tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62557982024-03-13T01:36:53.427-06:00American Society of Authors and WritersGiving Writers What They Need, When They Need ItD. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-156391623661615592012-05-10T13:03:00.001-06:002012-05-10T13:07:48.411-06:00Warner Options Films to eBooks<br />
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Warner Bros. announced it would sell four of the movie studio's classic scripts -- CASABLANCA, BEN-HUR, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, and NORTH BY NORTHWEST -- as enhanced ebooks for Kindle, Nook, and iPad. It's the first part of a large-scale initiative in which they hope to turn hundreds of scripts into ebooks. <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/04/30/inside-the-script-lets-fans-dig-deep-into-favorite-movies/?mod=google_news_blog">The WSJ reports</a> each title will retail for $10 and "includes the film's actual shooting script and rare historical documents from the Warner Bros. archives."<br />
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President of Warner Bros. digital distribution Thomas Gewecke told the paper the company "had been looking at a variety of ideas to leverage some of the assets we had at the studio. We quickly realized there was all of this new e-book technology that we could use to create an interesting and compelling literary property." </div>
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Following the trend, DemiBooks launches their own apps-as-children's ebookstore, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Storytime</span>, which allows authors to sell their books directly into the free iPad app store as well as use the service as a distribution platform. (Launch partners including McGraw-Hill Education and Kane Miller.) Storytime will be integrated with the Facebook social graph and is also partnering with Usborne Books & More, the direct sales division of Education Development Corporation.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Frommer's</span> has teamed up with Inkling to produce seven "truly interactive" travel guides from the company's Day by Day series for iOS devices, priced between $9.99 and $14.99. "We've long wanted a way to deliver a rich interactive travel guide experience across mobile platforms," said Global Publisher of Frommer's Rob Flynn in a statement. "Our partnership with Inkling lets us provide travelers with all the inspirational, insightful, and practical information they want with the added functionality and convenience that mobile devices offer. And since it's all cross-platform, from iPad to iPhone, they're just as useful for planning at home as they are for recommendations on the road."</div>
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Saying she has "the absolute right credentials and literary sensibility for what we need,” <i>Harper</i>’s editor Ellen Rosenbush said of Deidre Foley-Mendelssohn. The former <i>Paris Review Daily</i> blog editor will begin her work in early April. Her replacement at <i>The Paris Review</i> has yet to be named.<br />
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<i>Harper</i>’s recently came in a distant fifth in the annual by-line count of prestigious magazines as tallied by VIDA, a foundation for women in the literary arts, lagging behind <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Atlantic</i>, <i>The Nation</i> and <i>The Paris Review</i> in overall gender equality.<br />
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Rosenbush said she tries to have an "xx byline" in every issue and is always looking for women writers.<br />
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“It’s a mandate,” she acknowledged.<br />
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Are female editors better at bringing in women writers?<br />
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“I think it was easier for me,” she said. “There are certain women that I’ve always admired that I went after." These included Zadie Smithand Susan Faludi, who did "a big cover piece for us, and I’ll try to get her back.”<br />
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Foley-Mendelssohn replaces Gemma Sieff, who was named culture editor at <i>Town & Country</i> magazine earlier in March.<br />
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“We will miss Gemma,” Rosenbush said. “<i>Town & Country</i> is a very different type of magazine, but it’s a very big opportunity for her.”<br />
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One thing the nation's second-oldest magazine has in common with Hearst’s glossy social register rag is obvious: both approach the Internet and digital editions with an open mind, although, unlike <i>Town & Country</i>, <i>Harper</i>’s posts its content online, even if behind a pay wall.<br />
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From her point of view, although Rosenbush stressed that, despite her publisher’s disdain for the web, <i>Harper</i>’s is in the midst of a website overhaul, due to be launched in the fall. “Obviously it’s with Rick’s approval,” she said.<br />
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The new website will make a limited amount of content available for free, but most of the current issue will stay behind the pay wall.<br />
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“We in editorial are very, very, very excited about it,” Ms. Rosenbush said of the redesign. “I can’t say it more strongly.”<br />
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JK Rowling's first adult novel is coming, from Little, Brown. The British-based publisher has purchased world English rights to the first novel for adults by JK Rowling, the company announced Feb. 23. Little Brown UK publisher David Shelley will serve as Rowling's editor, and Michael Pietsch will oversee publication in the US.<br />
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All other details--title, pub date "and further details about the novel--will be announced later in the year." But one important element has been settled: While the world waits for Pottermore and the Harry Potter ebooks, Little, Brown promises they will publish "both in print and ebooks."<br />
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Rowling says in the release: "Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as much, my next book will be very different to the Harry Potter series, which has been published so brilliantly by Bloomsbury and my other publishers around the world. The freedom to explore new territory is a gift that Harry's success has brought me, and with that new territory it seemed a logical progression to have a new publisher. I am delighted to have a second publishing home in Little, Brown, and a publishing team that will be a great partner in this new phase of my writing life." Rowling was represented by Neil Blair at The Blair Partnership.<br />
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A: You can stay focused on a project instead of jumping from one idea to another in one of a couple ways. One is to create an outline, either numbered chapter-by-chapter or point-by-point, and keep writing on that chapter or point until you're finished. Then go on to the next chapter or point. A second way is to set up a deadline, just as you'd have if you were a reporter working for your local newspaper. Give yourself one hour, for example, in which to write everything you can about your subject. If you deviate from the subject or dawdle, you'll miss meeting your deadline and could get fired! Either one of these methods should help get you on track and keep you there! - D. J. Herda<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2011 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="31"> AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-8514299047509894292011-11-29T11:31:00.001-07:002011-12-12T10:31:35.524-07:00New eBook Release of Fahrenheit 451<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury has finally overcome his longstanding
aversion to digital books and authorized an ebook edition of his most famous
novel, FAHRENHEIT 451, which Simon & Schuster released Tuesday. The ebook
deal comes as part of a new publishing agreement brokered by Bradbury's agent
Michael Congdon with S&S that includes all English-language print and
digital formats of FAHRENHEIT 451 in North America, and also includes
English-language mass-market rights in North America to Bradbury's THE MARTIAN
CHRONICLES and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, both of which will be reissued in March. The
ebook edition of FAHRENHEIT, originally published in 1953, will be priced at
$9.99.<br />
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"It's a rare and wonderful opportunity to continue our relationship with this
beloved and canonical author and to bring his work s to new a generation of
readers and in new formats" said publisher Jonathan Karp in the announcement.
"We are honored to be the champion of these classic works." In a telephone
interview, Congdon explained that there was an "opportunity to make a new
license" for the rights to FAHRENHEIT 451 (Ballantine published the original
hardcover edition, while S&S had published the paperback from 1962 onwards)
and there was "no way to make new license with anyone that didn't include ebook
rights."<br />
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The agency then approached Bradbury and explained that any new deal involving
the rights to FAHRENHEIT 451 could not go forward without digital rights as part
of the package, and "he was willing to go ahead and sign the contract," Congdon
said.<br />
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While Congdon wouldn't comment on specifics, he says the deal was for "a very
significant sum of money." S&S was one of six interested parties who had the
chance to bid on the new rights package, "all of whom had, one way or another,
some relationship with Ray. If there was a way to grant rights to all six
publishers, we would have. But you can't. There's a great deal of admiration for
Ray in the publishing industry, which made our job a lot easier."<br />
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Congdon said there may be ebook editions of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES and THE
ILLUSTRATED MAN, but they are under an existing license with HarperCollins,
which has so far "honored Ray's decision not to have ebook editions." With
FAHRENHEIT's ebook publication, Congdon acknowledged "a door has obviously been
opened" for HarperCollins.<br />
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Guru Deepak Chopra has become the highest-profile author yet to sign book deal with Amazon. The self-help author has found yet another key to spiritual enlightenment: become the latest in a string of big name authors to sign a deal for megabucks with Amazon.com.<br />
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Amazon has moved aggressively into publishing over the last year, signing major writers including bestselling self-help author Timothy Ferriss and actress and director Penny Marshall – the Marshall deal for $800,000 (£500,000), according to reports – and launching a phalanx of new imprints covering everything from romance to science fiction, each move a further blow to an increasingly nervous community of traditional publishers. This summer it hired former chief executive of the Time Warner Book Group Larry Kirshbaum to run its New York imprint, and Kirshbaum has now clinched a deal for a memoir from Chopra, author of bestselling self-help titles ranging from The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment to The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.<br />
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Sold for a sum reported to be higher than $500,000, Chopra and his medical professor brother Sanjiv Chopra's Brotherhood: A Tale of Faith, Big Dreams and the Power of Persistence will tell how the pair arrived in the US in the 70s with no money, looking at how they fulfilled their dreams today. Literary agent Robert Gottlieb, who negotiated the deal, called it "a game-changer for the publishing industry".<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2011 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="31"> AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-4415517500665880472011-11-06T17:55:00.003-07:002011-12-12T10:32:36.825-07:00Thie Day in History: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<b></b>
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<img align="left" border="0" height="90" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1104-vonnegut002_small.jpg" width="57" /></a>Sharing
a birth date with another of the world's most popular literary figures,
Fyodor Dostoevsky, is an American pop icon, Kurt
Vonnegut Jr. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 11, 1922,
Vonnegut was the youngest of the
three children of Edith and Kurt Vonnegut. He is the author of numerous novels,
including <i>Cat's Cradle</i> (1963), <i>Hocus Pocus</i> (1990), and <i>Timequake</i> (1997). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Vonnegut's family is of </span>
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German descent, and both of his parents spoke German in their home, although
they refused to teach the language to their son. Vonnegut was born at
a time after World War I when many Americans still considered Germany to be
evil. Vonnegut said, "[My parents] volunteered to make me ignorant and
rootless as proof of their patriotism."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">Vonnegut's
vision of the fantastic as it occurs in everyday life was influenced by a
series of tragic events as a young man. His mother committed suicide on
Mother's Day in 1944 while Vonnegut was home on leave. He survived the
bombing of Dresden, which killed nearly everyone else. He lost his sister,
Alice, to cancer within hours of her husband's death in a train crash. As a
result, Vonnegut’s fiction shows an author struggling to cope within a world
of tragicomic disparities, a universe that defies plausibility, and whose
absurdity becomes food for reality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">When Vonnegut
completed high school, his father forced him to go to college to study
biochemistry against his son’s will. Vonnegut wanted to be a journalist.
