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Photogenic Calamity Physics Author Goes Random (The New York Observer)

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:03:19 GMT

Novelist Marisha Pessl has left Viking Press, the house that published her hugely popular debut, Special Topics in Calamity Physics , in favor of a more lucrative contract at Random House’s flagship imprint. The new book will be called Night Film , according to her literary agent, Binky Urban of International Creative Management. Ms. Pessl, she said, expects to finish it in several years....

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Legendary Bookseller and Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books on the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac (Indybay newswire)

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:57:45 GMT

Monday, December 24, 2007 : Fifty years ago this year Viking Press published Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road. Today we will talk with City Lights Books' publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1953, Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, the first all-paperbound bookshop in the country. Two years later he launched the City Lights publishing house. Both...

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The Fighting 69th (BLACKFIVE)

blackfive@gmail.com (Pundit Review Radio) — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:40:20 GMT

A note from Badger 6 still in Iraq CPT Sean Michael Flynn, and Army Officer and OIF vet, has written a book about the unit he deployed with, the Fighting 69th of the New York Army National Guard. Viking Press...

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The Fighting 69th (Badgers Forward)

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:49:29 GMT

Viking Press has provided me with an advance copy of The Fighting 69th: One Remarkable National Guard Unit's Journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad by Sean Michael Flynn. My plan is to read the book on the way back to Iraq, interview Mr. Flynn and then provide you a review. From a cursory glance the book seems to be willing to tackle all the hard subjects. Look for a write up soon.

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Space Food Sticks Reenter Earth's Orbit, Land on Store Shelves (Red Orbit )

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:00:10 GMT

... the retro-style graphics featured on the new Sticks packaging. "I saw Ralph's book ("Fun-Boy," Viking Press) and was really impressed. Fortunately he was a fan of Space Food Sticks so it worked out perfectly."Currently, the cosmic creations are being sold at nostalgia candy stores, e-commerce websites and museum stores including the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Kennedy and Johnson...

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Aint that a hoot! (Mover Mike)

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:10:00 GMT

... then reduced to 50 years and, most recently, down to 5 years (Calder, N. The Weather Machine; Viking Press: New York, 1974.). So, if the ocean is opening right now, (and it is) we could possibly start to see the temperature reversal under way in about 10 years. Bottom Line: Instead of being on the edge of extinction from high heat and rising seas, we MAY be on the edge of the ice...

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Busy Punk Rock Weekend! (Punk Turns 30)

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:24:00 GMT

... READING at Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd. Venice, Ca. 310-822-3006 In commemoration of of the Viking Press publication of Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD, a defining work of the Beat Generation, join some of Los Angeles's most noted, poets, writers, actors and artists for the FIRST EVER marathon reading of the legendary scroll from which the published version was crafted. Surprise guest...

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Philip Booth: Day-to-Day Consciousness (Poets.org)

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:07:33 GMT

... he published nine other collections of poetry, including Lifelines: Selected Poems, 1950-1999 (Viking Press, 1999), which received the 2001 Poets' Prize, Pairs (1994), Relations: Selected Poems 1950-1985 (1986), Available Light (1976), and Weathers and Edges (1966).About his work, the poet has said, "While other poets of his generation have been struggling not to duplicate themselves,...

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Remembering Jack Kerouac (linkfilter.net - fresh links)

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:10:36 GMT

... for what he called his "spontaneous bop prose." Numerous publishers had rejected it, and even Viking Press had kept it on ice for two years, fearful of lawsuits as well as the consequences of bringing it out at a time when the novels of Henry Miller and D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover were banned in the United States. The date Viking had finally selected was September...

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Sept. 5, 1793, the Reign of Terror began (Sify)

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:53:30 GMT

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 5, the 248th day of 2007. There are 117 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: Fifty years ago, on Sept. 5, 1957, Viking Press first published the novel On the Road, by Jack Kerouac. On this date: In 1774, the First Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. In 1793, the Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention...

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TINARS Celebrates Fifty Years On The Road (Torontoist)

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:06:28 GMT

Originally published by Viking Press in 1957, Jack Kerouac's On the Road has been wearing holes in the back pockets and floppy canvas knapsacks of gaggles of come-find-yourself road trippers and college-aged who-am-I types ever since. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of its publication, Wednesday night will see the Gladstone play host to something of a symposium on the life and...

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Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books n the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" (Indybay newswire)

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:31:28 GMT

Monday, September 3, 2007 : Fifty years ago this week Viking Press published Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road. Today we will talk with City Lights Books' publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1953, Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, the first all-paperbound bookshop in the country. Two years later he launched the City Lights publishing house. Both...

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Remembering Jack Kerouac, and his American dream (JSOnline)

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:21:51 GMT

... early novels (Library of America), and a book by John Leland called "Why Kerouac Matters," Viking Press has put out a facsimile of the legendary teletype roll on which Kerouac supposedly banged out a first draft. They have also repackaged Joyce Johnson's memoir, "Minor Characters."The scroll is more than a curiosity. It is a pagan artifact of the creative process of which Kerouac...

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Joyce Johnson: Jack Kerouac and the 50th anniversary of On The Road (Boing Boing)

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:55:24 GMT

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John Gardner, author of 14 James Bond novels, dies at 80 (Florida Sun Sentinel)

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT

... memoir of his battle with alcoholism.His first novel, published the next year, was The Liquidator (Viking Press, 1964). Its hero, Boysie Oakes, is an anti-Bond. Recruited as a secret agent entirely by mistake, Oakes is inept, vulgar and so cowardly that he hires a subcontractor to do his killing for him.Reviewing the novel in The New York Times Book Review, Anthony Boucher wrote,...

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New Work: ‘Spook Country’ (New at Pentagram)

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:20:53 GMT

Angus Hyland, with design assistant Masumi Briozzo, has designed the UK hardback cover for Spook Country, a new thriller by the acclaimed novelist, and father of cyberpunk, William Gibson. Spook Country is published in the UK by Viking Press,...

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Louis S. Glanzman (Mike Lynch Cartoons)

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:20:00 GMT

Some illustrations by Louis S. Glanzman from the book BIG MUSIC OR TWENTY MERRY TALES TO TELL chosen by Mary Noel Bleecker. It was published in 1946 by the Viking Press in New York City. Above: Taking off the paper book jacket, you can see this lovely inky illustration of some of the characters dancing. But it was the endpapers that stopped me in my tracks. Beautiful work. It looked like...

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Review: 'The Complete Stories' by David Malouf (New York Newsday)

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:00:00 GMT

THE COMPLETE STORIES, by David Malouf. Pantheon, 508 pp., $27.50.Among the collected letters of Patrick White, the sole Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, is a 1977 note to the editorial director of the Viking Press. "There's an Australian writer at last who I think has it," White wrote. "His name is David Malouf, his origins mostly Lebanese, part London-Jewish. He...

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Fforde's juggling act continues unabated (Denver Post)

editor@denverpost.com (Robin Vidimos Special to The Denver Post) — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:41:31 GMT

Jasper Fforde will be at the Tattered Cover Book Store in LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. (Viking Press / Mari Roberts)Arguably, what is most enjoyable about Jasper Fforde's work is not its silliness - though there is plenty of that. It is admiring the skill that keeps all those silly balls in the air. And the newest chapter in the Thursday Next saga, "First Among...

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the whole sound coming towards us, all of it (3quarksdaily)

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:35:01 GMT

Among the collected letters of Patrick White, the sole Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, is a 1977 note to the editorial director of the Viking Press. "There's an Australian writer at last who I think has...

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