tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25828954695089617632024-03-08T04:49:16.610-08:00Modern MemoirA resource for writers interested in the art of memoir, current trends in publishing, pitching to agents, and connecting with others with information to share.Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-81961688121401955532014-01-31T11:11:00.002-08:002014-01-31T11:11:23.482-08:00Pig CandyFrom Amazon.com<br />
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<em>Pig Candy</em> is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed <i>Black, White, Other</i>, comes to understand his rich and difficult background and the conflicting choices he has had to make throughout his life. <br /><br /> Lise Funderburg is a child of the '60s, a white-looking mixed-race girl raised in an integrated Philadelphia neighborhood. As a child, she couldn't imagine what had made her father so strict, demanding, and elusive; about his past she knew only that he had grown up in the Jim Crow South and fled its brutal oppression as a young man. Then, just as she hits her forties, her father is diagnosed with advanced and terminal cancer -- an event that leads father and daughter together on a stream of pilgrimages to his hometown in rural Jasper County, Georgia. As her father's escort, proxy, and, finally, nurse, Funderburg encounters for the first time the fragrant landscape and fraught society -- and the extraordinary food -- of his childhood. <br /><br /> In succulent, evocative, and sometimes tart prose, the author brings to life a fading rural South of pecan groves, family-run farms, and pork-laden country cuisine. She chronicles small-town relationships that span generations, the dismantling of her own assumptions about when race does and doesn't matter, and the quiet segregation that persists to this day. As Funderburg discovers the place and people her father comes from, she also, finally, gets to know her magnetic, idiosyncratic father himself. Her account of their thorny but increasingly close relationship is full of warmth, humor, and disarming candor. In one of his last grand actsFunderburg's father recruits his children, neighbors, and friends to throw a pig roast -- an unforgettable meal that caps an unforgettable portrait of a man enjoying his life and loved ones right up through his final days. <br /><br /><i>Pig Candy</i> takes readers on a stunning journey that becomes a universal investigation of identity and a celebration of the human will, familial love, and, ultimately, life itself.<br />
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The AARP and The Huffington Post have teamed up for a writing contest. The two organizations are calling for memoirs as part of their new Memoir Contest.<br />
The winner will get a $5,000 prize will be excerpted in AARP The Magazine and featured on The Huffington Post’s website. In addition, Simon & Schuster will consider publishing the work. The first 5,000 words of the memoir is due February 15, 2014. Finalists from this round are invited to submit their complete memoir by June 15th. The books should run between 20,000 to 50,000 words.<br />
To enter the contest, you have to have been born before Dec. 31, 1964. Here is more about eligibility from <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/22/memoir-contest-rules_n_4317794.html?1385056492" target="_blank">the rules</a>:<br />
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The AARP & Huff/Post50 Memoir Contest (the “Contest”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia) who were born before Dec. 31, 1964. Employees, contractors, and their immediate families (spouse, parents, children, siblings, and their respective spouses), including those living in the employees’ households of AOL Inc., AARP, Simon & Schuster, Inc. (“S&S”), and their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, advertising and promotion agencies (collectively, the “Contest Entities”), are not eligible to enter or win a Prize.</blockquote>
Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-45031949688260548322014-01-31T11:01:00.001-08:002014-01-31T11:01:06.502-08:00Eddie Huang's Memoir to Be a TV ShowABC is shooting a pilot of Eddie Huang's memoir <em>Fresh off the Boat</em>. Huang himself is the producer and Nahnatchka Khan will be both scriptwriter and executive producer. The tv show will be about a Chinese family that settles in Orlando, Florida in the 1990s. Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-53016358183430834302013-10-01T17:03:00.002-07:002013-10-01T17:05:04.502-07:00These are a few of my favorite things, Korean food, travel, and Anthony BourdainRoy Choi to publish memoir with themes of Korean cooking and the back allies of the Los Angeles of his childhood. <br />
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Choi takes us through the neighborhoods and streets most tourists never see, from the casinos where gamblers slurp fragrant bowls of pho to Downtown’s Jewelry District, where a 10-year-old Choi wolfed down Jewish deli classics between diamond deliveries; from the kitchen of his parents’ Korean restaurant and his mother’s pungent kimchi to the boulevards of East L.A. and the best taquerias in the country, to at last, the curbside view from one of his emblematic Kogi taco trucks, where people from all walks of life line-up for a revolutionary meal.<br />
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Anthony Bourdain, a favorite traveling food critic, chef, and writer will be publishing a series of books "composed of chefs, enthusiasts, fighters, musicians and dead essayists. And we’re looking to publish them in a way that’s both accessible and respectful of the power of the written word – and appropriately fetishistic about the tactile joys of the printed page.”<br />
<a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/anthony-bourdain-gets-his-own-line-at-harpercollins_b37985">http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/anthony-bourdain-gets-his-own-line-at-harpercollins_b37985</a><br />
