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Showing posts with label New York Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York Times. Show all posts

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Life, Thought and Work

Stories and Excerpts

The New Yorker


The Modern Word (resources)

Nobel Prize.org


Interviews:

  1. The Paris Review
  2. Pete Hamill at Vanity Fair
  3. Oprah
  4. New York Times
  5. The Atlantic:
Biographies, News and Appreciations:
  1. FT.com: “[W]hat I like about you is the serious way you make up nonsense.”
  2. Time: "And when he died on Thursday in his home in Mexico City, it did not seem impossible that a man could open his mouth and songbirds would fly out." 
  3. Peter Carey
  4. Edwidge Danticat
  5. Edmund White
  6. "Nobel author Gabriel García Márquez wins 17-year legal fight over murder classic: Colombian court rules against man who claimed author used his life story for main character in Chronicle of a Death Foretold."
  7. Wikipedia
  8. Mental Floss
Quotes:

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Free, new, reduced ebook lunches

Write What You'd Love to Read 
by John (Jack) Lehman 
Free
Former editor of Rosebud

SHORT STORY: 
From FIRST Draft to FINAL Product 
by Michael Milton 
$0.99
This guy is pursuing his master's in creative writing--possibly collated notes on what he's learned thus far. No publications as yet as far as I can tell.

A. A. Attanasio series:
Nebula-, Locus-, World Fantasy-nominated author seems to be having a series of sales on many if not all of his books.

The Shadow Eater 
(The Dominions of Irth) 
$0.99

The Dragon and the Unicorn 
(The Perilous Order of Camelot) 
$1.99

Lou Aronica series:
Until Again 
$0.99
prequel novella

Blue 
$1.99
related novel

***

City of Bones 
(The Mortal Instruments) 
by Cassandra Clare 
$2.99
I had a student fond of--rabid about?--this series.

Shamanspace 
by Steve Aylett 
$3.00
a surreal novella/short novel which I found difficult because it does read like poetry. I made the mistake in trying to understand it. Better to simply allow the associative language pass by.
New
Cobweb Bride: 
The Complete Trilogy: 
(3-Book Boxed Set) 
by Vera Nazarian 
$8.99
Quite a bargain.

The New York Times: Disunion: 
Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation by The New York Times
Ted Widmer, Clay Risen, George Kalogerakis  
$14.99