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From: The New York Times, Section A[In the following excerpt, Moore defends Simon and Schuster's last-minute rejection of American Psycho.] It appears that the Authors Guild and certain publishers have rallied around Bret Easton Ellis's novel American...
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From:[(interview n. d.) In the following interview, Falconer assesses his process of writing Olivia and personal experiences.] [Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing]: We know that the Olivia books are about your niece,...
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From: ALAN Review[(essay date winter 2004) In the following essay, Cart traces the evolution of literature targeted at "GLBTQ youth (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning)," noting that while homosexuals have been largely...
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From: Book PageHere's the thing of it: Eloise in Moscow has returned. The final published collaboration of author Kay Thompson and illustrator Hilary Knight, Eloise in Moscow was originally released in 1959, following on the heels of...
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From: New Statesman[(essay date 13 December 2004) In the following essay, Bray considers Chronicles: Vol. 1 superior to other recently published rock memoirs, noting, "Never has a rock star put pen to paper with such skill."] "In writing...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 52, Issue 3)Martin Gardner's article "Euler's Spoilers: The Discovery of an Order-lO Graeco-Latin Square" Chapter 14 in his book New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American, Simon & Schuster, 1966 reports on a certain...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 75, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIsaacson, Walter. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. The digital age was not the product of a single genius. It was largely the...
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From: Library TalkDoreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin have once again created a winning tale [with Giggle, Giggle, Quack]! Farmer Brown is well aware of the unusual problems that his farm animals can cause. How could he forget the electric...
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From: Mailer Review[(essay date fall 2009) In the following essay, Balter asserts that when Lee Harvey Oswald ends John F. Kennedy's life in Mailer's nonfiction account,Oswald's Tale, and Don DeLillo's novel, Libra, the killer "begins his...
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From: A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Larsen and Larsen chronicle the circumstances surrounding the writing and publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces.] The miracle is, that the magic is effective in the...
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From: Studies in Bibliography[(essay date 06) In the following essay, Higdon and Reed discuss the 450 significant revisions that Swift made to Waterland between its first publication in 1983 and the second edition, arguing that the novel’s...
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From: Quidditas[(essay date 2015) In the following essay, Taylor locates in the “Epithalamion” and the poetry of Sir Philip Sidney an evolution in love poetry that helped increase female equality in marriage. She argues that “[w]ithout...
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From: Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Wilson spotlights the treatment of older female characters in the works of Hulme and several other authors.] Frequently, the aged and aging narrators and personas in recent...
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From: The Wall Street Journal[(review date 19 June 1990) In the following review, Rubin offers a positive assessment of ten of Jhabvala's novels rereleased by Simon & Schuster.] Talking about contemporary writers, Dame Rebecca West once mentioned...
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From:Rocky Mountain Review (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPaul Yoon. Run Me to Earth. Simon & Schuster, 2020. 254p. Run Me to Earth is set during the chaos of the Vietnam War but tells the story of the often-forgotten country of Laos. Laos lies between Thailand and Vietnam...
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From:Rocky Mountain Review (Vol. 72, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedChris Matthews. Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. 396p. Chris Matthews, longstanding host of MSNBC's bristly Hardball, retells the life of Robert F. Kennedy with edgy prose. He begins...
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From: Library TalkVibrant photos, strong storytelling, and the immediacy of a young boy's connection to a sea turtle in crisis engross readers in an ecological adventure, all the more compelling because it is true [in Interrupted Journey:...
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From: Zane Grey’s Arizona[(essay date 1984) In the following essays, Kant classifies Grey’s novels based on the people, places, and themes he used in books set in particular geographic regions of the American southwest and then traces the...
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From:ISAA Review: journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGolden Hope by Johanna Nicholls Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2016, ISBN 9781922052728 Golden Hope follows the fortunes of a resourceful young heroine, Clytie Hart, during the first two years of the 20th century in...
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From: Reconstruction[(essay date spring 2003) In the following essay, Brouillette suggests that the plot of You Shall Know Our Velocity functions as an allegory for Eggers's desire to use his writing to encourage the betterment of society,...