He said, "[College] was a boozy dream, partly because of booze itself, and
partly because I was enrolled exclusively in courses I had no talent for."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">Before long,
he found himself failing most of his classes when providence struck. Japan
bombed Pearl Harbor, offering Vonnegut the perfect opportunity to escape
school and join the military.</span></div>
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<img align="right" border="0" height="90" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1104-vonnegut005_small.jpg" width="64" /></a>In December 1944, Vonnegut was captured by the Germans at the Battle
of the Bulge. He was imprisoned in a slaughterhouse in Dresden, Germany,
and forced to work in a factory that manufactured food supplements for
pregnant women. Allied bombers attacked the city on the night of </span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">February 13,
1945</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">,
setting off a firestorm that burned up the oxygen and killed nearly all of
the city’s residents within hours. Vonnegut and his fellow prisoners
survived because they slept in a meat locker three stories belowground.
When they went outside the following morning, they found themselves among
few people left alive in a city that had burned to the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">Following the
war, Vonnegut began publishing fiction about the dangers of technology, but
since his work contained elements of fantasy, he was quickly labeled a
science fiction writer, and his works were not taken seriously. He said, "I
have been a sore-headed occupant of a file drawer labeled 'Science
Fiction'...and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics
regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."</span></div>
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understand the sci-fi label. Vonnegut’s first published novel, <i>Player Piano</i>,
depicts a fictional city called Ilium in which the people have surrendered
all control of their lives to a computer named, ironically enough, EPICAC,
after a substance that induces vomiting. <i>The Sirens of Titan</i> (1959)
takes place on several different planets, including a thoroughly militarized
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obvious sci-fi venues, the super-real settings of Vonneguts fictional worlds serve
primarily as a metaphor for modern society, which Vonnegut views as absurd
to the point of being surreal, as well as a world peopled by the hapless
human beings who struggle against both their environments and themselves.</span></div>
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Piano</i>, the protagonist, Dr. Paul Proteus, revolts against the vacuous
emotions of a society in which the people, freed from the need to perform
any meaningless work, lose all sense of purpose. Proteus joins an
underground movement dedicated to overthrowing the computer-run government
and takes part in a failed revolution. Although he is imprisoned at the end
of the novel, he has triumphed in regaining his humanity.</span></div>
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(1965), Vonnegut introduces one of his most endearing characters in Eliot
Rosewater, a philanthropic but ineffectual man who tries to use an inherited
fortune for the good of humanity. He soon learns, though, that his
generosity, his concern for humanity, and his attempts to reach out to his
fellow human beings are looked at as madness by a money-conscious society.
The novel takes pot shots at everyone, including organized religion,
suggesting that the keepers of the faiths use religious doctrine to justify
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these early books, Vonnegut kept trying to work on a novel about the bombing
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Dresden</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt;">.
Finally, in 1967, he published <i>Slaughterhouse-Five</i> (1969) about a
man named Billy Pilgrim who experiences the bombing of Dresden and loses his
mind, thinking that he has been transported to a planet where time no longer
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"[I knew] after I finished <i>Slaughterhouse-Five</i> that I didn't have
to write at all anymore if I didn't want to...I suppose that flowers, when
they're through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having
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was published at the height of the War in Vietnam, and antiwar protestors
saw the author as a hero and a powerful spokesperson. Vonnegut called the
work an anti-war book, although he downplayed its influence on society,
saying, "Anti-war books are as likely to stop war as anti-glacier books are
to stop glaciers." He has since become one of the most popular guest
lecturers at universities across the country.</span></div>
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said, "We would be a lot safer if the government would take its money out of
science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms...only in
superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization,
then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash."</span></div>
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1004-boorstin001.jpg"> <img align="left" border="0" height="74" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic1004-boorstin001_small.jpg" width="61" /></a>It's not often that a member of academia breaks out of his field to become a best-selling author, but it happened just that way for Daniel J. Boorstin. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 1, 1914. Raised in Oklahoma, he was graduated with honors from Harvard, studied at Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, and earned his PhD at Yale.<br />
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When President Gerald Ford nominated Boorstin to the position in 1975, the Authors League of America supported him, although the American Library Association objected because he "was not a library administrator." The Senate confirmed the nomination without debate. <br />
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During his term as Librarian of Congress, Boorstin established the Center for the Book to encourage reading and literacy. He also spearheaded what became a 10-year project to completely renovate the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, restoring the main building to its original 1897 condition. After retiring in 1987, he was named Librarian of Congress Emeritus. <br />
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Who in the world could possibly imagine writing 26 books in 3-½ years? That's what James Patterson and his team of coauthors will be producing for Little, Brown. The publisher recently announced that James and his writers will create 13 adult novels and 13 children's books that will be released through 2014. So if you're struggling to get your first or next book done, just ask yourself, how would James Patterson do it? Maybe you'll get a fresh idea or two. (Like paying several hundred thousand dollars in return for earning several million?)</div>
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<br /></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-74974419356795614162011-07-12T11:26:00.012-06:002011-12-12T10:34:14.555-07:00"Sorry, I Thought I Loved You" Gets Five-Star Review<a href="http://www.amsaw.org/authorsplace/Enhanced/CriticsCorner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://www.amsaw.org/authorsplace/Enhanced/CriticsCorner.jpg" width="200" /></a><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <img border="0" height="16" src="http://amsaw.org/Star-Animated.gif" width="16" /><img border="0" height="16" src="http://amsaw.org/Star-Animated.gif" width="16" /><img border="0" height="16" src="http://amsaw.org/Star-Animated.gif" width="16" /><img border="0" height="16" src="http://amsaw.org/Star-Animated.gif" width="16" /><img border="0" height="16" src="http://amsaw.org/Star-Animated.gif" width="16" /> </span>Following a foreword by Marcus A. Lindemann putting codependency and relationship addiction into perspective, the book, <i> Sorry, I Thought I Loved You</i>, delves into the lives of a woman by the name of Michielle DJ Beck. I say “lives” because, although married for the first time at the age of 17 and divorced for the fifth time at 34, she experienced different aspects, different generations, of codependency with each of her husbands. In fact, one of few things she seems to have had in common with them was her realization that something was wrong.</div>
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Not that she could put her finger on it, of course. She was nowhere near that far enough along in understanding her obsession with relationships. But she knew that she was different, that she didn’t fit in the way others did. That, of course, merely made her increasingly despondent and racked with guilt. What <i>was </i>she doing wrong? Why was<i> </i>she failing her spouses? Or, more realistically, why were <i> they </i>all failing <i>her</i>? In between her five marriages, she suffered similar fates with countless other relationships that never reached the altar. </div>
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But where did it all begin? And how did Michielle finally claw her way to emotional freedom? </div>
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“It all started early,” Beck writes, “ – as early as I can remember – and it only got worse as I got older. Finally, after many long and confusing years I stumbled, completely by accident, onto a path of research and self-discovery, and today I can finally put a name to the main problem that has tormented me since my earliest memories: <i>I am a codependent relationship addict.”</i></div>
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After reading everything she could find on the subject and talking with professionals in the field, she knew she had a hard, long road to recovery ahead of her. The guilt and shame she felt for not having taking action sooner proved to be a menacing roadblock along the way. So, too, did her fear of sharing her new self-discovery with others. In time, though, she came to a universal realization about codependency addicts.</div>
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“They only know that they are unhappy," she writes, "and they think a relationship of some type will make them happy again. When it doesn't, they are lost. They think: ‘Well, I guess I just need a different relationship. That must be what's wrong!’ So they leave their relationship, and they go and find another one, only to repeat the same pattern – a pattern which I finally succeeded in breaking, but only after many years, much effort, and a totally unexpected and unsolicited epiphany, which I promise I'll share with you in a later chapter.”</div>