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So looking forward to a Bourdain special on Choi's LA food cart. Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-42521222025432214792013-10-01T16:34:00.004-07:002013-10-01T16:34:47.666-07:00Health Insurance for Self Employed WritersThis great news from Galley Cat;<br />
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Despite the federal government shutdown, the <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/rights/index.html" target="_blank">Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</a> Marketplace is now open, a way for people to compare health insurance options under the new policy also known as “Obamacare.”<br />
Self-employed writers will have more choices under this act. <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-im-self-employed/" target="_blank">Explore options for self-employed writers at the official site</a>:<br />
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You can use the Marketplace to find health coverage that fits your budget and meets your needs. You can compare important features of several plans side-by-side, all of them offering a full package of <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/essential-health-benefits">essential health benefits</a>. You can see what your <a data-content="The amount that must be paid for your health insurance or plan. You and/or your employer usually pay it monthly, quarterly or yearly." data-original-title="Premium" data-toggle="popover" href="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/premium" title="">premium</a>, <a data-content="The amount you owe for health care services your health insurance or plan covers before your health insurance or plan begins to pay. For example, if your deductible is $1,000, your plan won’t pay anything until you’ve met your $1,000 deductible for covered health care services subject to the deductible. The deductible may not apply to all services." data-original-title="Deductible" data-toggle="popover" href="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/deductible" title="">deductibles</a>, and<a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/will-i-qualify-to-save-on-out-of-pocket-costs">out-of-pocket costs</a> will be before you decide to enroll. You can’t be denied coverage or charged more because you have a <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-i-have-a-pre-existing-health-condition">pre-existing health condition</a>. If you currently have individual insurance–a plan you bought yourself, not the kind you get through an employer–you may be able to change to a Marketplace plan. <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-i-want-to-change-individual-insurance-plans">Learn more about changing individual insurance plans.</a></blockquote>
Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-23443213681383631712013-09-19T14:53:00.001-07:002013-10-01T16:28:54.685-07:00The Year Without Pants- thoughts on writing from homeReposted from GalleyCat;<br />
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In his new book, <a href="http://scottberkun.com/books/" target="_blank"><em>The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work</em></a>, author <strong>Scott Berkun</strong> outlined what he learned while working as a manager at the major blog company.<br />
On today’s Morning Media Menu, Berkun shared insights that can help editors, publishers and writers cope with the rapidly changing digital workplace. Press play below to listen, but here’s an excerpt:<br />
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Working remotely at all is considered taboo at some companies, but I think that is foolish. It should all be focused on the results instead of these superficial characteristics. If someone can work well remotely, then where they are in the world shouldn’t really matter that much. It should be focused on their output and their results.</blockquote>
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Everyone at WordPress.com works remotely or works from home, which means there are no office hours, no set place to go to work. One of the big discoveries in the book is about co-working and finding places where other independent workers are working. There are social benefits that come from being in a room with other people who are working. Even if you are not working on the same thing. Wise managers or employers should be open-minded about allowing their employees to experiment and try co-working spaces.</blockquote>
Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-40318080511043345472013-09-19T14:50:00.003-07:002013-09-19T14:50:43.396-07:00Weinstein is sick of the negative attitudes about Generation Y<br />
An excerpt from Adam Weinstein's essay in Gawker this month. Over 700,000 views;<br />
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I once listened to a professor, who is in his sixties, read us the first published piece he’d been paid for, in the late 1970s. A thousand words or so. The rate, he says, was something like two bucks a word. That’s four times what the Village Voice pays today, even for an award-winning investigative cover story. It’s geometrically greater than what most writers can earn today writing daily brilliance for nationally renowned publications online. And writing daily brilliance, which many of them do, is hard goddamned work. If I had a dollar for every older writer or editor who confided to me that “I don’t know how young writers do it today; I certainly couldn’t,” I could buy every property that publishes them. So no, we shan’t be doing as well as our parents, and no, we shan’t be shutting up about it.Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-45058292377183438562013-08-21T09:45:00.002-07:002013-08-21T09:45:31.617-07:00World's Strongest Librarian by Josh HanagarneLisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-35951147371446475882013-05-07T11:20:00.003-07:002013-05-07T11:36:34.856-07:00Inspiring Story of an Extraordinay American Citizen<br />
