6 Books With Female Characters That Made The Big Screen
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- April 25, 2017
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6 Books With Female Characters That Made The Big Screen0
- BOOK LISTS, BOOKS & FILM
- April 25, 2017
As a writer, I find it just as easy to create convincing female characters as male, thanks to the advice of an editor a few years back. She gave me the very simple advice that I should stop trying to create some kind of fantasy figures in my fiction, and write women as they really
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Songs Of Love: Pains Of Men And Their Muses0
- ARTICLES, ESSAYS, POETRY, STORIES, BOOKS & LOVE, BOOKS & MUSIC
- November 15, 2016
Editor’s Note: Paul Breen’s latest work The Bones of a Season is available through the Open Books website and also available on Amazon. You can follow Paul on Twitter @CharltonMen When I was younger and fell in love with women, I wrote them poems—wild effigies to their beauty, sometimes as rambling and unedited as a
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6 Novels That Powerfully Capture The Immigrant Experience0
- BOOK LISTS, BOOKS & SOCIETY
- November 14, 2016
These poignant novels on immigration remind us to consider all aspects of the immigrant’s story. 1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith “Set against London’ s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting
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5 Must-Read Books On Football (Soccer)0
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- November 4, 2016
Great reads about a great game. 1. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby “Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. Fever Pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby’s award-winning memoir captures the
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Shelter From The Storm0
- ARTICLES, ESSAYS, POETRY, STORIES, BOOKS & MUSIC
- October 18, 2016
Editor’s note: To celebrate Bob Dylan’s award of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature Open Books author Paul Breen presents a deleted, Dylan-inspired chapter from the first draft of his novel The Bones of a Season. Breen’s published book can be found on the Open Books website, Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. http://wisconsinforward.tumblr.com/post/45734553290/bob-dylan-shelter-from-the-storm PHEW – finally she
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Four Poems That Contain The Bones Of A Novel0
- ARTICLES, ESSAYS, POETRY, STORIES, POETRY
- July 18, 2016
For me the best poems are those that contain a story, and my favourite poets like my favourite songwriters are those who are natural storytellers. This is a selection of my favourite poetry and the novels that could emerge from them. 1. “When You Are Old” by W.B. Yeats This is the ultimate love poem,
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5 Must-Read Books On Football (Soccer)
- BOOK LISTS, BOOKS & SPORTS
- November 4, 2016
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Shelter From The Storm
- ARTICLES, ESSAYS, POETRY, STORIES, BOOKS & MUSIC
- October 18, 2016