was standing atop an escalator at Book Expo America, the publishing world's spring jamboree in New York, surveying a convention hall of sullen faces. Many of the 30,000 booksellers, publishers, authors and agents were looking like well-heeled passengers on a leaky cruise ship.
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Naturally, the popularity of e-books has a lot of people worried. Should this format take over as the dominant medium for books, publishers will be forced to re-examine their place in the world. And if publishers suffer, so do the writers. The problem is even more worrying for bookstores, which face redundancy with the [...]

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How To Get A Children's Book Published
Well, I haven't seen him mentioned in the comments yet, so I'll put in a plug for Joe Haldeman. He was a student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, then also taught at [...]