Politicians on the compaign trail are not asked often enough about arts and culture, writes Nick Clegg in The Stage.According to the numbers, people...
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WRITERS - NOT BANKERS - FOR BRITAIN!!!!!
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, April 30, 2010 | 2:15 PM
LENNON LYRIC UP FOR AUCTION
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, April 29, 2010 | 2:09 PM
John Lennon's handwritten lyric for the Beatles song "A Day in the Life" will go under the hammer at Sotheby's, New York, on 18 June, 53 years...
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ANGLO-SAXON MANUSCRIPTS ON THE WWW
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | 2:33 PM
An important collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, held at Corpus Christi College at Cambridge, has been digitalized and is now available on the web. This...
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STRANGE HISTORICAL ADVENTURES
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | 6:51 PM
The Coral Thief, by Rebecca StottSelkirk's Island by Diana SouhamiReading was not entirely neglected while I had my head down with the last lap of...
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MARK TWAIN SEANCE
Oh damn, I missed it -- a truly centennial event. In the witching hour of April 26, Mark Twain's birthday was marked with a cake and a seance at...
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TUPAIA IN PRODUCTION: the jacket
Before I even finished writing the book, my editor at Praeger Books and his designer were working hard on the jacket. The publishers had already been...
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THE QUERY LETTER: finding an agent, part two.
So, you have a copy of Literary Marketplace or Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers and Literary Agents, and you have girded yourself for contacting the agents you have marked on your list.Your checklist should have been compiled very carefully. ...
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The Production of a Book, Part One
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, April 26, 2010 | 3:55 PM
Those who follow this blog (and say good things about it) deserve an explanation for the long silence since the post about the Well Travelled Bow and...
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The Wrong Way to Find a Literary Agent
Yesterday, I received a very polite query from an interested reader who described himself as "a struggling writer." After saying very nice things about the research and writing of In the Wake of Madness, he confided that he had written a book,...
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AMAZON AND THE INDISCREET HISTORIAN
There have been some strange goings-on in the academic book world. Professor Orlando Figes, a historian at Birkbeck College (London) has been caught putting...
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Wiki Coffin Kidnapped
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Sunday, April 25, 2010 | 2:17 PM
I might have had my head down with the last lap of my biography, Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator, but it was a welcome tap on the shoulder...
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Agatha Christie still reigns
Agatha Christie may have passed away in 1976, but she is still the genre queen.Tim Masters reports that a Christie short story that most people will have...
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30 Amazing Facts About Facebook
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, April 1, 2010 | 8:01 AM
As we know facebook is one of the fastest growing social networking website today with several users all over the world. When facebook came first no one...
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iPhone OS 4 Get Multitasking Support
Rumor has been started that new iPhone OS 4 will get multitasking support like a Mac Expose. The next version of Apple�s mobile operating system, iPhone...
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YouTube Redesign Homepage
As you know Google change its design time to time in different ways including their franchise websites like Orkut, Adwords and now Google has redesign...
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