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Obviously, Beck went on to break the chain of addiction, but the legacy of dependency lives on. In fact, after reading her fascinating and hope-inducing work on her life’s struggle to regain a sense of normalcy, I realized that I once shared her addiction. Several broken relationships and failed marriages later led me to my own painful epiphany: I had to change what was broken inside me before I could ever find true happiness with someone else.</div>
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How much easier it would have been if, 25 years ago, I’d had <i>Sorry, I Thought I Loved You </i>to guide me through my own tribulations. And just how many other people are there who could benefit from this inspirational and eye-opening tale?</div>
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Take my word for it, this is a five-star read from start to finish. Complete with chapter-ending “What the Therapist Says” interpretations and suggestions to put into use PLUS a very impressive “Resources” section. Pick up a copy today. And change your life around for good.</div>
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<span style="font-family: TIMEs new roman;">Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars</span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-34861615001552584052011-02-06T10:22:00.011-07:002011-12-12T11:30:44.787-07:00"They Call Me Doc" Gets Five-Star Reviews<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>A Fantastic Journey</b>,<b> by William James "Dare to dream..."</b><br />
Review of <i>They Call Me Doc: The Story Behind the Legend of John Henry Holliday </i>(Paperback) <b>***** 5.0 out of 5 stars</b><br />
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As an author, I am intrigued with the writing skills set into this book. D. J. Herda has created a wonderful journey into the historical past to bring the character of Doc Holiday to life. This is good... no, this is a <i>great</i> work.<br />
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<b> A Masterpiece of U.S. Western Culture</b>,<b> by Gabriela Sbarcea</b><br />
Review of <i>They Call Me Doc: The Story Behind the Legend of John Henry Holliday</i> (Paperback) <b>***** 5.0 out of 5 stars</b><br />
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"You see when a man loses his woman to another man, it is a serious matter. When a man loses his horse to another man, it is unforgivable. But when a man loses his gun to another man, it is inconceivable." <br />
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D. J. Herda , in They Call Me DOC, revives the Wild, Wild West through one of its most famous gunfighters, gamblers, and prominent figures, John Henry Holliday, also known as DOC. His voice is alive, vivid, to the point where you think he is sitting in front of you at a table in the dusty old Coral, giving you an account of his entire life over a glass of whiskey. You laugh and cry with him and want the story to go on forever. <br />
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This is the very first book written since <i>Gone With The Wind</i> that enticed me to learn more about a highly controversial time, place, and people in U.S. history, where the conflict between North and South lynched mercilessly many innocent lives and divided a nation. Those were the times that nurtured John Henry Holliday, the young man who overcame gruesome health and circumstantial obstacles to become a dentist and use his agile mind in many more ways than one. The southwestern mentality and take on life are powerful and well grounded in the fundamental principle that when the law fails to provide justice, the man steps forth. "The code of the West took precedence over the laws of mere mortals. We had `right' on our side." <br />
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But Western justice, guns, and gambling are not entertaining without a "darling whore." Kate, Doc Holliday's love, is a woman of substance, a fact that proudly defies the hazardous prejudice attached to one of the oldest occupations in human history, prostitution. There is so much more to this woman than the legend portrays, and D. J. Herda, I mean the DOC, does her "right" by telling us the truth, the formidable nuances of her life and his, that no other source has ever managed to provide to us before. <br />
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Oh, by God, I wish the DOC had lived longer! Happy reading!<br />
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<b>And from <i>Salon </i>magazine, a reader e-mailed:</b><br />
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I just finished reading your book "They call me Doc" and I just wanted to thank you for writing the best book probably ever written about this great misunderstood man. I love the way you wrote it. It was as if Doc was talking to me through the whole book. I posted it on my facebook page also because everyone that is interested in the history of the old west needs to read it. John Henry Holliday was a good man that was forced into the life that he lived and you brought that out really well. Thanks again for writing this great book.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2011 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="31"> AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-36698775869624799272011-02-05T20:24:00.008-07:002011-12-12T11:31:33.296-07:00It Happened in History: William S. Burroughs<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic0205-burroughs008.jpg" linkindex="46"> <img align="left" border="0" height="73" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic0205-burroughs008_small.jpg" width="70" /></a>One of the most influential authors of the Beat Generation was born on Feb. 5, 1914, in St. Louis, MO. Besides being the grandson of the wealthy inventor of the mechanical adding machine, William Seward Burroughs was one of the founders of the Beat movement that included Neal Cassidy, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and others. Burroughs is best known for his realistic novels about drug addiction and drug culture, including <i>Junky</i> (1951) and <i>Naked Lunch</i> (1959).<br />
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Burroughs studied English literature at Harvard, which was a calving ground for many of the writers who took their place in the Beat hall of fame. He did graduate work in ethnology and archaeology and worked a variety of jobs during World War II. He was a plain-clothes detective, exterminator, advertising copywriter, factory worker, bar attendant, and waiter.<br />
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While drifting from job to job, he met Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg in New York City around Christmas 1943, shortly after Ginsberg began studying at Columbia. Burroughs impressed them with his scholarship, as well as his sardonic sense of humor and the reserved poise that often comes with a wealthy birthright.</div>
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic0205-burroughs003.jpg" linkindex="47"> <img align="right" border="0" height="73" src="http://amsaw.org/pic0205-burroughs003_small.jpg" width="70" /></a>Older than the others in the group, Burroughs took on the role of father figure and mentor, encouraging Kerouac and Ginsberg in their attempts to write fiction and poetry. He felt a special affinity toward them because they were kindred spirits, dreamers, fantasizers. He said, "There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."<br />
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Early in his writing career, Burroughs collaborated on a humorous sketch with a Harvard classmate, Kells Elvins, and on a short Dashiell Hammett-style novel with Kerouac, but publishers rejected both works, and Burroughs began to doubt his own literary talents. His continuing search for an identity led him to seek out the criminal elements in society.<br />
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Hoping to fit in with a "community of outlaws," he began buying stolen goods, including morphine, and in 1944, he became addicted to the drug. In 1947, he moved in with Joan Vollmer, another member of the group around the Columbia campus, and she gave birth to their son, William S. Burroughs, Jr. Joan, too was an addict, making Benzedrine her drug of choice. The couple moved to New Orleans, Texas, and Mexico City in order to obtain their drugs more easily.</div>
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In the spring of 1950, Elvins visited Burroughs in Mexico City and talked him into writing a factual book about his drug experience as a "memory exercise." Burroughs set a daily schedule and mostly kept to it with the help of daily injections of morphine. He finished the project in December and titled his book <i>Junky</i>. He sent the manuscript to Lucien Carr in New York. Finally, Ginsberg obtained a copy and was able to get the book published as a pulp paperback in 1953 under the pseudonym "William Lee." The cover sported the lurid subtitle, <i>Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict</i>.</div>
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic0205-burroughs007.gif" linkindex="48"> <img align="left" border="0" height="90" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic0205-burroughs007_small.gif" width="67" /></a>On September 6, 1951, Burroughs accidentally killed his wife at a party while attempting to shoot a martini off her head with a pistol. He was stoned, and the bullet penetrated her forehead, killing her instantly. He was taken into custody and charged in Mexico City with criminal imprudence. His parents took over the care of William Junior and brought him to their home in Florida. </div>
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Released on bail, Burroughs left Mexico and traveled throughout South America looking for a drug called yage. His letters to Ginsberg describing his experiences in the cities, jungles, and mountains of Ecuador and Peru were collected in a volume later published by City Lights as <i>The Yage Letters</i> (1963). Burroughs thought the pieces would interest the same readers who had made Aldous Huxley's <i>The Doors of Perception</i> (1954) so successful.<br />
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After Burroughs left South America, he settled in Tangier, where he found he could live cheaply and obtain the drugs he needed for his very survival. His wife's death created in him a type of literary urgency. He felt that he had been possessed by an invader, "the Ugly Spirit," who controlled him at the time of the accident and maneuvered him into a lifelong struggle, "in which I have had no choice except to write my way out."<br />
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In 1957, Kerouac visited Burroughs in Tangier and began to type the hundreds of handwritten pages of Burroughs' new book, which Kerouac titled <i>Naked Lunch</i>. Afterwards, Burroughs said he was "shitting out my educated Middlewestern background once and for all. It's a matter of catharsis, where I say the most horrible things I can think of. Realize that--the most horrible dirty smelly awful niggardliest posture possible...."</div>
