Day: January 10, 2018

Meredith serves up Hungry Girl magazine

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Meredith serves up Hungry Girl magazine

Lillien, a leader in the better-for-you food space, is the author of 12 best-selling cookbooks, six of which debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list. “I couldn't be more excited about this new venture and the opportunity to bring the Hungry Girl audience fresh content in a completely new
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'Ask Me Tees' Help Promote In-Person Conversations

As an avid social media user, Ayanna Smith realized she spent a lot of time deabting on important topics. Smith founded “Ask Me Tees” to spark in-person conversations about any topic. She speaks with Tommy McFly and tells him her best sellers are more approachable topics. (Published 2 minutes
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Pulse Publisher Testifies on Newspaper Legal Notice Statute

AB 731 would allow the Pulse to compete for legal notices in 18 of Door County's municipalities, but the publication would not be able to compete against the “bona fide” paid circulation publication for the Sturgeon Bay or County of Door legal notices, and, as publisher David Eliot told the committee, the
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Stossel: NY Strangles Small Business

Kamal Saleh runs a small store in New York City. He was recently given a summons to appear in court for violating one of New York's many rules. His crime was selling cigars… 11 cents too cheaply. It's not often people complain about things being too cheap. But New York City says stores may not sell
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F+W Fires Top Management, Names Interim CEO

The board of directors of F+W Media has fired the publisher's entire upper management team, replacing them with Greg Osberg, who has been named interim CEO. Gone from the publisher are CEO Tom Beusse and lieutenants Joe Siebert and Joe Romello. Beusse was hired in January 2016 to
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Arts Scene

The Del Norte Association for Cultural Awareness (DNACA) begins a new creative writing workshop for veterans and their families from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturdays through March 3 at the Del Norte Senior Center, 1765 Northcrest Drive, Crescent City. For more information and to register, contact DNACA at
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Fire and Fury is flying off shelves with publisher rushing to print 1million more copies (and the …

Book stores are having a hard time keeping the explosive exposé, 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,' on shelves, as the publisher rushes to get another 1million copies printed. The tome, which was originally due out on Tuesday, was bumped up to this past Friday for official release after the
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Trump Lawyer Sues BuzzFeed for Publishing Dossier…BuzzFeed Responds

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Trump Lawyer Sues BuzzFeed for Publishing Dossier…BuzzFeed Responds

Fusion GPS is the political intelligence firm that compiled the dossier. The readout with Simpson revealed that one person had been killed in the publishing of the dossier. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who chairs the committee, condemned Feinstein for releasing the previously confidential transcripts via
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Trump lawyer sues Buzzfeed for publishing Steele dossier

A personal lawyer for President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday night that he has filed a defamation action against the website Buzzfeed for publishing a 35-page dossier alleging that Donald Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia. The lawyer, Michael Cohen, denied any personal role in
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NDWBF 2018 opens with a message for climate change

Keeping in sync with the theme, GBO also presented a book collection on nature. Total 50 original German titles from 26 publishers and their English translations from 53 publishers in the US, the UK, and the Commonwealth were a part of the feature 'Books on Tour'. This selection demonstrated the
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Smashwords Was NOT Hacked…But Change Your Password

Self-publishing platform recently sent out an announcement to its authors containing the CEO's year-ahead predictions, but if you didn't pause to open that and read it, you might have missed the second item…and it's pretty important. First, if you're one of the authors who pulled their books out of other
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The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing

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The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing

Best-selling author Marilyn Ross and publishing expert Sue Collier show you how to make your own success – whether you're a published author, entrepreneur, corporation, professional, or absolute newcomer to writing. In this expanded and completely revised 5th edition of the “bible” of self-publishing
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Publisher attitudes toward platforms, in 4 charts

The tussle between publishers and platforms shows little sign of abating. Publishers want the reach that platforms afford and a fair reward for filling them with content. On top of this, publishers increasingly want the platforms to take more responsibility for their role in hosting inappropriate content.
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Amazon Launches Ad Marketplace in Europe

