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Year: 2005

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Money for Nothing, Books for Free

Posted on February 17, 2005 by Jeff Grim

Phil at Brandywine Books ruminates on Simon Lipskar’s essay on Bookangst 101 on the subject of “Too Many Books.” Lipskar’s essay is in t...

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Wives and Sisters by Natalie R. Collins

Posted on February 16, 2005 by Jeff Grim

Six year old Allison Jensen is witness to the abduction and murder of her friend Cindi; the assailant is a bearded man with a shotgun. That he terrorizes the gi...

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Random House Wants Ridiculous Advance Back

Posted on February 15, 2005 by Jeff Grim

This week, Random House has filed suit against P. Diddy for declining to return a $300,000 advance for an autobiography he never wrote, according to the AP. The...

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Wodehouse, the Legend

Posted on February 14, 2005 by Jeff Grim

On this day in 1975, P.G. Wodehouse, 93, died in a U.S. hospital. Patrick Kidd in today’s Times of London begins: And while the bores at the Romantic Nove...

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Blog by Hugh Hewitt

Posted on February 14, 2005 by Kevin Holtsberry

Conservative radio talk show host and author turned blogger Hugh Hewitt is what you might call a blog enthusiast. And that might be an understatement. His most ...

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Writing is an Unhappy Calling

Posted on February 13, 2005 by Jeff Grim

In a 1955 interview with The Paris Review, Georges Simenon (1903-1985) said the one bit of writing advice he found useful was from a literary editor of Le Matin...

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