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic0205-burroughs004.gif" linkindex="49"> <img align="right" border="0" height="72" src="http://amsaw.org/pic0205-burroughs004_small.gif" width="103" /></a>Burroughs continued to work on the book until its publication in 1959, thinking of it as a picaresque novel narrated by his alter ego, "William Lee." His biographer, Ted Morgan, understood that Burroughs shared the "New Vision" of the writer as an outlaw, creating a "literature of risk." The compression and urgency of <i>Naked Lunch</i> in "the fragmentation of the text is like the discontinuity of the addict's life between fixes....For Burroughs sees addiction as a general condition not limited to drugs. Politics, religion, the family, love, are all forms of addiction. In the post-Bomb society, all the mainstays of the social order have lost their meaning, and bankrupt nation-states are run by 'control addicts.'" </div>
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After leaving Tangier in 1957, Burroughs traveled to London to enroll in apomorphine treatment--still banned in the U.S.--for his drug addiction. The treatment failed, and he slipped back into his more familiar ways.<br />
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Burroughs found the English literary scene to be terminally depressing. "England has the most sordid literary scene..." he said. "They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs."</div>
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Burroughs kept a daily journal with three separate columns in it. In one, he wrote what he was doing. In the second, he wrote what he was thinking. And in the third, he wrote what he was reading. He carried with him notebooks, news clippings, and photographs, as well as scissors, paste, and a tape recorder--all of which he considered part of his writing tools.</div>
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"In my writing," he said, "I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas...a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed."<br />
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In his later life, Burroughs moved to a small two-bedroom cottage in Lawrence, KS, where he lived with his cats. He took up painting and collage, turning out abstract works of art characterized as expressive surrealism.<br />
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Devoted to truth in all the arts, Burroughs said, "So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."<br />
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William S. Burroughs died in Lawrence at 6:50 p.m. on August 2, 1997, from complications of a heart attack he had suffered the previous day.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2011 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="56"> AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-59667912814792989362010-12-09T20:30:00.005-07:002011-12-12T11:31:49.788-07:00It Happened in History: Dalton Trumbo<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo005.bmp" linkindex="42"> <img align="left" border="0" height="87" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo005_small.gif" vspace="3" width="63" /></a>On December 10, 1905, screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo was born to a family living in Montrose, Colorado. His father, Orus Bonham Trumbo, soon after moved the family to Grand Junction. There, in the blue-collar town a stone's throw from neighboring Utah, the elder Trumbo worked at several occupations--from shoe salesman to beekeeper--all without much success.<br />
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When young Trumbo entered high school, he began writing for the <i>Daily Sentinel</i>, the local newspaper. He entered the University of Colorado in 1924, but when his father died the following year, he moved to Los Angeles to help support his mother and two younger sisters. He worked for nine years on the night shift at a bakery, leading him to observe, "I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of."<br />
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While working evenings, Trumbo also enrolled in classes at the University of California and at the University of Southern California. His first stories and essays appeared in <i>Vanity Fair, </i>and in 1932, he began contributing to the film magazine, the <i>Hollywood Spectator.</i> Trumbo left the bakery business for good when the magazine offered him a position as managing editor.<br />
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo006.bmp" linkindex="43"> <img align="right" border="0" height="92" hspace="0" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo006_small.jpg" width="66" /></a>Trumbo's debut as a novelist came with the publication of<i> Eclipse</i> in 1935. It was a satire in the spirit of Sinclair Lewis's <i>Babbitt </i>(1922) about a self-made businessman, John Abbott, who challenged a backward and introverted society. The work was a thinly veiled satire of life in Grand Junction as Trumbo saw it. That same year, he was hired as a reader and a screenwriter by Warner Brothers, and his star was on the rise.<br />
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Trumbo wrote 21 screenplays in the next six years, many of them low-budget remakes for the B-picture units at Warner Brothers, Columbia, and RKO. Trumbo's adaptation of Christopher Morley's novel, <i>Kitty Foyle</i>, a story about a working girl and her troubled love life, won an Oscar nomination.<br />
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo002.bmp" linkindex="44"> <img align="left" border="0" height="94" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo002_small.gif" width="57" /></a>Despite his success as a screenwriter, Trumbo was determined to become a first-rate novelist. The inspiration for his anti-war epic, <i>Johnny Got His Gun,</i> came after he'd read an article about a British officer who had been gravely disfigured in World War I. The story covers the thoughts of a soldier who has lost his arms, legs, face, sight, and hearing and decides to become an educational exhibit about the horrors of war. He believes that the people who come to see him "would learn all there was to know about war. That would be a great thing, to concentrate war in one stump of a body and to show it to people so they could see the difference between a war that's in newspaper headlines and liberty loan drives and a war that is fought out lonesomely in the mud somewhere, a war between a man and a high explosive shell."<br />
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Trumbo made his debut as a film director when he later turned the story into a movie. It won several awards at Cannes but did poorly at the box office in the U.S.<br />
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In 1938, Trumbo married Cleo Fincher. They bought a ranch, named the Lazy T, at Lockwood Valley, a short drive from Hollywood. During World War II, he served as a war correspondent with the U.S. Army Air Force. In his script, <i>Thirty Seconds over Tokyo</i>, starring Spencer Tracy (1944), he managed to tell a lavish story without the racist tones so prevalent in the day.<br />
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo001.bmp" linkindex="45"> <img align="right" border="0" height="87" hspace="0" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo001_small.jpg" width="116" /></a>Trumbo joined the Communist party in 1943. He said the meetings were "dull beyond description, about as revolutionary in purpose as Wednesday-evening testimonial services in the Christian Science Church." Nonetheless, his experimentation in social awareness eventually cost him dearly. In 1947, he was summoned before Joseph McCarthy's House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) to answer questions about the pervasiveness of communism in Hollywood. He refused to cooperate and was cited for contempt of Congress. He was convicted of the charge and, as a member of the "Hollywood Ten," spent nearly a year in a federal prison in Kentucky. Afterwards, he sold his ranch and moved to Mexico, where he continued to write scripts under various pseudonyms.<br />
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Ian McLellan Hunter said that Trumbo wrote the original story for William Wyler's film, <i>Roman Holiday</i> (1953), starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. "He asked me to front for him," Hunter later said. Hunter received an Academy Award for the story and turned his fee from Paramount over to Trumbo.<br />
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This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do." - from Trumbo's letter to the King Brothers, in <i>The Penguin Book of Hollywood</i>, ed. by Christopher Sylvester, 1998 </div>
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo004.bmp" linkindex="46"> <img align="left" border="0" height="91" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo004_small.jpg" width="69" /></a>With the help of director Otto Preminger, Trumbo broke off the blacklist in 1959 and was hired to write the screenplay for <i>Exodus</i>, based on Leon Uris's bestseller. More screenwriting credits came with <i>The Sandpiper</i>, perhaps better remembered for its song <i>The Shadow of Your Smile</i> than for its stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.<i> </i> Another Trumbo film,<i> Hawaii</i> (1966), was based on James Michener´s<i> </i>best-selling novel.<br />
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In a 1970 speech to the Screenwriters Guild, Trumbo reflected upon the horrible years of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee investigations and of Hollywood blacklisting.<br />
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"The blacklist was a time of evil, and that no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil. Caught in a situation that had passed beyond the control of mere individuals, each person reacted as his nature, his needs, his convictions, and his particular circumstances compelled him to. There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on both sides.<br />
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<img align="right" border="0" height="87" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1203-trumbo003_small.jpg" vspace="3" width="107" /> "When you who are in your forties or younger look back with curiosity on that dark time, as I think occasionally you should, it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. Some suffered less than others, some grew and some diminished, but in the final tally we were all victims because almost without exception each of us felt compelled to say things he did not want to say, to do things that he did not want to do, to deliver and receive wounds he truly did not want to exchange. That is why none of us - right, left, or centre - emerged from that long nightmare without sin."<br />
