Stephen King delivers a book of short stories at NPR's Book Section. Lizzie Skurnick gives some descriptions of the tales, and you can read an excerpt of Just After Sunset there.
If it rains this weekend or if you're planning some quiet time regardless of the weather, note that the new Dec/Jan issue of Book Forum has been posted online.
From a quick glance, contents include:
A review of a dystopian thriller called Noir by Olivier Paulvert, which takes place in France some years in the future, written by Lee Rourke.
And a review of The Elfish Gene by Mark Barrowcliffe, which is a memoir of the author's youth, playing Dungeons & Dragons, written by Paul La Farge.
You should be able to find something interesting there.
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Thursday, November 13
IT'S BECAUSE
OF THE SPITTOONS (2#) -
The latest in a continuing series . . .
More Tribune & Sentinel problems:
"Weitman says the Sentinel has several hundred fewer subscribers now than it did before its redesign. Another Tribune newspaper, the Fort Lauderdale-based Sun Sentinel, has lost even more subscribers since its makeover in August."
You can dress a bear in a tuxedo, but
you can't make him dance like Fred Astaire.
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# A statistical study has concluded that only
19 percent of the featured posts on Huffpo are by women.
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More Tribune & Sentinel problems:
"Weitman says the Sentinel has several hundred fewer subscribers now than it did before its redesign. Another Tribune newspaper, the Fort Lauderdale-based Sun Sentinel, has lost even more subscribers since its makeover in August."
You can dress a bear in a tuxedo, but
you can't make him dance like Fred Astaire.
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# A statistical study has concluded that only
19 percent of the featured posts on Huffpo are by women.
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Wednesday, November 12
MEDIA HAPPENS (4#) -
Terminal Velocity: Legacy News Organizations are entering a devastating period for the next couple of years, The Guardian Online chief Emily Bell anticipates. She gives them some good advice, which most American "news outlets" probably won't heed.
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NPR: National Public Radio has appointed Vivian Schiller, general manager of The New York Times' Web site, as its new president and chief executive.
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# Portrait of the new mayor of Jerusalem:
Born in 1959... gained degrees in computer science and business management... before going on to found an anti-virus software company.
:: Nir Barkat is a high-tech kinda guy.
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# Pranksters distributed a spoof
:: NY Times locally this morning.
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NPR: National Public Radio has appointed Vivian Schiller, general manager of The New York Times' Web site, as its new president and chief executive.
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# Portrait of the new mayor of Jerusalem:
Born in 1959... gained degrees in computer science and business management... before going on to found an anti-virus software company.
:: Nir Barkat is a high-tech kinda guy.
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# Pranksters distributed a spoof
:: NY Times locally this morning.
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SoFlo: DEVELOPER NABBED (2#) -
Thanos Papalexis, a millionaire Palm Beach area real estate developer has been arrested and is to be extradited to the UK on suspicion of murder.
According to law enforcement sources, the victim was tortured and his body soaked in paint-thinner in order to throw police bloodhounds off his trail. The corpse was then dumped in a trench at an auto repair garage.
Mr Papalexis was apprehended by federal agents
while he was eating pizza in West Palm Beach.
:: Mail :: - - - ::Guardian::
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According to law enforcement sources, the victim was tortured and his body soaked in paint-thinner in order to throw police bloodhounds off his trail. The corpse was then dumped in a trench at an auto repair garage.
Mr Papalexis was apprehended by federal agents
while he was eating pizza in West Palm Beach.
:: Mail :: - - - ::Guardian::
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Tuesday, November 11
Mez: 100 DEPOSITIONS -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
What follows is my best understanding of
the Google robot (machine) translation
of the Italian newspaper article cited below:
Erica Pontini reports that Mr Mignini and his AP expect to submit nearly a hundred depositions for witnesses at the Court of Assizes where the Dec 4 trial will be conducted. Some who have been following this case have previously expressed an expectation of about 20 witnesses.
The Knox Defense wants to ban photography[?] in the courtroom; the Kercher Family's legal representative Maresca prefers a closed-door trial to protect Meredith's modesty.