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<span id="ecxfreeTextContainer2563789371581456361" style="display: none;"><strong>An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight-lifting </strong><br /><br /> Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn’t officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years old and onstage in a school Thanksgiving play when he first began exhibiting symptoms. By the time<a class="ecxactionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101121-the-world-s-strongest-librarian?utm_campaign=2013_5&utm_content=memoir__autobiography_pos0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_releases#" target="_blank">...more</a></span> <span id="ecxfreeText2563789371581456361"><strong>An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight-lifting </strong><br /><br /> Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn’t officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years old and onstage in a school Thanksgiving play when he first began exhibiting symptoms. By the time he was twenty, the young Mormon had reached his towering adult height of 6’7” when—while serving on a mission for the Church of Latter Day Saints—his Tourette’s tics escalated to nightmarish levels.<br /><br /> Determined to conquer his affliction, Josh underwent everything from quack remedies to lethargy-inducing drug regimes to Botox injections that paralyzed his vocal cords and left him voiceless for three years. Undeterred, Josh persevered to marry and earn a degree in Library Science. At last, an eccentric, autistic strongman—and former Air Force Tech Sergeant and guard at an Iraqi prison—taught Josh how to “throttle” his tics into submission through strength-training.<br /><br /> Today, Josh is a librarian in the main branch of Salt Lake City’s public library and founder of a popular blog about books and weight lifting—and the proud father of four-year-old Max, who has already started to show his own symptoms of Tourette’s.<br /><br /><em>The World’s Strongest Librarian</em> illuminates the mysteries of this little-understood disorder, as well as the very different worlds of strongman training and modern libraries. With humor and candor, this unlikely hero traces his journey to overcome his disability— and navigate his wavering Mormon faith—to find love and create a life worth living</span> </div>
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Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-62157928667306242612013-05-01T13:48:00.002-07:002013-05-01T13:48:28.480-07:00GalleyCat's Best Writing Music of 2013, so far;<strong>Best Writing Music of 2013, So Far…</strong><br />
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href="http://open.spotify.com/track/4dvILk4GbIMK64CXln0odQ">Mogwai – Eagle Tax</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/5XZ1zqiKhmTPrZEQErvUQ1">Mogwai – Modern</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/1Y5rMXuvfMNBpDpOCQpZd8">Mogwai – Wizard Motor</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/71vTgLLHqKxZwpZt98tHp3">Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Only The Winds</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/5S4CMk3gLWU48G2jWgQPqV">Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: We (Too) Shall Rest</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/4r1z6xbDJRh3oCJCtEhVuL">Arnalds, Ólafur – Arnalds: This Place Was A Shelter – This Place Was A Shelter</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/34lqJW5cuBoqhG4HjKTEYd">William Tyler – Country of Illusion</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/6HbT5PQU2QAMkZDV2vfsU7">William Tyler – The Geography of Nowhere</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/5MmBGpSfp7JqyZwGdD9UP3">William Tyler – Cadillac Desert</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/1aGnRHjqRe1rgIe8P0xpUG">William Tyler – We Can’t Go Home Again</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/5RJnvHQHKVFRi6NF1RtN5X">William Tyler – A Portrait of Sarah</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/02imOVkxNiPTCFVE9o8uPF">William Tyler – Hotel Catatonia</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/3bhRWcygnXktyiowGUvrkX">William Tyler – The Last Residents of Westfall</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/0EydODLXTtb8BUBh5zCauH">William Tyler – The World Set Free</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/57ZZmJYo38RJww0VZi0B3K">Clint Mansell – Happy Birthday</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/6C9w8Vr60CzuRXVeqS2koF">Clint Mansell – Uncle Charlie</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/10REKDyPb27EWAxvqF3SVX">Clint Mansell – The Hunter and the Game</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/5yfBgpOfh80LqAZeSBldK4">Clint Mansell – Blossoming…</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/0neMMz4YxRnNmBU1T8tw2X">Clint Mansell – A Family Affair</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/5IQtxHOvYbYBTIv7w9dt8w">Clint Mansell – Becoming…</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/1tf2gd9VmjNAZNEbvsTUbx">Clint Mansell – Crawford Institute</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/6nHAVEPu49fxe9U8MbzF0x">Clint Mansell – The Hunter Plays the Game</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/6lXOhJhv6HvLrLdHOwOwaZ">Clint Mansell – In Full Bloom</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/0NoxrKKPar1VvWRIQisxyZ">Clint Mansell – The Hunter Becomes the Game</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/1gtveLB7gUj3eUAZPHqTux">Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Sudden Throw</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/3r5lqPLjx0wltjGmqeF88x">Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Brim</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/7LeEb354eCMys1Ez2Si48t">Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Words