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The tumultuous life of Dalton Trumbo came to an end on September 10, 1976, when he died of a heart attack.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2010 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="57">AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-73009398617467512812010-12-06T08:23:00.001-07:002010-12-06T08:24:16.627-07:00Google eBooks Officially LaunchedGoogle's long-awaited, long-promised ebook service begins rolling out today in the United States, unveiled in a blog post by product manager Abe Murray, leaving behind its pre-release moniker of Google Editions and now known simply as Google eBooks--one sign of how the world has changed since the web giant first started discussing selling "perpetual online access" to books in 2006. As previously indicated by the company, they expect to launch in other territories in early 2011. The new ebookstore is located at <a href="http://books.google.com/ebooks" linkindex="24" title="http://books.google.com/ebooks">books.google.com/ebooks</a>, but it is launching "throughout the day," so we are advised that not all visitors will necessarily see the new store right away. Similarly, the apps, web reader and reseller ebookstores--all described further below--will start to appear today, though the precise timing is unclear.<br />
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Google declares they have "the largest ebooks collection in the world with more than 3 million titles," including "hundreds of thousands of books for sale from publishers" as well as "millions" of public domain titles, with the latter provided for free. People familiar with the catalog estimate the copyrighted works at between 300,000 and 400,000 titles, though Google is not providing a specific number. <br />
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While the reviews will come later, in its scope, scale and ambition the program clearly puts Google in contention as a major ebooks player here in the US and shortly in major markets around the world. Google executive Tom Turvey says they are "hoping to capture the full breadth of the book business" with a catalog that incorporates trade books as well as STM, scholarly and professional works. The starting collection also reflects "international diversity," with "multiple languages represented." They are offering both reflowable EPUB files, as well image-based files (when provided by publishers) with a toggle that will show such books--including color titles--"as they exist in print." Turvey underscores, as publishing people will appreciate, that "it's actually meaningful to see how the book was intended to be laid out."<br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2010 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="28">AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-43699827599014785582010-11-10T11:17:00.000-07:002010-11-10T11:17:14.572-07:00New Data on eBook Sales<div style="color: #000099; font: bold 11pt Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.25em;"></div><div style="line-height: 133%;">The AAP reported their monthly industry sales statistics for September, including eBook sales compiled from 12 publishers (including the big six). They show sales for the month of $39.9 million, ahead of August's $39 million, but behind July's $40.8 million. (Insiders warn not to make too much of the accuracy surrounding these monthly numbers, based upon how data is accumulated by publishers).<br />
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With total trade print sales of $489.5 million for September, that makes eBooks 7.5 percent of sales overall for the month. The total of $304.6 million in sales for the year so far comprises 8.2 percent of total trade sales of $3.705 billion, as recorded by the AAP. <br />
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With last month's announcement of Nook Color and Nook Kids, along with a wave of other initiatives aimed at ramping up the children's market, we were interested in where the children's eBook market is now--and what percentage of adult sales (rather than overall sales) have shifted to eBooks.<br />
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Based on percentage breakdowns supplied to by many reporting AAP publishers, in September adult eBooks comprised 9.5 percent of all adult trade title sales. Children's eBooks, on the other hand, comprised only 1.6 percent of all children's trade sales.<br />
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Overall print trade sales for the year are down 7.5 percent (or $276 million) through September, compared to a year ago. Inclusive of eBooks, however, the trade market is down a more modest 2 percent.</div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-64455229063766745512010-11-08T10:49:00.000-07:002010-11-08T10:49:01.549-07:00It Happened in History: Margaret Mitchell<div align="left"><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic0904-mitchell101.jpg" linkindex="47"> <img align="left" border="0" height="71" src="http://amsaw.org/pic0904-mitchell101_small.jpg" width="61" /></a>November 8, 1900, marks the birthday of a woman whose own life reads nearly as dramatically as her most famous book. Margaret Mitchell, a native of Atlanta, wrote <i>Gone with the Wind, </i>a book that was very nearly never published but, in fact, ended up winning the <a href="http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-pulitzerwinners.html" linkindex="48">Pulitzer Prize</a> for the author in 1937.</div><div align="left">Mitchell's mother was a suffragist. Her father was a prominent southern lawyer and president of the Atlanta Historical Society. She grew up listening to stories about the Old South and the battles that the Confederate Army had fought around Atlanta during the Civil War. As she grew older, she loved being the center of attention. She said, "If I were a boy, I would try for West Point, if I could make it; or, well, I'd be a prize fighter — anything for the thrills." </div><div align="left"><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell001.jpg" linkindex="49"> <img align="right" border="0" height="92" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell001_small.jpg" vspace="3" width="70" /></a>After being graduated from Washington Seminary, Mitchell studied medicine at Smith College. She adopted her mother's feminist leanings, clashing frequently with her father's conservatism. But she lived the Jazz Age in full and reported on it in her article, <i>"</i>Dancers Now Drown Out Even the Cowbell" in the <i>Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine</i>. </div><div align="left">"In vain," she wrote, "the leader of the jazz band may burst blood vessels in his efforts to make himself heard above the din of the <i>Double Shuffle</i> and the <i>Fandango Stomp</i>, the newest dances introduced to Atlanta's younger set. Formerly we had a vast respect for the amount of noise a jazz band could produce. Now we see it is utterly eclipsed."</div><div align="left"> Mitchell had numerous suitors when she was young. She fell in love with a man who went to fight in World War I and never returned. When Mitchell's mother died in 1919, Margaret returned to keep house for her father and brother. In 1922, she married Berrien Kinnard Upshaw, who turned out to be a cruel husband with a violent temper. The disastrous relationship was climaxed by spousal rape and was finally annulled in 1924. </div><div align="left"><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell005.gif" linkindex="50"> <img align="left" border="0" height="88" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell005_small.gif" vspace="3" width="74" /></a>Mitchell began her writing career as a journalist in 1922. Using the pseudonym, Peggy, she wrote whatever she thought her <i>Atlanta Journal </i>readers would enjoy--articles, interviews, sketches, and book reviews about beauty pageants, summer getaways, hospitals, prison cells, and whatever else that crossed her mind. She also contributed to a popular gossip column called "Elizabeth Bennett." </div><div align="left"><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell-tara.jpg" linkindex="51"> <img align="right" border="0" height="91" hspace="0" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell-tara_small.jpg" width="58" /></a>Mitchell remarried in 1926, shortly before developing a stabbing pain in her ankle. She couldn't walk, so she took a leave of absence from the paper and holed up in her apartment. She passed the time reading books. After reading everything she could get her hands on, she decided to write a book, herself. She wrote <i>Gone With the Wind,</i> beginning with the last chapter and working her way back in time. The book tells the tale of Scarlett O'Hara, an aristocratic woman born on a plantation into the genteel life. By the end of the war, she loses everything she owns.</div><blockquote> "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin - that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia sun." - from <i>Gone with the Wind</i> <br />
</blockquote><div align="left">At the end of the book, Scarlett pleads with the man she loves, Rhett Butler, who tells her that he is leaving her. She tells him that she doesn't know what she'll do if he goes away, to which he responds with one of literature's most celebrated lines, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." <br />
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Mitchell wrote the book on a sewing table and stuffed each section into a large Manilla envelope. She wouldn't admit to anyone that she was writing it. She said, "I fought violently against letting even a close friend read as much as a line." If someone walked into the room, she would throw a bath towel over her typewriter. </div><div align="left"><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell-gwtw.gif" linkindex="52"> <img align="left" border="0" height="91" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell-gwtw_small.gif" width="60" /></a>It took Mitchell nine years to complete her book. In 1935, editor Harold Latham visited Atlanta. When she met him, he said that he had heard she'd written a novel. She felt shy and told him that he was mistaken. Soon afterward, a friend told her, "I wouldn't take you for the type who would write a successful book. You know you don't take life seriously enough to be a novelist ... I think you are wasting your time trying." </div><div align="left">She was so furious with the comment that she went home and grabbed the manuscript. She ran back to Latham's hotel and caught him just as he was packing for a train back to New York. Latham liked it, and the book was published by MacMillan in 1936. Comparable in length to Tolstoy's <i>War and Peace</i>, it ran over a thousand pages in length and sold millions of copies. It broke all previous sales records. <i>The</i> <i>New Yorker </i>praised it, and poet and critic John Crowe Ransom admired "the architectural persistence behind the big work" although he criticized it for being overly Southern, particularly in its treatment of Reconstruction. </div><div align="left">Malcolm Cowley's disdain in his review came partly from the book's popularity. John Peale Bishop dismissed the novel as merely "one more of those 1,000 page<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell003-gable.jpg" linkindex="53"><img align="right" border="0" height="71" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-mitchell003-gable_small.jpg" vspace="3" width="100" /></a> novels, competent but neither very good nor very sound." Regardless, in 1937, <i>Gone with the Wind</i> was awarded the <a href="http://amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-pulitzerwinners.html" linkindex="54">Pulitzer Prize</a>. And in 1939, the movie adaptation appeared, starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. It won 10 Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture.</div><div align="left"> Margaret Mitchell died in Atlanta on August 16, 1949, after being struck accidentally by a speeding car while crossing Peachtree Street. <i> Lost Laysen</i>, a lost novella by Mitchell written when she was 16 and given to her close friend, was published posthumously in 1995. The romance was set on a South Pacific island.</div><div align="center"> <img border="0" height="64" src="http://amsaw.org/pic0904-mitchell500.gif" width="216" /></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=writerslounge-20&keyword=margaret%20mitchell&mode=blended" linkindex="55">Discover Margaret Mitchell<br />