The Prosecution seems to view the murder as an act of volition - a willful act. I would suggest an alternate possibility: that it may be the product of a disturbed and disordered mind. An element of insanity may have occurred in this situation, and this may be why the Knox Defense wants to ban photography - in case his client breaks down on the stand, he would prefer to avoid publicizing such a spectacle.
:: La Nazione ::
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What follows is my best understanding of
the Google robot (machine) translation
of the Italian newspaper article cited below:
Erica Pontini reports that Mr Mignini and his AP expect to submit nearly a hundred depositions for witnesses at the Court of Assizes where the Dec 4 trial will be conducted. Some who have been following this case have previously expressed an expectation of about 20 witnesses.
The Knox Defense wants to ban photography[?] in the courtroom; the Kercher Family's legal representative Maresca prefers a closed-door trial to protect Meredith's modesty.
The Prosecution seems to view the murder as an act of volition - a willful act. I would suggest an alternate possibility: that it may be the product of a disturbed and disordered mind. An element of insanity may have occurred in this situation, and this may be why the Knox Defense wants to ban photography - in case his client breaks down on the stand, he would prefer to avoid publicizing such a spectacle.
:: La Nazione ::
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Monday, November 10
SoFlo: BRUMMIE IN MIAMI -
Some are starting to voice suspicions that the Birmingham Mail reporter who flew across the Atlantic to to help the Obama election campaign and then made a drunken YouTube hit video may be pulling our leg.
Could this actually be a covert promotional
campaign of some sort, Media Monkey wonders.
Maybe the video was originally intended to be his audition for the newly-open role of Dr Who, but he lost his focus in the bottle.
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Could this actually be a covert promotional
campaign of some sort, Media Monkey wonders.
Maybe the video was originally intended to be his audition for the newly-open role of Dr Who, but he lost his focus in the bottle.
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QAEDA HATE COMPLAINTS (3#) -
Residents of Karachi have been complaining lately that they feel threatened by the encroachment of militant extremists. Sometimes they receive a sympathetic hearing about this issue, but sometimes their complaints are brushed off as baseless paranoia. They don't intend to take it supinely.
This time their complaint is that Karachi is being flooded with CD's, pamphlets and other propaganda which they regard as unacceptable hate material. In this article, Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah attempts to trace the origin and route of this "macabre brainwashing" media. The police have already warned that they "are determined to crush all those involved in the business."
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Qaeda terror suspect and radical cleric
Abu Qatada has been re-incarcerated.
:: tgraph :: -- :: mail ::
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This time their complaint is that Karachi is being flooded with CD's, pamphlets and other propaganda which they regard as unacceptable hate material. In this article, Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah attempts to trace the origin and route of this "macabre brainwashing" media. The police have already warned that they "are determined to crush all those involved in the business."
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Qaeda terror suspect and radical cleric
Abu Qatada has been re-incarcerated.
:: tgraph :: -- :: mail ::
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Bookish: LEGACY OF CANE (3#) -
Frank Alastair Mackey is the subject of an essay by Gaiutra Bahadur, who provides some interesting context, background and perspective to the Booker Prize and the company behind it.
An essay in which the tapestry of History has woven the heritage and destinies of the subject Mackey and the writer Bahadur together into a fateful symmetry that is a wee gem.
# A portrait of Jared Kushner, the new
owner of the NY Observer, by Tom Teodorczuk.
# Glitterati: The front door manager of the Groucho Club in Soho, Bernie Katz, has written a book which is being published by Quartet.
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An essay in which the tapestry of History has woven the heritage and destinies of the subject Mackey and the writer Bahadur together into a fateful symmetry that is a wee gem.
# A portrait of Jared Kushner, the new
owner of the NY Observer, by Tom Teodorczuk.
# Glitterati: The front door manager of the Groucho Club in Soho, Bernie Katz, has written a book which is being published by Quartet.
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Mez: NEW WITNESSES (3#) -
Meredith Kercher Murder Case -
The Italian Press is reporting that three new witnesses have emerged. The Journal of Umbria is being given credit for the original scoop, but the prosecutor's office in Perugia is being very close-mouthed about the matter.
