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September 3, 2010 0

10 Best Worst Lines From The Bulwer-Lytton Award

By Admin in Author, Ten, Writing

Post by Jason L. In 1930, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote, not an award-winning, but an award-creating bad line. He opened his novel Paul Clifford with the words “It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which [...]

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August 13, 2010 0

10 Unreliable Narrators We Believe Anyway

By Admin in Character, Novel, Ten

Unreliable narrators that have manipulated their way into our good graces.

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August 1, 2010 3

7 Literary Authors Who Went Audio

By Admin in Lyric, Seven

To B-flat or not to B-flat: these seven literary authors now appear in modern music. Awesome.

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January 29, 2010 1

Apple joins the eBook debate

By Admin in Uncategorized

The iPad is better than the Kindle because it displays ebooks like real books.

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October 12, 2009 0

Colfer proves that the Author may not be dead

By Admin in Author

When Roland Barthes said ‘the author is dead’ it seems Douglas Adams, like Ian Fleming, took him literally, much to the disappointment of their publishers. Why let a good thing die with the author? Living writers take up the reigns of their late contemporaries to continue the story posthumously. Not unheard of, the idea of [...]

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