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Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

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Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

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Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night

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A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

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He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories

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The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism

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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022

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To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir

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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

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The Best American Short Stories 2020

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First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump

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Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany

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Suppressed: Confessions of a Former New York Times Washington Correspondent

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Dark Days, Bright Nights: Surviving the Las Vegas Storm Drains

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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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The Silence of the Lambs: 25th Anniversary Edition

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Did I Kill You?: A Thriller Novel

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When No One Is Watching: A Thriller

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The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths: The Best New Original Stories of the Genre

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

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Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

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Episode 59: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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How NY Times Bestselling Biographer Laurence Leamer Writes: #PodcastersForJustice Award-winning journalist and bestselling biographer, Laurence Leamer, spoke to me about getting banned from Mar a Lago, why book proposals are a con job, and Truman Capote's Women (and terminal writer's block). Laurence is best...

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Amanda Smith, “Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson” (Knopf, 2011): “When your grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page.” That was the Medill family editorial policy and Eleanor Medill “Cissy” Patterson embraced it enthusiastically. The granddaughter of the Chicago Tribune‘s founder,

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Episode 5: Pride and Prejudice

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Kurt Andersen (Author & Editor: Spy Magazine, New York, Studio360, more): We’ve always had a thing for magazine launches. They’re filled with drama and melodrama, people behaving with passion and conviction, and people ... misbehaving. Anything to get that first issue onto the stands and into the hands of readers. Some new ventures seem to sneak in the back door. Who saw Wired or Fast Company coming? Others are to the manner born, and from the most elite print parents. But, even with that pedigree they never gain traction, never display the scrappiness and experimentation that we’ve come to expect from anything new. (You know who you are). But then, one day, along comes The Greatest Startup in the History of Magazine Startups. A magazine that dares to mercilessly, and humorously, vilify high society. The one that big time journalists pretend to ignore but were first to the newsstand each month to grab their copy. The one that created packaging conceits: Separated at Birth, Private L

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Rock N Roll Librarian: Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff by Mike Nesmith: One of the four Monkees was actually a futurist. Did you know that he helped birth MTV? Did you know he put together one of the first country rock outfits of the late 1960's early '70's? How about the fact he wrote 'Different Drum' famously covered by Linda Ronstadt. Did you know that Mike Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper?   Shelly and Christian discuss this extremely interesting autobiography, 'Infinite Tuesdays: An Autobiographical Riff by Mike Nesmith.' Michael Nesmith’s eclectic, electric life spans his star-making role on The Monkees, his invention of the music video, and his critical contributions to movies, comedy, and the world of virtual reality.  Above all, his is a seeker’s story, a pilgrimage in search of a set of principles to live by. That search took Nesmith from a childhood in Dallas, where his single mother Bette invented Liquid Paper, to the set of The Monkees in Los Angeles; to t

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Chapter 118: Catherine Hernandez poses for positivity with pride and presence: Do you ever have a book go viral through your family?   Your aunt reads it and tells everyone at dinner. The copy gets passed along. A few more dog ears show up. The spine gets cracked. And a year later half a dozen people have read it?  ...

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Hernan Diaz on ‘Trust’ and Money in Fiction: Diaz talks about his second novel, and Paul Fischer discusses “The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures.”

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Episode 85: “Silas Marner” by George Eliot, Ch. 4-9: On today’s episode of The Literary Life podcast, Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks continue their discussion of George Eliot’s , covering chapters 4-9. They talk about the problems facing the Cass family and their tense...

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254: Robert Kurson - How To Be A Master Storyteller: Rocket Men, The Most Daring Mission In NASA History: The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk - Episode 250: Robert Kurson - How To Be A Master Storyteller: Rocket Men, The Most Daring Mission In NASA History Robert Kurson is an American author, best known for his 2004 bestselling book, Shadow Divers, the

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CAITLIN ROTHER TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Caitlin Rother: In the late 1980s, Caitlin Rother wrote for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in Massachusetts. She returned to California and went to work as a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News after working a year as a freelancer for the Los...

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Mothers: Alberta King: Alberta King (1904-1974) was a pillar of her Atlanta community, and a teacher to the next generation. Her wisdom laid the foundation for the activism of one of the most renowned civil rights leaders of the 1960s: her son, Martin Luther King Jr.

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Strange Fruit #79: Trans Women's Wisdom in "Letters for My Sisters": "If you could write just one letter to someone beginning transition or your younger pre-transition self, what would you say?" That's the question at the heart of a new book called "Letters for My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom in Retrospect." This week we spoke with the book's editors, Andrea James and Deanne Thornton, about the wisdom assembled in the book—and asked them to share their own advice for their pre-transition sisters. Andrea, who created the groundbreaking website Transsexual Roadmap in 1996, said we all go through transitions all the time. "Every day we're on a journey," she said. "We're always in transition and we're always traveling. It's important to take a moment each day and really appreciate all the wonderful things that are going on around you." Deanne Thornton said the honesty in some of the letters is in line with some of the trans women who have guided her along her own path. "Every trans woman I

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The Active Voice: E. Jean Carroll, Mary Trump and Jen Taub are bringing serialization into the mainstream

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Episode 407 — Leigh Stein & Lux Alptraum: Leigh Stein and Lux Alptraum are the guests. They are co-directors, with Jenny Lumet, of a non-profit organization called Out of the Binders. It is devoted to advancing the careers of women and gender non-conforming writers. Had a...

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Chapter 58: Author David Mitchell on designing dizzily dazzling dreams: 3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author...

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Studying the Pipeline to Politics for Women: An interview with Heather Lende

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18. East West Street by Philippe Sands: East West Street is a memoir by prominent British barrister Philippe Sands. It’s a history of atrocity combined with a relentless search for the truth, with Sands digging deep, into both his own family history and the legal framework that eventually...

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268-The Great Impostor: Ferdinand Demara impersonated 30 people in 20 years.

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TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Volume 2-Mike Rothmiller: They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s. And now these stories and that of many others are brought together in their original form in a two-volume set: TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES: ​Serial Killers, Outlaws, and Justice ... Real...

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309-The 'Grain of Salt' Episode: Two colorful stories from the 1920s.

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The Revival of Romantic Comedies with Curtis Sittenfeld: Emma has the pleasure of chatting with NYT Bestselling author, Curtis Sittenfeld, about her new book, Romantic Comedy!

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ continued: With Margaret Atwood’s sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” forthcoming, a look at the novel’s impact, including Ann Dowd, who plays Aunt Lydia on the Hulu adaptation, and how Louise Erdrich and Megan Hunter also wrote about pregnancy in their dystopian novels.

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Episode 62: The Literary Friendship of Dorothy and Jack with Gina Dalfonzo: On this week’s episode of The Literary Life, our hosts Angelina, Thomas and Cindy have a special guest on the podcast. Gina Dalfonzo is an author whose work has been featured in First Things, The Atlantic, Christianity Today, The Weekly Standard,...