Amazon logo Amazon announced it has launched a new “transparent” ad marketplace in Europe. It's tempting publishers by giving them some benefits unavailable through other ad platforms, keying in on simplification and better data. Amazon's cloud-based platform provides publishers “full visibility into
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'Fire and Fury' book in high demand

Michael Wolff's new book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” immediately shot to the top of Amazon's best-sellers list, where it's held since last Wednesday when the first excerpts of the book were released online, according to The Associated Press. The publisher, Henry Holt and Co.,
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?Colorado Springs Police no longer publishing annual transparency reports

For more than a decade, the Colorado Springs Police Department posted its annual transparency report online for anyone to view. The data included information on homicides and various crime statistics. Last year, News 5 Investigates discovered the police department stopped posting those reports
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Imagine Dragons creative writing entry by Ady Lam

We asked our readers to write a short piece of creative writing related to dragons. Here is one of the entries. It has not been edited.
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Ig publishing

Ig publishing. Established by the Inspector General Act of 1988, Inspector General U. Brooklyn indie publisher Ig Publishing plans to Ig Publishing fiction, creative nonfiction [prnt] “The work of being a writer involves a continual examination of one's work, one's own self, as well as one's biases,
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It might finally be time to get readers to pay for website content

The answer is no surprise: like the majority of the online and offline publishing industry, revenues were flattening. Our business model comprised mostly of sponsored listings, that is, companies or agencies paying us to achieve volume traffic through to their campaign. This was almost always on a
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'We're marching in the same direction': Facebook is emphasizing Groups, and publishers are …

Publishers may be pulling away from Facebook in favor of keeping readers on their own sites, but they're warming to Facebook Groups. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg overhauled Facebook's mission last year to focus on fostering community, touting Groups in the process. Naturally, publishers are
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Problems with date format when publishing from des…

Hi guys Since the most recent update (I think) I'm having issues when publishing from Desktop to Service. On Desktop my drop down slicer date looks.
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Fix Your Flying Geese

Do you have piecing problems? Are you Flying Geese too small or distorted? Patty Murphy comes to the rescue with this diagnosis from her book, Piecing Makeover. PROBLEM My Flying Geese blocks are distorted and will be too small when I trim them. What you don't want:
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Lonely Planet Kids Expands in US

Lonely Planet began publishing children's books with a packager in 2011, and launched its own children's imprint in 2014. The Lonely Planet Kids list now approaches 100 titles. Piers Pickard, managing director of publishing in London, told PW, “Our sales are really good and they're growing each year.
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Want to write, join us!

Welcome back to Duke everyone! As some of our beloved university's 15,000 students head back into the safety and warmth (relatively speaking of course) of the Duke bubble, change seems to be in the air in the spirit of the new year. On East, the sound of old, first-semester first-year friendships
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1917 Bestsellers: A Conversation with Linda Aragoni

For the past two years, we have checked in with consumate reader Linda Aragoni of the Great Penformances blog for her appraisal of the bestseller list from a century ago. (See 2015 and 2016 respectively). This year we continue the tradition, finding out about the books that topped the list in 1917.
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Donald Trump's lawyer sues Buzzfeed for publishing Russia dossier

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Donald Trump's lawyer sues Buzzfeed for publishing Russia dossier

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy. His lawyer was mentioned 15 times in the Russia dossier. Evan Vucci. by Jennifer Jacobs. Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen sued Buzzfeed Inc. on Tuesday for defamation over allegations about
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National Writers Series Announces 2018 Season

Don't miss New Yorker staff writer David Grann, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z. His new nonfiction book, Killers of the Flowers Moon, revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of Osage Indians were murdered in cold blood. The book is ranked as best book or
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Universal Music Publishing Group Names Marni Condro SVP of Film & Television

Universal Music Publishing Group has named Marni Condro to senior VP of film & television creative synchronization for the U.S., effective immediately. In her new role, Condro will oversee placements of the company's music catalog in film, trailers, television, TV marketing campaigns, sports and video
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“It Can Happen to Anyone”: Former Vascular Solutions CEO Howard Root Talks About DOJ's …

