Under the smile-triggering headline "Joe the Author, Plumbing New Lows in Interest," the Washington Post describes a local book signing by the temporary...
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O Dear, Joe the Plumber is not doing very well as an author
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, February 28, 2009 | 10:58 AM
MBO AT CALENDAR CLUB
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, February 26, 2009 | 12:08 PM
Barnes & Noble Announces Sale of its Interest in Calendar ClubThe bargains are proving irresistible, but this one must be a record. Management at...
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Big change at Wellington's Dominion Post
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 | 12:16 AM
BREAKING NEWS: Dominion Post Editor steps down to head NPATim Pankhurst has resigned as editor of the Dominion Post newspaper to become head of the Newspaper...
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Phonetic Alphabet
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, February 23, 2009 | 6:21 PM
The other day, when I was in a travel agent's office, I was fascinated to listen to her spelling my name on the phone: Delta, Romeo, Uniform, Echo, Tango,...
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'Slumdog Millionaire' Wins Best Picture
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 9:45 PM
Breaking news from NYTimes.on line is that Slumdog Millionaire won the top prize at the 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony, as well as awards for directing,...
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New Voices of 2009
In February last year Waterstone's picked 12 new writers, predicting their names would dominate the literary landscape for years to come. As Kate Saunders...
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Endangered languages
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, February 21, 2009 | 12:32 PM
My announcement of the UNESCO program to retrieve and save languishing languages -- vital because they are the special voice of the people -- inspired...
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Gold Rush in California
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, February 20, 2009 | 12:59 PM
Back in the days when I was a freelance travel writer, it was a standing joke in our family that I could always sell a story about Sacramento, California....
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Saving endangered languages
Half of the 6,700 languages spoken today are in danger of disappearing before the century ends, a process that can be slowed only if urgent action is...
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With the help of a dictionary
Times Online reports that the identity of one of Europe's most notorious drivers has finally been pinned down.He racked up dozens of speeding fines and...
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Are teens ready for romance?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | 12:02 PM
Back when I was teaching at a girls' boarding school, I took all kinds of eccentric steps to foster a love of reading in my 13- and 14-year-old students,...
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Dr Who wins again
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 | 11:29 AM
David Tennant tops theatregoers' popularity pollDr Who aka David Tennant has scored a big hit, his return to the stage in the guise of Hamlet being named...
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Paying for nothing?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, February 14, 2009 | 9:00 PM
Andrew Brown, in the Guardian, writes:Scientific journals are a notorious racket: because they are essential tools for the professions that use them,...
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Writing in secret
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, February 13, 2009 | 12:33 PM
One dark evening, in the depths of an otherwise deserted university, a mathematics professor was working secretly on his latest attempt at a novel. In...
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Tragic loss for book distributor
Jean Srnecz, senior vice president (merchandizing) of the book distributor Baker and Taylor, was one of the victims of a plane crash in Buffalo last night.Multitudes...
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Blagojevich memoirs?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, February 12, 2009 | 11:46 AM
Breaking news from Spy Mouse:Impeached & disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has just been spotted in the lobby of the Flatiron Building,...
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New book from Sri Lankan author
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | 11:54 PM
Press release follows.Dear Joan,You will be pleased to know that my third novel The Sweet and Simple Kind will be launched in London today by Little,...
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Dramatic cuts at HarperCollins
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 | 12:16 PM
BREAKING NEWS: HarperCollins lays off staff, closes division The surge of bad news has now washed up to the doors of HarperCollins in New York. The Collins...
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Recommended reading from Old Salt Blog
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, February 6, 2009 | 1:00 PM
Richard Spilman, on his nautical book blog, features a glowing review of Defying Empire, Trading with the Enemy in Old New York, by Thomas Truxes.He says,...
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JK Rowling knighted
In France, that is. The BBC announces today that the Harry Potter author has been created a Knight of the Legion of Honour, France's highest civilian...
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A very Interesting Life
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, February 5, 2009 | 1:28 PM
The Oxford Dictionary of Biography has a more-than-interesting life featured today. This is of a favorite character of mine, Ann Jane Thornton. I wrote...
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Replace the newspaper with the kindle?
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 | 11:16 AM
Silicon Alley Insider (Digital Business, live!), Nicholas Carlson, has done some arithmetic, and reckons it would be cheaper for the New York Times to...
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