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<div align="left">Shepard entered San Antonio Junior College, where he intended to study agriculture. But fate intervened when, a year later, he joined a touring troupe of Nomadic thespians. <span style="line-height: 130%;">"That was one of the most exciting times of my life..." he said. "We never spent more than one or two nights in the same place, and our stages were always the altars of churches... We crisscrossed New England, up into Maine and Vermont. The country amazed me, having come from a place that was brown and hot and covered with Taco stands. Finally we hit New York City and I couldn't believe it. I'd always thought of the 'big city' as Pasadena and the Rose Parade. I was mesmerized by this place."</span></div><br />
<div align="left">He was mesmerized, as well, by the stage. At the age of 19, he supported himself by serving tables at the Village Gate while pursuing his theatrical interests. His first complete play, the autobiographical <i>Cowboys</i>, received a favorable review in <i>The Village Voice</i>. The bug had bitten. Hard.</div><br />
<div align="left">Shepard gradually built his theatrical reputation upon a series of one act-plays produced in off-off-Broadway theatres. He worked at experimental spots like La Mama, Cafe Cino, the Open Theatre, the American Place Theatre, or any company he could find that would produce his work. He shared an apartment with the son of jazz legend Charles Mingus, who once remarked that, whenever Shepard wasn't reading Samuel Beckett or working, he would go into his room with a ream of paper, close the door, and emerge some time later with the same box of paper, holding a new play. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">In 1971, Shepard told an interviewer, "I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star..." Regardless, by the time he turned thirty, he had more than 30 New York productions to his credit.</div><br />
<div align="left">Shepard's early plays were innovative, influenced by early experiments as a rock musician. His settings are often a type of No Man's Land on the American horizon, his characters, typically loners and drifters caught between a mythical past and the technological present. His works often explore the relationships within deeply troubled families. In 1979, his <i>Buried Child</i>, dealing with the deterioration of the traditional American family, won the Pulitzer Prize. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-shepard008A-basinger.jpg" linkindex="30"> <img align="right" border="0" height="94" hspace="0" src="http://amsaw.org/pic1103-shepard008A-basinger_small.jpg" width="64" /></a>In 1983, Shepard divorced his wife and began a relationship with actress-producer Jessica Lange. Two years later, he adapted his play, <i>Fool for Love</i>, into a script and starred in the film with Kim Basinger and Randy Quaid. Shepard's <i>A Lie of the Mind</i> (1986), a poetic look at the American West, won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. That same year, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his works from the 1990s are <i>Simpatico</i> (1994), which he started to write while he was driving to Los Angeles, and <i>Cruising Paradise </i>(1996), which contains 40 short stories exploring the themes of solitude and loss of angry and anguished men.<br />
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Less than 10,000 words or more than 50,000: that is the choice writers have generally faced for more than a century--works either had to be short enough for a magazine article or long enough to deliver the "heft" required for book marketing and distribution. But in many cases, 10,000 to 30,000 words (roughly 30 to 90 pages) might be the perfect, natural length to lay out a single killer idea, well researched, well argued and well illustrated--whether it's a business lesson, a political point of view, a scientific argument, or a beautifully crafted essay on a current event.<br />
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Today, Amazon is announcing that it will launch "Kindle Singles"--Kindle books that are twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book. Kindle Singles will have their own section in the Kindle Store and be priced much less than a typical book. Today's announcement is a call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Amazon in making such works available to readers around the world.<br />
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"Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format," said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. "With Kindle Singles, we're reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers and we're excited to see what they create."<br />
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Like all Kindle content, Kindle Singles will be "Buy Once, Read Everywhere"--customers will be able to read them on Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices. Amazon's Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. In addition, with the Kindle Worry-Free Archive, Kindle Singles will be automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.<br />
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To be considered for Kindle Singles, interested parties should contact digital-publications@amazon.com. <br />
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The author, Stieg Larsson, died in 2004 before his books were published. <br />
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“I got an e-mail from Stieg 10 days before he died, where he said that book four is nearly finished,” Joakim Larsson said in the interview, which also included his father, Erland.<br />
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“To make it more complicated, this book No. 4 — that’s book No. 5,” he added. “Because he thought that was more fun to write.”<br />
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The disclosure — should it be true — adds another turn to an already twisty personal story that is nearly as complicated as the plots of the Swedish crime mysteries that Larsson wrote.<br />
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The first three books of the “Millennium” series, beginning with “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” and ending with “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” have become a publishing phenomenon, with tens of millions of copies in print. Larsson did not live to see the books published; he died of a heart attack in 2004, at the age of 50.<br />
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The author had said he intended the series to consist of 10 books, and he was working on a manuscript when he died.<br />
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Under Swedish law, control of his estate went to his family, rather than to Eva Gabrielsson, his longtime companion. Gabrielsson, who is reportedly in possession of a laptop containing the manuscript, declined to comment to CBS.<br />
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Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for Knopf, the American publisher of the “Millennium” books, said he believed the unpublished manuscript existed but did not know whether it was intended to be the fourth book or the fifth.<br />
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Whether it will ever be published is another question. Depending on the plot and substance of the story, it is possible that it could work as the fourth book in the series, even if it had been intended to be the fifth.<br />
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According to CBS, the Larssons said they would not allow the book to be published.<br />
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<div align="left"><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1003-greene022_author.jpg" linkindex="62"> <img align="right" border="0" height="59" hspace="0" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic1003-greene022_author_small.jpg" width="50" /></a>Henry Graham Greene, English novelist, journalist, and playwright, was born on October 2, 1901, in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. The fourth of six children, he was an awkward and painfully shy youth. He had no inclination toward sports, and he often cut school so that he could read adventure stories such as those by authors Rider Haggard and R. M. Ballantyne. Such stories influenced him greatly and helped to shape his literary style.</div><br />
<div align="left">Although many of his works combine elements of the detective story, the spy thriller, and the psychological drama, Greene's weightier novels are mostly stories of the damned. His heroes eventually are forced to face their shortcomings and arrive at salvation only after a long period of suffering and soul-searching agony. </div><br />
Greene began his life in England, the son of Charles Greene and Marion Raymond Greene, who was a first cousin to author Robert Louis Stevenson. Greene's father, a brilliant intellect, became headmaster at Berkhamsted School. Originally, he had intended to become a barrister, but he discovered that he enjoyed teaching more, although his history lessons were often less lessons than diatribes on why Liberalism had failed society.<br />
