The company has announced plans to cut other positions recently, including 58 jobs, mostly in customer service in South Carolina, at its self-publishing unit Createspace, as well as about 30 jobs at online shopping site Zappos. Amazon is coming off one of its strongest holiday shopping periods ever,
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The event has a variety of panels, including “Shelfing Yourself – Adventures in Self-Publishing,” at 4 p.m. on Saturday. Comic entrepreneurs Buddy Scalera, Dean Haspiel, Barbara Randall Kesel and Neo Edmund will talk about the fun and not-so-fun aspects of making your own books. If horror is your
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Corporate and Shared Services (CSS) is a business unit of the Treasury that provides corporate services to the three central agencies: the Treasury, SSC and the DPMC. Within IT, our Information Management Teams consists of Web & Publishing and Information Services & Records. Our Web
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“French literature, from the Middle Ages to today, has been consistently and remarkably scatological,” according to the Harvard course catalog. “Fecal matter is omnipresent in works and authors that we consider canonical (e.g. the fabliaux, Rabelais, de Sade, Beckett, Celine) and yet its presence has
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If you' re a poet, author of fiction, or creative nonfiction writer living in the Pioneer Valley, you may have the opportunity to win a full scholarship to the Juniper Summer Writing Institute in Amherst, June 17 to 24th. The scholarship is made possible by the Valley Advocate. The 2018 Valley Advocate
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We'll also have our Jackie – one of our perennial best sellers – which is a mix of greens and roses and calla lilies. And of course, we are offering our Vogue bouquets, and there are red roses in one of the bouquets – The Nicole – that Nicole Phelps, the runway director for Vogue, designed. Where do
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CONWAY—The University of Central Arkansas creative writing program will host the ArkaText literary festival, the annual celebration of Arkansas writers, Feb. 19-23. ArkaText features readings, presentations and craft lectures. Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Sandy Longhorn said the festival
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As an anthropologist teaching in the Princeton Writing Program whose courses regularly involve offensive material, I would like to weigh in on the recent controversy surrounding Lawrence Rosen's use of the N-word in his class. In short, I write in support of the students who walked out on Rosen.
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The Top Chef alum's multi-concept food hall kicked off with a mini version of his flagship Italian restaurant, Graffiato; a new all-day cafe called … an ode to Mediterranean-themed Arroz and a catch-all grand dining room, a reservations-friendly space serving best sellers from select Isabella Eatery stands.
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