Of Amber</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/7kYdJ4NQcK2EYBN13zGnjb">Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Hands, Be Still</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/2L5lwtZoVSK2XvgU9AAUnw">Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Only The Winds</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/7vMc0ffVJzenTF3jtS3cJH">Ólafur Arnalds – Arnalds: Carry Me Anew</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/3BmhCZnDeHCFIQPGJMrn1W">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Open It, Rose (Hungary)</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/4BjJINaOfF1pBFdLRIKqfa">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – You Have Already Gone to the Other World</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/4qszO99uGFsdJLIXHLj4KI">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Witch’s Theme</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/0aR65GnQBwGaMwZL51H02c">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Wedding Theme (Ukraine)</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/561p6OmtX1QEpXpqw4dSWy">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Dance Melodies from Bihor County (Romania)</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/7uAXUVYl79N7wR4ZL44Szf">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Hora Pa Bataie (Romania)</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/72vjYNclxvTwUVVkYJugdG">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Nyisd Ki Rózsám (Hungary)</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/62W3Rp9IjC603Fkmd5e7Yu">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Where No Horse Neighs and No Crow Flies</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/1talCn1vUOQSl9eGXGpL8z">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Învârtîta Din Blaj (Romania)</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/0JDpGMyb8g940iYRhJPR4s">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Horses of Fire Rachenitsa</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/2qMuWSSORBSOxTqKKnw6lp">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Bury Me in the Clothes I Was Married In . . .</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/2XVGJyWml39hmzBdlZcdQ3">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – Marikam, Marikam (Hungary)</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/4UJjf1BlFn8mqMAN9gYgq0">A Hawk And A Hacksaw – The Snow in Kryvorivnya</a><br 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href="http://open.spotify.com/track/6C0yrwR0Bs4sKv1EaH1m2q">Kit Downes – Owls</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/6V3f2P3PTnw6jy0kDpor9O">Kit Downes – The Mad Wren</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/0KgK7YDlAVlWL8PE8RNBwY">Kit Downes – Jan Johansson</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/4I3jrB8JFUwXVfBaQKZkZK">Phronesis – Walking Dark – From ‘Walking Dark’</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/1kb2a4Ecui1iEVqLI5sgTy">Dave Stapleton – Henryk Part II – From ‘Flight’</a><br /><a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/6mSpWQlR8Xf0JYzoSYmqxr">Daniel Herskedal – Neck of the Woods</a>Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-15553121873673567052013-05-01T13:44:00.001-07:002013-05-01T13:44:38.278-07:00Livia Blackburn- Blogger Says Blogging is a Waste of TimeBlackburn explains why novelists should not blog, but memoirists should. 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1. Blogging is better for nonfiction writers because they share their expertise for a specific audience; connecting with that audience could potentially help sales.<br />
<span id="more-35473"></span>2. “Time spent on the blog is time spent away from something else: writing another book, contacting book clubs, taking a part-time job and investing that money in advertising or a publicist.”<br />
3. Blogging novelist often focus on the art of writing instead of their own readers, creating “a never-ending writing conference.” While that helps in “forming friendships, professional development, and learning your craft,” it doesn’t necessarily boost book sales.Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-66197466195606292722013-05-01T13:41:00.005-07:002013-05-01T13:41:40.854-07:00Figuratively killing me with overuse of the word literally<br />
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By <span property="schema:creator rnews:creator" typeof="schema:Person rnews:Person"><span property="schema:name rnews:name"><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/author/jasonboog">Jason Boog</a></span></span> on <span content="2011-09-28T14:47:49+00:00" property="schema:datePublished rnews:datePublished">September 28, 2011 2:47 PM</span></div>
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Here’s more about <a href="http://listverse.com/2011/06/07/top-10-misused-english-words/" target="_blank">the misuse of literally</a>: “This is such a widely known misused word that examples are less common, as most people know to avoid the term – which should be used to describe something that is actually happening (for example, ‘He literally danced with joy.’) but should not be used for emphasis (‘Steam was literally coming out of his ears.’)”<br />
Earlier this month, <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/why-you-shouldnt-use-the-word-irregardless_b37964" target="_blank">we warned writers</a> against using the controversial word, “irregardless.” Our sibling blog eBookNewser shared today’s tip, linking to a list of the <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/top-10-most-misused-words-in-the-english-language_b16023" target="_blank">Top 10 Misused Words</a>. What’s your favorite word that everybody abuses? (Literal dead end photograph via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/morrowless/">MorrowLess</a>)</div>
