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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade. This is a hilarious and sometimes sad look at the popular female writers of the famed Algonquin Round Table. Dorothy Parker (pictured), Edna St. Vincent Millay (known as Vincent), Edna Ferber and Zelda Fitzgerald – wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Drinking [...]

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RightGirl receives a gift!

Over the weekend I was given a copy of Shootin’ the Sh*t with Kevin Smith: The Best of the SModcast, with the inscription “Where’s my shirt??” If you’re a fan of SModcast, you’ll know that joke. I was lying in bed last night, trying not to laugh too loud while I read it. Love it!

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Um, Darling?

You were going to pre-order this for me, right? All pre-orders for President George W. Bush’s forthcoming autobiography made via this website will help keep this site up and running. Thanks!

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Chance Encounters

My friend and I sat sipping coffee in Yorkville, chatting about life and my upcoming birthday. I was a little distracted by the pile of work I knew I had waiting for me at home, including the barely-touched review copy of Salim Mansur’s forthcoming book, Islam’s Predicament. While my friend and I chatted, somewhere halfway [...]

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Self Publish Your Book

Interesting read in WaPo about a new author who was given less than zero support from her publishing house when it came to marketing. So she did her own, and has sold over 300,000 copies. Huzzah! Yay for grassroots! A couple of my friends have used print to order services like LuLu and done pretty [...]

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Making up for lost time