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member name: Jack E.
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January 29, 2009 01:17 PM EST --
As everyone around here knows, at four year intervals we all have to get our driver's license renewed, pretty much from scratch. For us, the time was up this month, and we waited until pretty much . . .
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February 24, 2008 07:26 PM EST --
I've always disagreed with Hemingway on his notion that newspaper reporting "blunts the instrument" for writing good and true fiction.
My favorite novels open with a bang, like the first . . .
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August 20, 2008 02:54 PM EDT --
As I get it, people are being tossed from their homes because of some mortgage, or bank foul-up. The original homeowners are now living in tents.
Now these houses are up for auction and you, dear neighbor, . . .
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September 03, 2008 08:11 PM EDT --
What's this?
Indecent Proposal Just for the heck of it I decided to check out how my most famous novel is doing among top booksellers and found that there are a slew of books . . .
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December 17, 2008 12:54 PM EST --
Caroline Kennedy never grew up, not for me. She will always be that beautiful child who, carefree and happy, went romping around the While House along with her brother John John back when her father was . . .
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December 22, 2008 12:20 PM EST --
People are actually talking about the end of books as we knew them and loved them and though I am in this business, as a novelist, I am no expert on the publishing side, so maybe I don't know what . . .
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June 03, 2009 01:03 PM EDT --
I'm not perfect either but I've got to say, people are tough to take.
At the diner where I had breakfast this morning, the sign in the Gents room said, "Employees Must Wash Hands." That's a sign we . . .
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November 14, 2009 11:07 PM EST --
By Jack Engelhard
I have never read a book this awful – ever!
Philip Roth’s latest novel, “The Humbling,” is a about an aging actor who finds that he’s . . .
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July 01, 2008 07:07 PM EDT --
Hemingway told Bernard Berenson: "Having books published is very destructive to writing."
Salinger put it like this to me and to all writers (of fiction): "There is a marvelous peace . . .
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November 20, 2008 02:11 PM EST --
During his interview on "60 Minutes" president-elect Barack Obama mentioned a book that he'd been reading on FDR's first 100 Days. He did not name the book, tantalizing publishers that . . .
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April 02, 2009 07:52 PM EDT --
Don't know about you but as for me, I always catch my typos when it's too late, like when I've already sent something out, or even after I've had it published -- all that even after I've . . .
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April 23, 2008 06:15 PM EDT --
Dark Diamond Twilight: A True Story Flaubert may have done it successfully in "Madame Bovary" but outside of that it's nearly impossible to find any male writer who can . . .
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February 16, 2009 08:44 PM EST --
By Jack Engelhard
Here's another winner from John W. Cassell - his novel "Uncertain Paradise, Part 2," but don't tell the Big Boys and Girls who run our culture because it might ruin . . .
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November 19, 2009 11:12 PM EST --
By John W. Cassell
My copy of Jack Engelhard's SLOT ATTENDANT:A NOVEL ABOUT A NOVELIST came this afternoon. As I was reading another truly engrossing novel at the time and NEVER read more . . .
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November 30, 2008 12:14 PM EST --
Robert Spencer is a leading authority on Islam. His website www.jihadwatch.com tells all on a daily basis. His latest book is titled STEALTH JIHAD. His breakthrough book and constant best-seller . . .
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October 06, 2008 06:38 PM EDT --
I'm tired of it; aren't you? I mean EVERYTHING! They're all crooks, in it not for us, but for themselves.
Anyway, that's not why I called this here meetin'. Just finished polishing . . .
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October 28, 2008 01:09 PM EDT --
Indecent Proposal Well, it finally happened. My computer crashed. All my works in progress - gone! Fortunately, most of my novels are already published and listed on Amazon and elsewhere, . . .
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November 23, 2008 10:01 PM EST --
There's a new book out on the life, loves, sexuality and brutality of V. S. Naipaul, a man who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.
Is there a Nobel Prize for Wife Beating? If so, Naipaul . . .
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February 23, 2009 11:55 AM EST --
F. Scott Fitzgerald's last royalty check came to around $4.85. In the beginning (with the publication of "This Side of Paradise") he was America's literary darling. In the end, practically . . .
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June 07, 2009 04:39 PM EDT --
Indecent Proposal
By Jack Engelhard
Someone has come along with a "sequel" to JD Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." Salinger is suing to stop publication . . .
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