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Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-74303348542313274282013-05-01T13:39:00.002-07:002013-05-01T13:39:43.801-07:00Hauntingly Beautiful Memoir; HerI saw this Christa interviewed yesterday on Katie Couric. The discussion of "intuition" among twins was interesting. Great science to explain how coincidence is about similarities rather than a psychic connection. <br />
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Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship. Raised up from poverty by a determined single mother, the gifted and beautiful twins were able to create a private haven of splendor and merriment between themselves and then earn their way to a prestigious college and to careers as artists (a photographer and a writer, respectively) and to young marriages. But, haunted by childhood experiences with father figures and further damaged by being raped as a young adult, Cara veered off the path to robust work and life and in to depression, drugs and a shocking early death.<br /><br />A few years after Cara was gone, Christa read that when an identical twin dies, regardless of the cause, 50 percent of the time the surviving twin dies within two years; and this shocking statistic rang true to her. "Flip a coin," she thought," those were my chances of survival." First, Christa fought to stop her sister's downward spiral; suddenly, she was struggling to keep herself alive.<br /><br />Beautifully written, mesmerizingly rich and true, Christa Parravani's account of being left, one half of a whole, and of her desperate, ultimately triumphant struggle for survival is informative, heart-wrenching and unforgettably beautiful.<a class="ecxactionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15794110-her?utm_campaign=2013_3&utm_content=memoir__autobiography_pos0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_releases#" target="_blank"><span style="color: #009e9e;">(less)</span></a>Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-67783091351502269542013-03-08T14:11:00.000-08:002013-03-08T14:11:04.756-08:00<br />
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<span id="freeTextContainer2093742861504314332" style="display: none;"><br />Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they erected their gravestone—Rachael’s name was simply a branch on the sprawling<a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16128891-we-ll-be-the-last-ones-to-let-you-down?utm_campaign=2013_3&utm_content=memoir__autobiography_pos1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_releases#">...more</a></span><span id="freeText2093742861504314332"><br />Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they erected their gravestone—Rachael’s name was simply a branch on the sprawling family tree etched on the back of the stone. As she puts it: <em>I grew up in cemeteries.<br /></em>And you don’t grow up in cemeteries—surrounded by headstones and stories, questions, curiosity—without becoming an adept and sensitive observer of death and loss as experienced by the people in this small town. For Rachael Hanel, wandering among tombstones, reading the names, and wondering about the townsfolk and their lives, death was, in many ways, beautiful and mysterious. Death and mourning: these she understood. But when Rachael’s father—Digger O’Dell—passes away suddenly when she is fifteen, she and her family are abruptly and harshly transformed from bystanders to participants. And for the first time, Rachael realizes that death and grief are very different.<br /><br />At times heartbreaking and at others gently humorous and uplifting, <em>We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down</em> presents the unique, moving perspective of a gravedigger’s daughter and her lifelong relationship with death and grief. But it is also a masterful meditation on the living elements of our cemeteries: our neighbors, friends, and families—the very histories of our towns and cities—and how these things come together in the eyes of a young girl whose childhood is suffused with both death and the wonder of the living.<br /></span><img alt="We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter" id="coverImage" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356021205l/16128891.jpg" /></div>
Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-89680995229301154092013-03-08T14:06:00.004-08:002013-03-08T14:06:52.619-08:00Memoir from former member of Westboro Baptist ChurchBanished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church<br />
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<span id="freeTextContainer15996467955170558056" style="display: none;">You've likely heard of the WestboroBaptistChurch. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson shooting, and Elizabeth Edwards, all in front of their grieving families. The WBC is fervently anti-gay<a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15791137-banished?utm_campaign=2013_3&utm_content=memoir__autobiography_pos3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_releases#">...more</a></span><span id="freeText15996467955170558056">You've likely heard of the WestboroBaptistChurch. