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Archive for Writing

Top Five: Summer Debut Novels

Written By Ron Hogan

Jun 25, 2012 | (0) Comments

Summer can be a great time for new experiences, for trying things you've never done before. And that applies to reading as well--so here are five novels by new writers worth taking a chance on....

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Be Sure to Accept Anne Cherian's Invitation

Written By Ron Hogan

Jun 19, 2012 | (0) Comments

When Vikram, Lali, Jay, and Frances met at UCLA more than twenty years ago, they'd all come to America from different parts of India to make a new life for themselves. Now Vic's oldest son...

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Remembering Ray Bradbury

Written By Ron Hogan

Jun 11, 2012 | (0) Comments

Ray Bradbury was probably the most widely read science fiction writer in the United States. If you were born after 1953, when Fahrenheit 451 was first published, there's a good chance you read it in...

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Robert McCammon's Early American James Bond

Written By Ron Hogan

Jun 4, 2012 | (0) Comments

Matthew Corbett is a professional "problem solver" in colonial Manhattan. He's not quite a private investigator, because the cases he gets himself involved in tend to be bigger, and more bizarre, than simple murders--and The...

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Touring the Solar System with Kim Stanley Robinson

Written By Ron Hogan

May 29, 2012 | (0) Comments

"Take an asteroid at least thirty kilometers on its long axis," Kim Stanley Robinson suggests early on in 2312. "Any type will do--solid rock, rock and ice, metallic, even ice balls, although each presents different...

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Alyson Hagy's Winning Boleto

Written By Ron Hogan

May 22, 2012 | (0) Comments

William Testerman is 23 years old, living on his family's ranch in Wyoming after a job at a stable in Texas that ended on a bad note. "His father thought he was too much of...

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Toni Morrison Brings Us Home

Written By Ron Hogan

May 15, 2012 | (0) Comments

In late April, the White House announced this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the United States government can bestow upon civilians. The 13 men and women recognized by President...

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Remembering Maurice Sendak

Written By USA Character Blog

May 9, 2012 | (0) Comments

The world feels a little less wild today with the sad news that one of the greatest storytellers of our time has passed. Character Approved children's author Maurice Sendak died today in Connecticut at age...

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