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Saturday, April 12, 2014
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Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for April 11, 2014.
Digital Exclusive: Sue Monk Kidd on Oprah's "Super Soul Sunday"
Sue Monk Kidd and Oprah are together again! Kidd's The Invention of Wings was previously an Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection. Now she's chatting with Oprah on the Emmy Award winning OWN Network series "Super Soul Sunday." Here's a digital exclusive that you won't see on the show, to whet your appetite.
Oprah's "Super Soul Sunday" interview with Sue Monk Kidd airs …
Rabbit, Write: Five Things You Didn't Know About John Updike
It’s often useful to separate artists from their art, to assume that a novel, or an entire body of work, isn’t thinly veiled autobiography*. Updike, Adam Begley’s exhaustive and revealing account of the American master’s life, begs us to reconsider that doctrine. Detailed yet readable, it goes far beyond describing the chronology of this unsurprisingly complex (and often …
Friday, April 11, 2014
Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for April 10, 2014.
How I Wrote It: "All I need is my laptop and a comfy chair" - Alice LaPlante
When a respected plastic surgeon mysteriously dies in a Palo Alto hotel room, a novice police detective immediately suspects foul play--especially after discovering that the man had three wives in three different cities. With that setup, Alice LaPlante's A Circle of Wives explores the mysteries of love and marriage, trust and suspicion. Based on a true story that occurred eight years ago …
Amazon Asks: Bob Saget Gives a PG-13 Glimpse of the Man Behind "Dirty Daddy"
You've likely seen actor/comedian Bob Saget on TV. Question is, which Bob Saget did you see? The family-friendly Saget of "Full House" and "America's Funniest Home Videos" fame is oh-so-different from the potty-mouthed button pusher who cameo-ed as a misogynist neighbor on "Entourage" and a drug-addicted actor on"Huff," appeared in the blue comedy …
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for April 9, 2014.
A Peek Inside "What Would Lynne Tillman Do?"
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? is a collection of 35 essays from a brainy, funny American thinker and writer--the kind of person able (and willing!) to dispense observation and advice on everything from great writing to Chet Baker to the Internet and how it has changed society. In other words, she's a know-it-all, in all the best ways: warm, wise, and, when it's called for, pointed in her …
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
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Amazon Blogs: Omnivoracious Daily Digest
Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for April 8, 2014.
Kindle Singles Roundup, Including Colum McCann's First Short Story in a Decade
Longform digital stories seem to be having a prolonged moment, an ongoing honeymoon in the marriage between storytelling and the digitization of the written word. Pioneered by Kindle Singles, Byliner, and The Atavist, and hailed as an antidote to the dying space alloted in newspapers and magazines for short stories, novellas, and longer works of journalism, I've enjoyed watching more and more …
Amazon Asks: Christopher Priest, author of "The Adjacent"
One does not simply read a book by Christopher Priest (The Prestige, The Glamour, etc.). It is not a casual, relaxing, kick back and enjoy type of experience. His books are often intentionally confusing, reality-mangling, complex adventures in which the reader must be a vigilant participant, attentive to hidden details and willing to dig deep into the layers. Priest's latest, The Adjacent …
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