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here, protesting at events such as the funerals of soldiers, the 9-year old victim of the recent Tucson shooting, and Elizabeth Edwards, all in front of their grieving families. The WBC is fervently anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti- practically everything and everyone. And they aren't going anywhere: in March, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the WBC's right to picket funerals. <br /><br />Since no organized religion will claim affiliation with the WBC, it's perhaps more accurate to think of them as a cult. Lauren Drain was thrust into that cult at the age of 15, and then spat back out again seven years later. <strong>BANISHED</strong> is the first look inside the organization, as well as a fascinating story of adaptation and perseverance. <br /><br />Lauren spent her early years enjoying a normal life with her family in Florida. But when her formerly liberal and secular father set out to produce a documentary about the WBC, his detached interest gradually evolved into fascination, and he moved the entire family to Kansas to join the church and live on their compound. Over the next seven years, Lauren fully assimilated their extreme beliefs, and became a member of the church and an active and vocal picketer. But as she matured and began to challenge some of the church's tenets, she was unceremoniously cast out from the church and permanently cut off from her family and from everyone else she knew and loved. <strong>BANISHED</strong> is the story of Lauren's fight to find herself amidst dramatic changes in a world of extremists and a life in exile.</span></div>
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Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-88533812894272266912013-03-08T14:02:00.003-08:002013-03-08T14:02:56.839-08:00Her; A Memoir<a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15794110-her?utm_campaign=2013_3&utm_content=memoir__autobiography_pos0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=new_releases" style="color: #543319; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Her: A Memoir"><img alt="Her: A Memoir" src="https://blu002.mail.live.com/Handlers/ImageProxy.mvc?bicild=&canary=e4s3DRJzeukcubTHCUFPsc9%2bXjgdf5532sPPlyEjSYs%3d0&url=http%3a%2f%2fd.gr-assets.com%2fbooks%2f1361026316m%2f15794110.jpg" style="border: currentColor; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; max-height: 120px; min-height: 120px; width: 80px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><b>A blazingly passionate memoir of identity and love: when a charismatic and troubled young woman dies tragically, her identical twin must struggle to survive</b><br /><br />Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood, beyond friendship. Raised up from poverty by a determined single mother, the gifted and beautiful twins were able to create a private haven of splendor and merriment between themselves and then earn their way to a prestigious college and to careers as artists (a photographer and a writer, respectively) and to young marriages. But, haunted by childhood experiences with father figures and further damaged by being raped as a young adult, Cara veered off the path to robust work and life and in to depression, drugs and a shocking early death.<br /><br />A few years after Cara was gone, Christa read that when an identical twin dies, regardless of the cause, 50 percent of the time the surviving twin dies within two years; and this shocking statistic rang true to her. "Flip a coin," she thought," those were my chances of survival." First, Christa fought to stop her sister's downward spiral; suddenly, she was struggling to keep herself alive.<br /><br />Beautifully written, mesmerizingly rich and true, Christa Parravani's account of being left, one half of a whole, and of her desperate, ultimately triumphant struggle for survival is informative, heart-wrenching and unforgettably beautiful.</span></div>
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Published March 5th 2013 by Henry Holt and Co. (first published February 5th 2013) </div>
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Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-34539261246407196822013-02-04T15:45:00.002-08:002013-02-04T15:45:32.720-08:00The Nonfiction Self Pulbished Bestseller Guy Kawasaki has a best seller in a handbook for writers. <br />
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A nonfiction book has finally cracked Amazon's Best Seller list. Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-87904705840366696682013-02-04T15:40:00.000-08:002013-02-04T15:40:45.570-08:00Literary Criticsm Alive and WellFrom Technorati;<br />
<u><span style="color: #0066cc;">NetGalley</span></u> is an inexpensive and green way for publishers to share their digital galleys with reviewers, media, bloggers, journalists, librarians, booksellers and educators. PR by the Book, LLC has now become the first PR firm to partner with NetGalley. From Technorati;<br />
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From Galley Cat;<br />
Anybody who thinks literary criticism is dead should read this: the digital review copy community at NetGalley now has more than 100,000 members. <br />
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Find out about Net Galley;<br />
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<a href="http://literaryhoarders.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/weve-signed-on-for-the-net-galley-knock-down/">http://literaryhoarders.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/weve-signed-on-for-the-net-galley-knock-down/</a><br />
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<a href="http://technorati.com/technology/article/netgalley-adds-first-literary-pr-firm/">http://technorati.com/technology/article/netgalley-adds-first-literary-pr-firm/</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/NetGalley">https://www.facebook.com/NetGalley</a>Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-39346058600275413172013-02-04T15:34:00.001-08:002013-02-04T15:34:13.049-08:00Self Publish an Audio Book<br />
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From GalleyCat;<br />
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Self-published authors can create their own audiobooks with the help of a growing community at Audiobook Creation Exchange.<br />
