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Reviewing Books

I just submitted my newest review to Sacramento and San Francisco Book Review: It is The Face in the Mirror: Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age, Edited by Victoria Zackheim.

November 19, 2009
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John Irving says

The reader must be afraid for someone in order for a story to succeed. We don’t get to choose our obsessions; obsessions choose us.

November 9, 2009
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John Irving is a master storyteller and I am his biggest fan

If you are a friend of mine, you know that on October 15 I finished reading the advance proof of  Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving for review. I loved the novel for its characters, of course, and also for its meta-fictional qualities.

November 5, 2009
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Publishing in a dollar-driven market

With Sara From Alaska by Shushannah Walshe released today, and Going Rogue: An American Life, by Sarah Palin being released next week, it makes, at my count, 13 books on the subject available to Amazon customers.

November 3, 2009
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On Getting a Late Start, by Barb Johnson

“I came to realize that the feeling isn’t about age so much as it is about finally paying attention to what it is you really want in life. And that realization requires us to set aside our assumptions about how life works and what we should be doing,

November 1, 2009
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