Freshman for President
In case you've missed the news, Milo J. Wright is running for president! For more information, visit his Website at www.writeinwright.com or call him at 555-8976.*
*If you are interested in having your lawn mowed by J&M Mowing, you can also call the same number. No yard too big or too small.
Most presidential candidates don't finance their campaigns with a lawn-mowing business, but most of them aren't fifteen-year-old high school sophomores either. Milo knows that winning the election is unlikely, and he knows that even if he did win, he would be unable to take office because he is twenty years shy of the minimum age required of the occupant of the Oval Office.
Dual frustrations motivate Milo's decision to run for the highest office in the land. First,....
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Matt Richtel, New York Times contributor and published author, has found a way to put Twitter to a literary use. He is publishing a thriller, or "Twiller" via the microblogging site.
"It's about a man who wakes up in the mountains of Colorado, suffering from amnesia, with a haunting feeling he is a murderer," Richtel writes on the New York Times Web site. "In possession of only a cellphone that lets him Twitter, he uses the phone to tell his story of self-discovery, 140 characters at a time."
Interested readers can sign up to "follow" mrichtel at
Twitter.
New York Times
Bank of Books, a bookseller in Ventura, California, is giving away 10,000 books this Saturday as a thank-you to the community for voting the store the county's best independent bookseller five consecutive years in the Ventura County Reporter.
Customers can have their pick of any book in a designated free area, which will contain more than 100 categories of books.
Ventura County Reporter
The Web site of the Orwell Prize is revisiting author George Orwell's diaries, posting each entry on a blog exactly seventy years after it was written.
"George Orwell started keeping a diary on August 9, 1938, and maintained it on a more or less daily basis till shortly before his death in 1950," the Telegraph reports.
Many entries deal with the weather. Seventy years ago today, he was aboard a ship bound for Morocco.
Orwell Diaries
The Washington Post picks its list of the best fall books. Several title from independent publishers are named here, including The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery (Europa, Sept.): "The all-too-human tenants of a Paris apartment building, as seen through the eyes of the concierge."
Washington Post
Librarians from Chandler, Ariz., discuss some of the weird things they've found in returned books at azcentral.com. Library Aide Marj Pals displays her discoveries, including cash, greeting cards, and board game pieces, on the wall near her desk.
"Most of the cash discoveries are just a dollar or two, but several years ago Pals found an envelope containing a $10,000 check," Edythe Jensen writes in the article.
AZ Central
Updated: 9/5/2008
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 To celebrate its tenth year, ForeWord Magazine named the first Independent Publisher of the Year in conjunction with its annual Book of the Year Awards. Kunati Books, a publisher of fiction and nonfiction which released its first titles just over two years ago, is the first recipient of this title. Read more about the award
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