Clinton signed copies of her children's book sequel, “She Persisted Around the World,” a follow up to her original #1 New York Times best-selling picture book, “She Persisted.” Its publishers say that “She Persisted Around the World” is a book for everyone who has ever aimed high and been told to step
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Last night we attended the 47th Hennessy Literary Awards where they celebrated the very best of new Irish writing from the past year. It was an excellently organised event, taking … From Dublin, Manus Boyle Tobin holds a M.A. in Creative Writing from UCD. In addition to his winning story The Drizzle on
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It started as a site for hosting user-uploaded content but has branched out to partnerships with book publishers and media. Scribd counts Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Macmillan and HarperCollins among its publishing partners, and it has news from media outlets including the Harvard
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After his semi-retirement in 2008, he turned much of his attention to creative writing and blogging. His personal essays and poetry were published in Ad Hoc Monadnock Online and Smoky Quartz. He became particularly active in the Monadnock Writers' Group, where he served as president and later as
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I remember getting an email invitation to write for Inquirer.net (at that time, it was INQ7.net) in early 2001. I was surprised, of course, as I never thought of writing there. I also knew no one in that online publication. The editor who sent me the invitation said that he had read some articles that I had been
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Whatever benefits that can be extracted through purposeful inquiry, social media left only to its own corporate purpose can become a “weapon of mass distraction”: and big social data collectors world class (not to mention worldwide), manipulators. Of course, when Twitter first hit us I liked it. We used it
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