New elements in the attempts to reconstruct the scenario of the crime include: an old Peugeot parked in the cottage yard. And at least one other new witness in the vicinity claims to have heard Meredith's "harrowing" [straziante] scream.
:: ASCA it :: -- [fonda] -- [unione]
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The Italian Press is reporting that three new witnesses have emerged. The Journal of Umbria is being given credit for the original scoop, but the prosecutor's office in Perugia is being very close-mouthed about the matter.
New elements in the attempts to reconstruct the scenario of the crime include: an old Peugeot parked in the cottage yard. And at least one other new witness in the vicinity claims to have heard Meredith's "harrowing" [straziante] scream.
:: ASCA it :: -- [fonda] -- [unione]
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LIT TRANSNATIONAL (6#) -
Is this the much sought-after
successor to the Afghan Kite bestseller?
Afghan-born writer Atiq Rahmi has won the
French Prix Goncourt for his novel Stone of Patience.
:: iht :: -- [bloom] -- [france24]
# FOE: Muslims living in Europe need protection from extremists who threaten their Freedom of Speech. A UK think tank says that governments have "a duty to ensure free speech for all citizens." This seems to be a reaction to blasphemy intimidations.
# Best-selling author and RC priest Andrew Greeley was seriously injured in a taxicab accident over the weekend and is in critical but stable condition at a Chicago-area hospital.
# The funky literary Hotel Chelsea in NYC needs to be updated. Londoner Andrew Tilley was somehow chosen to be the new manager who will have the responsibility for preserving its history and personality while updating it.
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successor to the Afghan Kite bestseller?
Afghan-born writer Atiq Rahmi has won the
French Prix Goncourt for his novel Stone of Patience.
:: iht :: -- [bloom] -- [france24]
# FOE: Muslims living in Europe need protection from extremists who threaten their Freedom of Speech. A UK think tank says that governments have "a duty to ensure free speech for all citizens." This seems to be a reaction to blasphemy intimidations.
# Best-selling author and RC priest Andrew Greeley was seriously injured in a taxicab accident over the weekend and is in critical but stable condition at a Chicago-area hospital.
# The funky literary Hotel Chelsea in NYC needs to be updated. Londoner Andrew Tilley was somehow chosen to be the new manager who will have the responsibility for preserving its history and personality while updating it.
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Sunday, November 9
DEATH PLANS (2#) -
This weekend Austria commemorates
the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
"The financial prosperity of much of the Austrian establishment today is based on money and property stolen 70 years ago," said Stefan Templ.
:: Shards of Kristallnacht by Adam LeBor
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"A complete set of the original construction plans for the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have been found in a Berlin flat, according to Germany's Bild newspaper." [photos included]
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the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht.
"The financial prosperity of much of the Austrian establishment today is based on money and property stolen 70 years ago," said Stefan Templ.
:: Shards of Kristallnacht by Adam LeBor
* * * * * *
"A complete set of the original construction plans for the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have been found in a Berlin flat, according to Germany's Bild newspaper." [photos included]
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Bookish: ACROSS THE POND (4#) -
The pattern of her DNA stretches across a trail of 15 years and three countries. Ned Temko writes about the real-life search for a female serial killer who is currently loose in Germany.
# Andrew Brown writes an intriguing blog entry at CiF about Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, which he describes as one of the most remarkable novels of the last 30 years.
# Priest of Evil by Matti Joensuu is given a brief review by Cathi Unsworth, who describes it as: "A work of outstanding originality." It's about a killer in the Helsinki subway system.
# Mystery Reviews by Marcel Berlins of:
:::: Portobello by Ruth Rendell
:::: Rough Weather by Robert B Parker
:::: The Maze of Cadiz by Aly Monroe.
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# Andrew Brown writes an intriguing blog entry at CiF about Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, which he describes as one of the most remarkable novels of the last 30 years.
# Priest of Evil by Matti Joensuu is given a brief review by Cathi Unsworth, who describes it as: "A work of outstanding originality." It's about a killer in the Helsinki subway system.
# Mystery Reviews by Marcel Berlins of:
:::: Portobello by Ruth Rendell
:::: Rough Weather by Robert B Parker
:::: The Maze of Cadiz by Aly Monroe.
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