'An Innocent Man' by John Grisham is probably the closest thing,” says Root of his story, which he recounts in a self-published book, 'Cardiac Arrest,' released last year. At the center of Root's story is a product called the Vari-Lase Short Kit, which is used to treat saphenous varicose veins. During the
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Trump's personal attorney slaps BuzzFeed with a lawsuit for publishing Trump-Russia dossier

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, has reportedly filed a defamation suit against BuzzFeed for publishing the unsubstantiated collection of memos known as the Trump-Russia dossier last year. Cohen is also reportedly suing Fusion GPS — the intelligence firm that
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Fire, Fury And Overreaction

The president and his team even took the extraordinary measure — and one cannot stress the word “extraordinary” enough — of threatening to sue the publisher to prevent the book's publication. In other words, they made it painfully clear to each and every one of us that they did not want any of us
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Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sues Buzzfeed for publishing Steele dossier

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Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sues Buzzfeed for publishing Steele dossier

A personal lawyer for President Donald Trump filed a defamation action against the website Buzzfeed on Tuesday for publishing a 35-page dossier alleging that Donald Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia. The lawyer, Michael Cohen, provided NBC News with a copy of the lawsuit,
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Is the 'Pee Tape' Dossier True? Trump Lawyer Files Defamation Suit Against Buzzfeed for …

Buzzfeed News obtained a copy of the dossier and opted to publish it in January 2016. Writing in The New York Times Tuesday, Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith strongly defended the online publication's decision to publish the dossier. “A year of government inquiries and blockbuster journalism has made
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's attorney Michael Cohen is suing Buzzfeed for publishing the infamous …

President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is suing Buzzfeed for publishing the infamous Russia dossier last year. The dossier, which alleged collusion between Trump staff including Cohen and Russian agents, was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. The ex-MI6 agent produced the file
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Canada Strikes Deal With HarperCollins Over E-Book Pricing

Law360, Los Angeles (January 9, 2018, 9:50 PM EST) — Canada's Competition Bureau said Tuesday it reached a deal with HarperCollins over alleged price-fixing in the country's e-books market, ending the regulator's investigation into allegedly anti-competitive deals between the publisher and its
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Concordia English professors accused of sexual misconduct

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Concordia English professors accused of sexual misconduct

In her essay, Healey alleged she was in a toxic, unhealthy relationship with one of her creative writing professors during her first year as a Concordia student. Healey wrote she was 19 when the relationship began, while the professor was 34. According to Healey, “while the relationship was consensual,
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Behind 'The Post': A Pentagon Papers Timeline (Exclusive Videos)

This is one of a series of stories and videos in which TheWrap explores the background, history and repercussions of the events depicted in the film “The Post,” from the commission and leak of the top-secret Vietnam chronicle the Pentagon Papers to the legal battle over their publication. By 1967, the
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BuzzFeed's Ben Smith Has No Regrets About Publishing Trump-Russia Dossier: 'Unquestionably …

A year after the infamous publishing of the “dossier” relating to President Donald Trump and his alleged involvement with Russia, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith has no regrets — despite the document containing pages of unverified salacious info. In fact, while the digital outlet was referred to as
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SAGE Publishing acquires journal portfolio from international independent publisher, Wichtig

London, UK, January 9, 2018— SAGE Publishing, one of the world's leading independent and academic publishers today announced the purchase of the full portfolio of journals from the international, independent STM publisher, Wichtig. The acquisition marks a significant milestone in SAGE's science,
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Concordia says allegations of sexual harassment 'serious'

The president of Concordia University in Montreal says that recent allegations about sexual harassment in the university's creative-writing department “are serious, and will be treated seriously.” The immediate prompt for Alan Shepard's statement to the university community on Monday was a long blog
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Fusion GPS Lawyer: 'Somebody's Already Been Killed' as a Result of Trump Dossier's Publishing

