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jeudi 19 septembre 2013

Sarah Palin As President? Author Fred Rich Imagines A World Where That's True

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was unsuccessful in her 2008 run for the vice presidency, but a new book puts her in the top spot, imagining a world where Palin is president of the United States.

"Christian Nation," a book by author Fred Rich, describes a world in which John McCain was victorious in the 2008 election over Barack Obama. In the novel, President McCain passes away, leaving America in the hands of Palin.

“If somebody like Sarah Palin, who holds so firmly to this conviction that America is and should be a Christian nation, what would happen if she actually had the power to implement it?” Rich said of his book, According to Politico.

Rich said the book "is not intended to be a shrill, bombastic addition" to the larger conversation about religion as much as an effort to highlight some religious "extremists."

"Those aren’t bad people -- I'm not hitting those people over the head. What I’m doing is shining a spotlight on the fact that some leading opinion makers -- and the ones that can drive the politics in this country -- are extremists.”

Click here to read an excerpt from the book.

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dimanche 4 août 2013

Save Relationship With A Vacation? Author Says It Didn't Work For Her

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Karen Schaler makes her living writing about how vacations can act as relationship therapy, but she knows firsthand that trips can also make it clear when a relationship is not meant to be.

The author of "Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need To Go?" joined HuffPost Live's Ricky Camilleri for a conversation about "hail-mary-moons" -- a kind of last-minute effort to save a relationship by going on vacation.

Schaler had the opposite experience.

"I was in a relationship, and on the surface it looked great," she said. "It was a new relationship, but it had moved along pretty quickly, and everything looked perfect to the outside world. But deep down, I had doubts."

Schaler looks at travel as her relationship "litmus test," so the couple took a trip to the British Virgin Islands, where they lounged on a catamaran and enjoyed the beautiful scenery.

"I thought, 'Hopefully, this will really create the spark and those doubts will go away,'" Schaler said. "It actually was a successful trip because it turned out the doubts were right."

She realized that though her companion was a wonderful man, he simply wasn't right for her. Watch the clip above for more on her experience (and check out the full conversation here), then click through the slideshow below to see how our readers knew their marriages were over.

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samedi 6 juillet 2013

Iain Banks given: the Scottish author dead at 59


By Belinda Goldsmith

London, June 9 (Reuters) - the novelist Iain Banks, which had lively Scottish literature for three decades with his black humor, has died in just a few days of cancer before the publication of his novel 27 and end "The quarry".

Banks announced that he was suffering from the disease in April and said that he had asked his partner, author Adele Hartley, "she makes me the honour of becoming my widow" - macabre humor, explained, helped to cope with their impending death.

The announcement triggered tributes of his army of fans who have followed the prolific writer since he made his literary debut in 1984 with "The WaSP factory".

Announcing his death at the age of 59, Publisher Little Brown told banks it was irreplaceable part of the literary world.

"It makes just three weeks was presented with finished copies of his latest novel,"The quarry"and enjoy celebration parties with old friends and fans in the publishing world," said the editorial in a statement.

Banks began to write the book when he was diagnosed with bladder cancer in March.

The novel, to be published on June 20, describes the last few weeks in the life of a man in his forties, battling terminal cancer which cares for his son's 18-year-old Kit.

Instinct of the first such banks to fierce black and biting humor comments dialogue remained as sharp as ever.

POLITICS AND PASSIONS

Banks was born in Fife, only child in a home filled with books. Parents encouraged to develop a life of fantasy.

He knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer, completing his first unpublished novel at the age of 16.

After the success of 'The WaSP factory', the banks began to write full-time full and in accordance with your editor to try to produce a year's book, making two runs of writing - and Iain Banks current fiction writer Iain M. Banks, the science fiction writer that emerged with "Consider Phlébas" in 1987.

The first Iain made more money from his books, which included "The Crow road" and "Complicity" and received the greatest literary praise. The second Iain with a M., was more political and loyal cult track.

Banks, a character more than life carrying its politics and passions on her sleeve, once joked that he had considered adding a few pseudonyms to the list by writing Westerns as Iain Z. Banks and eroticism as Iain Banks X...

Proud of his Scottish heritage, banks delighted in his love of whisky de Malta, even in what is the subject of a book "Raw spirit" that took him through Scotland.

But after hitting 50 and with the collapse of his first marriage in 2006 he took stock of his life and changes.

The man who once ran by the rector of the University of Edinburgh in the name of hijos de puta drunk party cut their consumption and also abandoned recreational drugs after years of use of marijuana, LSD and cocaine.

"Always called the line in heroin, which is simply stupid," banks told the Australian in 2008.

In an attempt to reduce their carbon footprint, decided to avoid long-haul flights and traded in his beloved sports cars - Jaguar, Porches, BMW and a Land Rover - something greener.

"I miss the car lot. I finally cracked and bought a soft hood Mini because it is green and has the smallest engine, ", he said.

For several years that had problems to travel because he broke his passport in protest of Iraq war in 2007, refuse to apply for a new one until Prime Minister Tony Blair left office.

Fans of the author wrote his condolences on Sunday.

"Rest in peace, Iain Banks. So sad news, "writing cyclist Chris today, most successful Olympic of Great Britain. (Additional reporting by Andrew Osborn; Edited by Andrew Heavens)

samedi 1 juin 2013

Jack Vance Dead: Award-Winning Mystery, Fantasy And Science Fiction Author Dies At 96

Jack Vance Dead Award-winning speculative fiction author Jack Vance died May 26, 2013. He was 96.

SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96.

Vance died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland, his son John Vance II told The Associated Press.

Jack Vance, whose legal name was John Holbrook, published most of his work as Jack Vance, but he also wrote 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and three as Ellery Queen, as well as books under the pen names of Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See and Jay Kavanse, according to the Jack Vance website, which is maintained by family and friends.

"This is a complex guy, and (there's) an awful lot to say about him," John Vance told The AP.

In 2009, a profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices," according to the website.

Vance collected a number of awards over the years, including Hugo Awards for "The Dragon Masters" in 1963, "The Last Castle" in 1967, and for his memoir "This is Me, Jack Vance!" in 2010.

"Author, friend, father and grandfather, there will never be another like Jack Vance," his son said.

Born in San Francisco, Vance graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942. He worked for a while as an electrician in the naval shipyards at Pearl Harbor, leaving about a month before the Japanese attack there, according to the website.

Described as a "blue-collar guy" by his son, Vance worked over the years as a seaman, a surveyor and carpenter. His first book was published in 1945, but Vance did not establish himself as a writer until the 1970s.

Although legally blind since the 1980s, Vance continued to write with the aid of software, including his most recent novel, "Lurulu," his son said. Vance had said "Lurulu" would be his final book, but he completed his memoir, which was published in July 2009.

In his later years, Vance suffered from poor kidney health and diabetes, which he which he maintained by diet control, his son said.

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