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Shelley Blanton-Stroud consults with employers to improve their workplace writing and editing. She has taught college writing classes for twenty years and has lead community book clubs for a decade. Contact her here.

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Book clubs are talking about author John Irving: "some mistakes can never be redeemed"

When National Book Award-winning author of Last Night at Twisted River, John Irving, spoke at Sacramento’s Crest Theater last night at a...
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Second in Food Book Talk Series Today

The Arden Dimick Open Book Club meets at 2:00 p.m. today, Sunday, October 25, at the Arden Dimick Library Community Room, to discuss the second in its...
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Book club 101: ten ways to enhance your book club meetings

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Even book clubs who are deeply comfortable with the way they have been meeting and speaking about books for years can benefit from a little shake-up...
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Official Woodstock photographer Jim Marshall's book Proof shows the photos behind the photos we know

Readers celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock can choose no better book than historic rock photographer Jim Marshall’s Proof, a...
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Rock and roll documentary videos on Woodstock photographer Jim Marshall

Woodstock afficionados will enjoy this documentary video of rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall, shot and...
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Five books for book clubs who love Mad Men's Don and Betty Draper

If your book club members are as obsessed as most well-read, sensible, good-tv fans are with AMC’s Mad Men, set to begin its third season this...
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Book Club 101: discussion questions for The Stories of John Cheever

If your book club is hooked on AMC's Mad Men, starting its third season this Sunday, suggest they scratch that itch in a literary way by reading and...
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Books and libraries, who will use them?

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Who reads anymore? More specifically, who reads books? And most specifically, who reads books they find in libraries? In the Chronicle of Higher...
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Julia Child memoir provides a model of open-hearted, open-minded curiosity and self-acceptance

Book clubs are buzzing about Julia Child, many provoked not only by the upcoming Julia & Julia film, but also by cyber-ink recently devoted to the...
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What do book clubs think? Will Barnes & Noble free Wi-Fi lead you to linger longer and buy more?

Go back to the beginning -- Chris Anderson's Free, The Future of a Radical Price. Motoko Rich reports Barnes & Noble CEO Steve Riggio's take on a...
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