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Writers using Audible.com’s Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), an online audiobook rights marketplace and production platform, created ten times as many audiobooks in 2012 as they did in 2011, the year the platform launched. The tool helps writers, publishers and literary agents to create and publish audio versions of their books. Authors can record their own readings using the platform, or they can work with actors and voice over professionals, who also have profiles in the market place. It is used by a variety of types of writers. Self-published authors and authors who have publishers but manage the audio rights themselves use the site. In addition, agents and publishers can use the tool to produce work.Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-54368893804127841922013-02-04T15:29:00.004-08:002013-02-04T15:29:48.621-08:00Drinking with Men, Schaap's New MemeoirHere’s an excerpt: ”What I love about bars is that they are places where people talk to one another and tell people stories. There is a kind of openness and exchange of stories in bars. Everyone is relaxed. You go to a bar not to get dressed up, not to have a really fancy night out on the town. You go to the bar to be relaxed and to be yourself. I think that really facilitates great storytelling among regulars. That’s really what we do at bars, we tell each other our stories.”<br />
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She concluded: “But you can tell (whether you are writing a story or telling your friends in the bar a story), whether the story is working or not. Sometimes the story you tell in a is going to fall flat. I think in a way, bars are a great place to hone your storytelling skills. Is this making my fellow bar-goers interested in hearing the rest of the story? Am I going into too much detail? Am I not giving enough detail? Bars are great laboratories for storytelling.”Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-39895214615768062382012-09-03T16:44:00.000-07:002013-05-01T13:50:08.969-07:00Richard Bach injured in plane crash<br />
Jonathan Livingston Seagull author Richard Bach was hospitalized after
crashing his small plane this weekend while flying in Washington State.
James Marcus Bach, the son of the bestselling novelist, has been
keeping readers updated on his father's condition on Twitter. Today he
wrote: "My father has made marked improvement today. He's lucid. We're
optimistic."<br />
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Thanks GalleyCat for this post. Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-54484202434547915942012-09-03T16:38:00.000-07:002012-09-03T16:38:07.488-07:00Fake Social Media Accounts being Removed<div class="postContent">
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Following <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/who-is-jared-silverstone_b56850" target="_blank">a GalleyCat article</a> yesterday, self-publishing company Author Solutions will remove social media accounts for <strong>Jared Silverstone</strong>–a set of profiles for an “Awesome Publishing Consultant at Author Solutions” that used a fake image from a stock photo company.<br />
Copywriter and editor <strong><strong>Emily Seuss</strong></strong> <a href="http://blog.emilysuess.com/2012/08/30/a-pr-lesson-from-author-solutions-chick-fil-a/" target="_blank">discovered a collection of social media accounts</a> sharing the same stock photo picture (embedded above), all credited to an employee named Silverstone. <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/who-is-jared-silverstone_b56850" target="_blank">You can see screenshots from the social accounts and read more at this link</a>.<br />
Here is the official statement from the self-publishing company: “At
Author Solutions we take our social media activities very seriously, and
we are committed to following industry best practices. The manner in
which the accounts were set up is not supported by our company-wide
social media policy, and in no way is condoned by our company. We are
taking appropriate action and we are in the process of removing the
content from social media accounts.”<br />
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As of this writing, the links to Silverstone’s <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/104161797175970198895/about" target="_blank">Google+ page</a>, his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jared.silverstone.3" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> and his <a href="https://twitter.com/JaredSilverston" target="_blank">Twitter page</a> have all been removed. <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/who-is-jared-silverstone_b56850" target="_blank">You can read the background here</a>.<br />
Pearson, the corporate parent of Penguin Group publishers, decided to acquire Author Solutions for $116 million back in July.<br />
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Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-87691221076836696962012-05-24T21:05:00.003-07:002012-05-24T21:05:37.658-07:00Blogger Confronts PlagerizerWell-received approach to handling copywrite infringement. Go to Galley Cat to see the remarkable video. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/writer-confronts-plagiarist-on-video_b52034<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a" style="left: 3424px; top: 563px; word-spacing: -2px;">106 E. 1st St</span><span class="a" style="left: 3178px; top: 640px; word-spacing: -4px;">Quitman, MO 64487</span><span class="a" style="left: 3246px; top: 795px;"> T (816) 604-9<span class="l6">383</span></span><span class="a" style="color: #000099; left: 2256px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 950px;"><a class="ll" href="mailto:Duane@AllAmericanBlogger.