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Published: 08/28/10

Opinion: New Orleans Has All the Write Stuff

By  Shari J. Stauch - AOL News
Opinion: New Orleans Has All the Write Stuff

(Aug. 28) -- When disaster strikes, writers write. That's no secret. But a well-kept secret, at least outside the writing community, is why so many writers continue to be compelled to pen their observations of New Orleans, even five years after that massive disaster labeled Katrina. First, it's important to understand that New Orleans has been to writers what heroin is to a junkie: an ultimate high, sensory overload to the nth degree. Itinerants on Jackson Square, tarot-reading under candlelight, juxtaposed against the blinding excess of the Garden District. The sounds of local accents -- ...

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Published: 08/5/10

Reading Problems Don't Stop Twins From Being Acclaimed Authors

By  David Moye - AOL News
Reading Problems Don't Stop Twins From Being Acclaimed Authors

(Aug. 5) -- Writing an award-winning book is hard to do for an adult, much less a teenager. It's even more difficult when you have problems reading books. But twin sisters from Orange County, Calif., who just turned 15 aren't letting little things like age, dyslexia or attention deficit disorder keep them from becoming acclaimed authors. Jeff Winner Meet Brittany and Brianna Winner -- two of America's youngest and most successful authors. The twins have overcome dyslexia and attention deficit disorder to become award-winning writers. In fact, their difficulties have turned out to be an ...

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Published: 06/5/10

'To Kill a Mockingbird' Turns 50, but Where Is Harper Lee?

By  Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
'To Kill a Mockingbird' Turns 50, but Where Is Harper Lee?

This summer America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of "To Kill a Mockingbird," but don't count on an appearance by the reclusive author, 84-year-old Harper Lee of Monroeville, Alabama. She hasn't granted an interview since 1964. She never gives speeches. She's rarely seen outside of her hometown. And she's apparently made her peace with her status as a one-book author. Harper Lee set the bar so high that subsequent books could never really leave its shadow. In point of fact she once told her cousin, "When you have a hit like that, you can't go anywhere but down." But you ...

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Published: 10/24/09

Ripping Off Writers Since 1852: The Literary Industrial Complex

By  Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
Ripping Off Writers Since 1852: The Literary Industrial Complex

Speaking of cons...Having just taken on the happiness industry, I thought I would follow up by taking on the writing industry. Or, more precisely, the writer factory.Even graduates of bartending schools have some sort of employment on the horizon. But that just goes to show you the sheer genius of the literary-industrial complex. The available jobs after graduation are nothing more than a mirage, and even though everyone knows it, people still fork over millions of dollars.I should point out that there are at least two kinds of writer cons. First, there's the writing equivalent to the ads we ...

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