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Young Greene was educated at Berkhamstead and Balliol College, Oxford. Plagued by debilitating insecurity, he tried running away from home several times. In his teens, he attempted suicide. His parents took him to a therapist who encouraged him to start writing as a means of developing a stronger self-image and a more positive outlook on life. He introduced Greene to several of his literary friends.<br />
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1003-greene005_author.jpg" linkindex="63"> <img align="left" border="0" height="71" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic1003-greene005_author_small.jpg" width="49" /></a>Greene quickly learned that he had a natural talent for writing, and during his three years at Balliol, he published more than sixty poems, stories, articles, and reviews, most of which appeared in the student magazine, <i>Oxford Outlook,</i> as well as in the <i>Weekly Westminster Gazette</i>. In 1926, he converted to Roman Catholicism, saying afterwards, "I had to find a religion... to measure my evil against." When critics began exhuming the religious undertones in his works, Greene complained that he hated the term being hung on him: "Catholic novelist."<br />
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In 1926, Greene moved to London, where he went to work as a reporter for the <i>Times </i>(1926-30) and for the <i>Spectator</i>, where he was a film critic and a literary editor until 1940. There, he met Vivien Dayrell-Browning.<br />
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She had been a secretary at Blackwell's publishers and wrote to Greene at Oxford, chastising him for his article linking cinema, sex, and religion. The two met for tea and fell in love, although Vivien was slower to yield to Cupid's arrow than was Greene. He began courting her with a letter of apology. <br />
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"You carry magic with you always," he wrote her at the beginning of their courtship, "it is in your eyes, & your voice, & your long dark hair, & your whiteness." Vivien, though younger and sexually inexperienced (quite the opposite of Greene), was cooler and more sophisticated when it came to love and kept him at a distance.<br />
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1003-greene001_author.jpg" linkindex="64"> <img align="right" border="0" height="73" hspace="0" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic1003-greene001_author_small.jpg" width="61" /></a>The two finally married in 1927. Their relationship spanned two decades, ending with a separation only when a bomb during the Blitz destroyed their lovely and thankfully empty home at 14 Clapham Common, Vivien having already been evacuated with the children. She was terrified at the thought that Greene might have been in the house, but he was secretly living with his paramour, Dorothy Glover, and escaped harm. In an interview, Vivien said later, "Graham's life was saved by his infidelity." <br />
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After their relationship ended, he had a string of mistresses, including in the 1950s Swedish actress Anita Björk, whose husband, writer Stig Dagerman, had committed suicide a year earlier. In 1938, Greene began an affair with Dorothy Glover, a theatre costume designer; with whom he would remain close until the late 1940s. She started a career as a book illustrator under the name of Dorothy Craigie, writing children's books of her own, including <i>Nicky and Nigger and the Pirate</i> (1960).<br />
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During World War II, Greene worked "in a silly useless job," as he said afterwards. He was in intelligence for the Foreign Office in London, under Kim Philby, who would later gain notoriety for his defection to the Soviet Union. On one mission to Africa, the writer found little to write home about. "This is not a government house, and there is no larder: there is also a plague of house-flies which come from the African bush lavatories round the house."<br />
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1003-greene003_author.jpg" linkindex="65"> <img align="left" border="0" height="74" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic1003-greene003_author_small.jpg" width="73" /></a>Greene returned to England in 1942 and, following the war, traveled the world as a freelance journalist, living for extended periods in Nice on the French Riviera. With his anti-American comments, he gained access to some of the world's major Communist leaders, including Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Manuel Noriega, and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos. But English novelist Evelyn Waugh, who knew Greene better than anyone else, assured in a letter to a friend that the author "is a secret agent on our side and all his buttering up of the Russians is cover.'"<br />
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<a href="http://amsaw.org/pic0904-greene110.jpg" linkindex="66"> <img align="right" border="0" height="74" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic0904-greene110_small.jpg" width="62" /></a>Without bothering to end his affair with Glover, Greene began a simultaneous affair with a stunningly beautiful Catholic convert, Catherine Walston (right), in 1946. Walston was also Greene's goddaughter. Greene met her when, after her conversion to Roman Catholicism, she asked him out of the blue to be her godfather, a ceremony witnessed by Greene's wife, Vivien. He was 42 and internationally celebrated for novels such as <i>The Power and the Glory. </i>She was 30 and the mother of six children.<br />
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Greene met Walston, fell in love, and then sustained a long and passionate affair which was conducted with the full knowledge of all members of both families. Harry Walston himself came to be utterly and helplessly complicit in the relationship. Greene dedicated <i>The End of the Affair</i> to his paramour. In the book, a writer is having an affair with a neighbor’s wife. He and the neighbor have a strange friendship, as did Greene and Catherine’s husband. When a German bomb hits the building where the lovers are meeting, the woman spontaneously prays to God that she will change her life if only her lover is not dead. Amazingly, he is not. But this sets off a titanic tug-of-war in several characters’ souls about the relative claims of human and divine love.<br />
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<i> </i><i><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1003-greene-walston002_author.jpg" linkindex="67"> <img align="left" border="0" height="74" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic1003-greene-walston002_author_small.gif" width="60" /></a>The End of the Affair</i> was a scandalous success, so much so that some Catholic wags complained that it gave the impression that Christ had said: "If you love me, break my commandments." Greene and Walston were certainly active in doing that. He began rationalizing the affair, going so far as to get confirmation from some priests that it was all right to go to confession again, even knowing that he would immediately return to the illicit liaison. Greene’s earlier sense of the acute tension between earthly and heavenly impulses gradually slid into a more lax form of Catholicism better suited to his own personal lifestyle.<br />
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Greene termed his more popular contemporary thrillers--works such as <i>Orient Express </i>(1932) and <i>The Ministry of Fear</i> (1943)--mere “entertainments” in an attempt to set them apart from his more serious fiction. His light-hearted romps through populist literature were mostly inspired by his own experiences in the British foreign office in the 1940s and his lifelong ties with SIS.<br />
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As both agent and writer, Greene is a crossover between authors such as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson, and Daniel Defoe and more modern day writers such as John Le Carré, John Dickson Carr, Somerset Maugham, and Alec Waugh. The author came by his intrigue with spies and clandestine affairs quite easily. His uncle, Sir William Graham Greene, helped to establish the Naval Intelligence Department, and his oldest brother, Herbert, served as a spy for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the 1930s. Graham's younger sister, Elisabeth, joined MI6 and recruited Graham into the regular ranks of the service. <br />
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<div align="left"><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1003-greene008-brightonrock_author.jpg" linkindex="68"> <img align="right" border="0" height="75" hspace="0" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic1003-greene008-brightonrock_author_small.jpg" width="82" /></a>Greene's most important and enduring works include <i>Brighton Rock</i> (1938), which was also made into a film (right), <i>The Power and the Glory</i> (1940), <i>The Heart of the Matter</i> (1948), and <i>The End of the Affair</i> (1951), all of which set a tone of high literary, as well as moral, distinction. While Greene may have dabbled from time to time in "entertainments," the majority of his work marks him as a literary novelist of great stature.</div><br />
<div align="left">He was also a first-rate journalist, something that some critics attribute to his excelling as a novelist. Many of his novels are set in sites of topical journalistic interest: <i>The Quiet American</i> (1955) is the account of early American involvement in Vietnam. <i>Our Man in Havana</i> (1958), set in Cuba, foretells the coming of the Marxist revolution there. <i>A Burnt-Out Case</i> (1961), in the Belgian Congo, takes place just before that nation's struggle for independence. <i> The Comedians</i> (1966), in François Duvalier's Haiti, unfolds before the dictator's overthrow. <i>The Captain and the Enemy</i> (1980), set in Panama, details the rise and fall of the pre-Noriega nation.<br />
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<div align="left"><a href="http://amsaw.org/pic1003-greene014-moviethirdman_author.jpg" linkindex="69"> <img align="left" border="0" height="73" hspace="3" src="http://amsaw.org/swetkyagency/images/pic1003-greene014-moviethirdman_author_small.gif" width="89" /></a>In addition to such timely ventures, the author also displays a marked sense of finely honed comedic value in his short-story collection, <i>May We Borrow Your Husband?</i> (1967), as well as in the novel, <i>Travels with My Aunt</i> (1969). He also wrote several plays, including <i>The Living Room</i> (1953) and <i>The Potting Shed</i> (1957), both thinly disguised religious dramas, as well as <i>The Complaisant Lover</i> (1959), a witty and intelligent play about marriage and infidelity. He is also noted for his short stories, essays, film critiques, and scripts, including the mystery melodrama, <i>The Third Man</i> (1950, above).</div><br />