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Duane@AllAmericanBlogger.com</a></span><span class="a" style="color: #000099; left: 2521px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 1027px;"><a class="ll" href="http://www.allamericanblogger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.AllAmericanBlogger.com</a></span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 1248px; word-spacing: 3px;">May 14, 2012</span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 1392px; word-spacing: 4px;">Robert Ripley</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="a" style="left: 663px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 1701px; word-spacing: 3px;"></span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 1856px; word-spacing: 1px;">Dear Mr. Ripley,</span><span class="a" style="left: 642px; top: 2000px;"> This letter is an assert<span class="l6">ion of copyrig<span class="l6">ht over the article</span></span></span></span><span class="a" style="left: 2473px; top: 2000px; word-spacing: -4px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Changes </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Implemen</span>ted After Auditor </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 2077px; word-spacing: -3px;">Finds “Severe Shortcomings” in Holt County Sheriff’s Office</span></span></div>
<span class="a" style="left: 2645px; top: 2077px; word-spacing: -2px;">, published in the May 10th edition</span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 2155px; word-spacing: 2px;">of The Oregon Times Observer.</span><span class="a" style="left: 642px; top: 2298px;"> This article was o<span class="l6">riginally w<span class="l6">ritten by me and pub<span class="l6">lished on my web<span class="l6">site All America<span class="l6">n Blogger on</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 2376px; word-spacing: -1px;">May 1st. <span class="w" style="width: 21px;"></span>Copyright is com<span class="l6">monly understood to be in place as soon as the work ex<span class="l6">ists in a</span></span></span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 2453px; word-spacing: -3px;">tangible form and although it i<span class="w6"></span>sn’t necessary to establish copyright, the bottom <span class="w6"></span>of each page</span><span class="g" style="top: 2531px;"><span class="a" style="left: 663px; word-spacing: -3px;">on All American Blogger clearly says “</span><span class="a" style="color: #262626; left: 1932px; letter-spacing: -1px; word-spacing: 2px;">Copyright © 2007 - 2012 -</span><span class="a" style="color: #262626; left: 2814px;"><a class="ll" href="http://www.allamericanblogger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a></span><span class="a" style="color: #000099; left: 2834px; word-spacing: -4px;"><a class="ll" href="http://www.allamericanblogger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">All American Blogger</a></span><span class="a" style="left: 3532px;">.”</span></span>
<span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 2674px; word-spacing: -2px;">I was not asked for permission to reprint the article, nor was I given attribution in the</span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 2752px; word-spacing: -1px;">newspaper for the creat<span class="l6">ion of the article. <span class="w" style="width: 21px;"></span>Due to the article being used in its entirety<span class="l6">, Fa<span class="l6">ir Use</span></span></span></span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 2829px; word-spacing: -1px;">does not apply.</span><span class="a" style="left: 642px; top: 2973px;"> This is a clear v<span class="l6">iolation of United S<span class="l6">tates Copyright l<span class="l6">aw<span class="l7">.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 3116px; word-spacing: -3px;">Rather than seek monetary damages for <span class="w6"></span>copyright infring<span class="l6">ement, which range <span class="w6"></span>from $750 to</span></span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 3194px; word-spacing: -3px;">$300,000 per work for “willfu<span class="l6">l infringement,” I have <span class="w6"></span>attached an invoice totaling $500 for <span class="w6"></span>the</span></span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 3271px; word-spacing: -3px;">publication of the article.</span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 3415px; word-spacing: 3px;">Payment is due upon receipt.</span><span class="a" style="color: #191919; left: 663px; top: 3559px; word-spacing: -2px;">I'm optimistic that we can resolve this amicably, but I have consulted with an <span class="w6"></span>attorney and I</span><span class="a" style="color: #191919; left: 663px; letter-spacing: -1px; top: 3636px; word-spacing: 3px;">am prepared to take all necessary steps to protect my legal rights.</span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 3857px; word-spacing: -7px;">Sincerely yours,</span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 4288px; word-spacing: -3px;">Duane Lester</span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 4432px; word-spacing: -3px;">Co-Owner, Editor and Lead <span class="w6"></span>Writer</span><span class="a" style="left: 663px; top: 4575px; word-spacing: -4px;">All American Blogger</span><br />http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/writer-confronts-plagiarist-on-video_b52034Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582895469508961763.post-20523637834560233882012-04-13T20:04:00.000-07:002012-04-13T20:04:35.935-07:00Happy National Poetry MonthCheck out the Favorite Poem Project; http://www.favoritepoem.org/videos.html<br />
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Ralph Fiennes and Bill Clinton are among the readers who have taped readings and musings of poems that speak to them.<br />
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"...50 short video documentaries showcases individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love. The videos have been regular features on PBS's <i>NewsHour</i> with Jim Lehrer and are a permanent part of the Library of Congress archive of recorded poetry and literature."Lisa Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06390374359549235342noreply@blogger.com0