Publication of the Trump dossier has led to someone's death, a lawyer for Fusion GPS, the firm that produced the dossier, said during testimony released by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Tuesday. The testimony, from a closed interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee in August 2017, revealed
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Concordia president disturbed by allegations against members of creative writing program

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Concordia president disturbed by allegations against members of creative writing program

President Alan Shepard has issued a statement in which he described as “serious” the allegations by blogger Mike Spry, which go beyond Concordia. Shepard said the post makes specific allegations as well as general allegations of an abusive climate in the department's creative writing program.
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Publisher cancels book by Tennessee pastor accused of sexual assault

MEMPHIS — A Christian publisher says it is canceling the publication of a book by a Memphis pastor who admitted to a sexual encounter with a 17-year-old high school senior in Texas 20 years ago. Bethany House announced Monday afternoon that it is canceling the scheduled July publication of Andy
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Competition Bureau reaches settlement with HarperCollins in ebooks case

The implementation of the publisher's consent agreement is pending the resolution of Kobo's challenge of the January 2017 agreements. As part of the terms of the agreement, HarperCollins will also make a $150,000 charitable donation in ebooks and print books to promote reading in Canada.
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Readers prefer paperback to e-books at World Book Fair

“Around 12 lakh books were sold in the last one year,” said Baldev Sharma, Chairman of National Book Trust (NBT). He said that it was more important that people read, not what medium they choose to read on. However, readers appeared to be more attracted to big publishers like Oxford and Penguin
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BuzzFeed editor defends publishing 'Steele dossier' one year later

BuzzFeed News had faced criticism for publishing the dossier last year because of the unverified claims included in the document. The dossier has played a central part in the investigations into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election. The Washington Post reported last year that
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Amazon Publishers Services launches TAM in Europe

Amazon has launched the Amazon Publishers Services (APS) Transparent Ad Marketplace in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. It offers digital content owners and app developers a cloud-based, server-side header bidding solution that helps increase their ad revenues, while improving user
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Together We Rise

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Together We Rise

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Women's March, the organizers and Conde Nast have created Together We Rise, a gorgeously designed full-color book offering an unprecedented, front-row seat to one of the most galvanizing movements in American history. Women's March will share
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Google revamps mobile publishing service to solve URL trust issues

Google has announced what it claims is a solution to the problem of its fast loading accelerated mobile pages (AMP) appearing without the publishers' URL visible to readers. The new changes mean linked pages will now appear under publishers' URLs instead of the google.com/amp URL, solving
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First “How I MADE It” of 2018 Kicks Off With a Literary Theme

The show-and-tell event series, How I MADE It, is back for the new year with a literary angle featuring local writers Steven Deeble and Nancy Lynée Woo. To be hosted at MADE by Millworks this Friday at 7:00PM, attendees can expect to gain insight into the creative writing process of accomplished
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UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program Faculty read at Malaprops Jan. 21

Faculty members in UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program (GSWP) will present a free public reading at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. … semester courses for UNC Asheville's GSWP, which offers workshops for writers of all levels in poetry, prose, creative nonfiction and marketing of one's works.
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Canada's Competition Watchdog Settles With HarperCollins

The deal ends litigation against HarperCollins, owned by News Corp, after Canada's Competition Bureau charged that it and other publishers entered into distribution agreements with individual retailers that eliminated retail price competition on ebooks, most notably by pushing up prices that
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Christian Publisher Cancels Marriage Book by Pastor Andy Savage After He Admits to Sexually …

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Christian Publisher Cancels Marriage Book by Pastor Andy Savage After He Admits to Sexually …

“Bethany House and Baker Publishing Group have cancelled publication of the Andy Savage book The Ridiculously Good Marriage. It may remain on various retail web sites for a short time until those sites update,” the company said in a statement on Twitter Monday afternoon that has since been widely
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Is this plugin only sending one email per dayt after publishing more items

