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Archive for Writing

Mother's Day Gift Ideas: Writing

Written By Ron Hogan

May 8, 2012 | (0) Comments

A Character Approved book can make a perfect Mother's Day gift, but you probably wouldn't feel comfortable buying your mom--or any other special mom in your life--a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey, right? (Besides,...

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What Makes a Bestseller Most?

Written By Ron Hogan

May 3, 2012 | (0) Comments

James W. Hall teaches an English literature class at Florida International University, the likes of which you won't find at many other colleges. Each semester, he and his students read through a syllabus that's established...

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Mary Robinette Kowal's Spellbinding Glamour in Glass

Written By Ron Hogan

Apr 26, 2012 | (0) Comments

When Mary Robinette Kowal published her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, in 2010, her fellow science fiction and fantasy writers recognized it as one of the year's best, placing it on the shortlist...

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Celebrating the Edgar Rice Burroughs Centennial

Written By Ron Hogan

Apr 18, 2012 | (0) Comments

After a long period of financial struggling, with several failed business ventures behind him, Edgar Rice Burroughs decided to try his hand at pulp fiction writing, and 1912 was the year his first two novels...

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Regina O'Melveny's Book of Madness and Cures

Written By Ron Hogan

Apr 11, 2012 | (0) Comments

As a young girl, Gabriella Mondini grew up learning by the side of her physician father--a rare experience for a woman in late 16th-century Europe. As The Book of Madness and Cures opens, it has...

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Kevin Young & the Storying of American Culture

Written By Ron Hogan

Apr 4, 2012 | (0) Comments

Kevin Young is one of the leading American poets of the early 21st century, drawing inspiration from the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat (To Repel Ghosts), the imagery of film noir (Black Maria), and the rebel...

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Jonah Lehrer Unlocks the Creative Mind

Written By Ron Hogan

Mar 30, 2012 | (0) Comments

What does Bob Dylan have in common with Don Lee, a computer programmer who found a successful second career behind the bar of one of New York's hippest watering holes? They're both cited as case...

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Spring Break: Travel as a Way of Finding Yourself

Written By Ron Hogan

Mar 20, 2012 | (0) Comments

Spring break getaways aren't always about indulging our hedonistic side. Sometimes, we want to take some time off from our ordinary lives and recharge ourselves emotionally or spiritually. Two new Character Approved memoirs show us...

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