<div align="left">Not surprisingly, Greene has been the subject of numerous biographies. When professor Norman Sherry started writing his version, Greene gave him a map of the world, marking all of the places he had visited. Sherry decided to go to all of the spots that Greene had marked. He took twenty years to complete the book. Greene limited himself to writing only five hundred words a day and would stop writing even in the middle of a sentence. Nonetheless, he published nearly one hundred books, plays, and scripts in his lifetime.</div><br />
<div align="left">Graham Greene died in 1991.</div><div align="center"><img border="0" height="81" src="http://amsaw.org/pic0904-greene200.gif" width="185" /></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2010 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="14">AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-28062564328170364742010-10-01T09:15:00.005-06:002010-10-02T09:31:27.926-06:00Book Dump Snarls Traffic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xCN8Z3jz2Fe40CVAZWUtPUC88qEUJBwriIUJouYPx4b7XjLYitVhoHUtTu7Pfbsxm8MIA3DVm0nf_cctOJ3YWnQjjwtRbdMyfZkHbRI5ooUP1sOmWYFUS9BnV3rMVY0P7Hg3/s1600/93310008-cutout.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="10" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6xCN8Z3jz2Fe40CVAZWUtPUC88qEUJBwriIUJouYPx4b7XjLYitVhoHUtTu7Pfbsxm8MIA3DVm0nf_cctOJ3YWnQjjwtRbdMyfZkHbRI5ooUP1sOmWYFUS9BnV3rMVY0P7Hg3/s200/93310008-cutout.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>From Our "Isn't There a Better Way?" Department:<br />
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Andrew Marr's latest book is, literally, stopping traffic. Boxes containing 15 British tons (16.8 U.S. tons) worth of the journalist's history volume, <i>The Making of Modern Britain,</i> have been strewn across a busy English road following a recent accident. Thames Valley Police said on Sept. 29 that a truck carrying books overturned approximately 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of London shortly before midnight the night before. The driver suffered cuts to his arms, and the road was closed throughout the night as the books were cleared away.<br />
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Video footage on the BBC website showed smashed-open boxes of the book piled by the roadside. <i>The Making of Modern Britain </i>is described by its publisher as "a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the 20th century." Marr, a BBC reporter and presenter, apologized to anyone who had been inconvenienced, and said he hoped the book was not "being taken off to be pulped."<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2010 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="14">AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-478900417258441422010-09-27T09:07:00.007-06:002010-10-01T09:18:42.187-06:00White House Intel Flop Costs Taxpayers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://amsaw.org/blog/pic-obama001.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="20" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://amsaw.org/blog/pic-obama001.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>From Our "Does It Get Any Weirder than This?" Department<br />
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Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman for Obama's White House said Sept. 25.<br />
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"DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing because they [<i>sic</i>] contained information which could cause damage to national security," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham said.<br />
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In a statement to CNN, Cunningham said defense officials observed the September 20 destruction of about 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's new memoir, "Operation Dark Heart." The cost to taxpayers for the action is estimated at nearly $50,000.<br />
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Shaffer says he was notified the day before about the Pentagon's purchase.<br />
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"The whole premise smacks of retaliation," Shaffer told CNN following White House admissions. "Someone buying 10,000 books to suppress a story in this digital age is ludicrous." Even more so, apparently, when an unknown and unspecified number of digital copies are still circulating as eBooks. <br />
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"I followed my instructions from the Department of the Army to the letter," Shaffer said. "I even warned DOD that their destruction of these books would only create more demand and increase readership."<br />
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Shaffer's publisher, St. Martin's Press, released a second printing of the book that it said had incorporated some changes the government had sought "while redacting other text he (Shaffer) was told was classified."<br />
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From single words and names to entire paragraphs--"Even hyphens in hyphenated words," Shaffer said--blacked out lines appear throughout the book's 299 pages.<br />
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CNN obtained a memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency dated August 6 in which Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess claims the DIA tried for nearly two months to get a copy of the manuscript. Burgess said the DIA's investigation "identified significant classified information, the release of which I have determined could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to national security."<br />
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Burgess said the manuscript contained secret activities of the U.S. Special Operations Command, CIA, and National Security Agency.<br />
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Shaffer's lawyer, Mark Zaid, said earlier this month that the book had been reviewed by Shaffer's military superiors prior to publication.<br />
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"There was a green light from the Army Reserve Command," Zaid told CNN.<br />
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But intelligence agencies apparently raised objections when they received copies of the book.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2010 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="25">AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-62953751262843544192010-09-21T20:22:00.007-06:002010-09-27T09:09:20.744-06:00New York's "Round Table" Algonquin Changes Hands<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBF0L-QUUIDY4oS2gfN4l5Qc4sIxhIApXHY1GijW5N35Bj8b5ltxQCM_u85G34c8d4ZyebNSTTqnmolcuJEbgGN0jfFJLS4W2WAEtJd5nvMDmtQY1LvZMR2bOJq5xV1TvXa_kJ/s1600/AlgonquinHotel.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="20" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBF0L-QUUIDY4oS2gfN4l5Qc4sIxhIApXHY1GijW5N35Bj8b5ltxQCM_u85G34c8d4ZyebNSTTqnmolcuJEbgGN0jfFJLS4W2WAEtJd5nvMDmtQY1LvZMR2bOJq5xV1TvXa_kJ/s200/AlgonquinHotel.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The Algonquin Hotel, the hotel where literary figures of the 1920s held court at the fabled centerpiece Round Table, is becoming a Marriott. The storied landmark at 59 W. 44th St. will become another link in the giant hotel chain this week as the first New York City property in the sprawling Marriott Autograph Collection, according to a Crain's New York Business report.<br />
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The 174-room hotel, which opened in 1902, was designated as a city landmark three years ago for its historic relevance as a gathering place for some of the country's most literary notables, including columnist Robert Benchley, <i>New Yorker </i>publisher Harold Ross, and quick-witted authoress Dorothy Parker (<i>Men Don't Make Passes at / Girls Who Wear Glasses</i>). The management maintained a steadfast tradition as a comforting haven for artists, even in the face of such guest complaints as lost sleep during Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's work on their musical, <i>My Fair Lady</i>.<br />
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It likely won't be the only storied New York City hotel to sail under the Marriott Autograph flag. "We are actively looking for other New York hotels to add to the collection," a Marriott International <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Marriott+International+Inc." linkindex="22" title="Marriott International Inc."></a>spokeswoman told Crain's.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copyright 2010 <a href="http://www.amsaw.org/" linkindex="27">AmSAW</a></span></div>D. J. Herdahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10968293562492319044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6255798.post-39945224875351804732010-09-15T08:20:00.003-06:002010-09-21T20:21:38.256-06:00In Death There Is, What? Publishing?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUvunYg82BRqrTr_xjCXRiSabItHWTTAQjcE5XJMTctc8ANf1G7bJYC5JaZbAdY7d1e87hdqUSn6wA_tBXUUfhIvk1FQZ5NKC823-GPpDk4SAAjmkiWh_r4YLcdgUGi8rGXPV/s1600/ThePaleKing.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="20" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUvunYg82BRqrTr_xjCXRiSabItHWTTAQjcE5XJMTctc8ANf1G7bJYC5JaZbAdY7d1e87hdqUSn6wA_tBXUUfhIvk1FQZ5NKC823-GPpDk4SAAjmkiWh_r4YLcdgUGi8rGXPV/s200/ThePaleKing.jpg" width="135" /></a></div>Little, Brown & Co. recently revealed the cover jacket for <i>The Pale King</i>, an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace due for publication next year. In a PR release, the publisher said the novel, whose cover design was created by Mr. Wallace’s widow, Karen Green, takes place in “an IRS tax-return-processing center in Illinois in the mid-1980s.” It tells the story of “a crew of entry-level processors and their attempts to do their job in the face of soul-crushing tedium.”<br />
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I don't know about you, but I'm going to rush right out and get in my pre-order.<br />
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Michael Pietsch, the publisher of Little, Brown and the editor of the novel, added that the author “takes agonizing daily events like standing in lines, traffic jams, and horrific bus rides — things we all hate — and turns them into moments of laughter and understanding.<br />
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“Although David did not finish the novel, it is a surprisingly whole and satisfying reading experience that showcases his extraordinary imaginative talents and his mixing of comedy and deep sadness in scenes from daily life.”<br />
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Did I say rush right out? I'm jetting to my nearest bookstore.<br />
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Little, Brown said it will release the book on – when else? – April 15.<br />
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All of which makes us wonder: is there publishing after death? Or simply corporate greed?<br />
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