Is this plugin only sending one email per dayt after publishing more items. KeesD. (@keesd). 16 minutes ago. Hi,. Like this plugin. Wondering if there is only one email sent per day after publishing more than one post. Cheers, KeesD. You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Email Subscribers &
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Radiohead's Music Publisher Denies Lana Del Rey Lawsuit

“It's clear that the verses of 'Get Free' use musical elements found in the verses of 'Creep; and we've requested that this be acknowledged in favour of all writers of 'Creep'. To set the record straight, no lawsuit has been issued and Radiohead have not said they 'will only accept 100%' of the publishing of
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Correction: Towards microwave imaging of cells

Correction for 'Towards microwave imaging of cells' by Mehmet Kelleci et al., Lab Chip, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/c7lc01251a.
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Why we love to read

Irene Halpin Long meets a class of book lovers in Cork, and also chats to established authors about what they read as children. The author, Margaret Atwood, said … And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. I decided I would seek the opinions of two
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The Law Firm for Creative Clients Who Want to Make Something New Happen

His years providing legal support on a broad range of entertainment, technology, and artistic ventures (including independent film production, post-production, digital content production, music, book publishing, multimedia art, illustrations, public art, and software development) make him a valuable ally
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Still Kickin Kicks Off a Healthy, Altruistic New Year

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Still Kickin Kicks Off a Healthy, Altruistic New Year

When she founded Still Kickin in 2015, Nora McInerny—author of the best-selling book It's Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool, Too) and creator of the APM podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—was inspired by a phrase that appeared on a t-shirt her husband, Aaron Purmort, was wearing when he had a
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Best Selling PCs of 2017

According to Amazon's “Best Sellers” list, there was one clear winner in desktop PCs last year: HP, Inc. (NYSE:HPQ). The company still best known as “Hewlett-Packard” sold five of the top 10 best-selling desktop PC models in 2017, including the No. 1 HP 8300 Elite Small Form Factor desktop, the HP
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Mississippi Quote of the Day: Barry Hannah's Review of Book Reviewers

In a New York Times review of Mississippi author Barry Hannah's debut novel, “Geronimo Rex,” the novelist Jim Harrison called Hannah “one of … Hannah became a writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi in 1982 and went on to serve as director of Ole Miss' MFA and creative writing program.
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Radiohead's Publisher Says They Haven't Actually Sued Lana Del Rey Over 'Get Free'

She attests that she offered the band 40 percent of the publishing rights to settle the matter, but that the band “will only accept 100.” She even said that this legal drama could force her to cut the song from the album. As far as Radiohead's publisher Warner/Chappell Music is concerned, however, this
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A change in tempo for Diane Taraz

Of her 14 solo recordings, “Revolution” remains among her best sellers via online sites such as Pandora. “I get inquiries from Japan, New Zealand, LA … the world has become totally porous to music sales,” she said. Taraz also credits the internet for the information she collects on songs. “The internet is
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Texas State English professor named NEA Creative Writing Fellow

By Jack McClellan. Office of Media Relations January 9, 2018. Texas State University assistant professor of English Jennifer duBois was named a Creative Writing Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for 2018. DuBois is one of 36 fellows chosen from over 1,700 applications. The award
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Concordia University vows to probe 'disturbing' allegations of sexual misconduct

Concordia University will “treat seriously” allegations of sexual misconduct and an abusive climate in its English department, according to president Alan Shepard, following accusations made by a former student of the Montreal school's creative-writing program. In a message posted to the university's
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Bannon exits Breitbart News

Bannon said the comments in the book were not accurate. After excerpts of the book were released, President Donald Trump said that Bannon had “lost his mind.” “Fire and Fury” was published Friday, days early by popular demand and despite Trump's attorneys sending the publishers a cease and
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PRH Buys Rodale Books Assets

After completing its purchase of Rodale Inc. last week, the Hearst Corp., which announced the deal in October, quickly turned around and sold Rodale's trade book publishing assets to Penguin Random House. Terms of the acquisition, which involves more than 2,000 backlist titles and 100 frontlist
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