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Backlash Begins Following Serra Canonization AnnouncementAs expected, last week's announcement by Pope Francis that he intends to canonize the Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra later this year has drawn sharp reactions...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jan. 20, 2015Last comment by CrescentParkAnon., on Jan 26, 2015 at 10:41 pm | 14 comments | 6209 Views
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Pope Francis to Canonize Father Junípero SerraReuters,
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jan. 15, 2015Last comment by Jay Park, on Jan 21, 2015 at 8:56 pm | 9 comments | 6967 Views
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Who is T.T. Monday? : The Story of a Novel, Part 3In most lines of work, seniority counts for something. In major-league baseball, for instance, young players in their first few professional seasons have their salaries...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Feb. 24, 2014Last comment by Lynne, on Mar 10, 2016 at 3:21 pm | 5 comments | 10924 Views
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Dock Ellis in the Country of BaseballRemember the pitcher Dock Ellis? I have always read a lot of baseball books, and lately I've been reading even more, trying to learn all I can about the world...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Aug. 11, 2014Last comment by Alex P, on Feb 5, 2015 at 4:54 pm | 4 comments | 9302 Views
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The Goldfinch: Sometimes You Should Believe the HypeRecent shop talk aside, this is a blog dedicated to reviewing books. I've...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jun. 3, 2014Last comment by Nick Taylor, on Jun 21, 2014 at 5:51 pm | 4 comments | 9471 Views
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Champion of Choice by Cathleen MillerMiller, Cathleen. Champion of Choice. (University of Nebraska Press, 2013). I've been busy reading a fascinating new biography,
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jan. 1, 2014Last comment by ManiaceJames, on Jan 21, 2014 at 1:40 am | 4 comments | 7618 Views
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A Pantser Brought to HeelA few weeks after my novel The Setup Man was published in March 2014, I got a call from my agent, who reported...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jan. 13, 2016Last comment by Nick Taylor, on Jan 19, 2016 at 11:07 am | 3 comments | 5277 Views
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Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon, and the debate over the National Book AwardGordon, Jaimy. Lord of Misrule. (McPherson & Co., 2010). Over the holidays I visited my 90-year-old grandmother in New York City. A widow for the last thirteen...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jan. 21, 2014Last comment by shaggy1991, on Aug 21, 2017 at 3:45 am | 2 comments | 6192 Views
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The Empty House by Nathan OatesOates, Nathan. The Empty House. (Willow Springs Editions, 2013).
You'd never know it by glancing at bookstore shelves, but there are more short...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Dec. 11, 2013Last comment by Mary Tevlin, on Dec 11, 2013 at 8:29 pm | 2 comments | 8456 Views
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Clarifying the Process of CanonizationThank you to all the readers who have commented on my...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jan. 26, 2015Last comment by Contrarian, on Feb 1, 2015 at 4:31 pm | 2 comments | 6542 Views
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Another Case for Reparations: Team Seven by Marcus BurkeIn May The Atlantic published a cover story by the African-American critic Ta-Nehisi Coates called
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jul. 15, 2014Last comment by Kary, on Jul 19, 2014 at 11:08 am | 1 comment | 5819 Views
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Call it a novel: Dirty Love by Andre Dubus IIILucky is the fiction writer whose stories take 300 pages to tell. For the last twenty years at least, the fiction market has been mainly a market for novels. Agents...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jul. 22, 2014Last comment by Mark Weiss, on Jul 23, 2014 at 11:11 pm | 1 comment | 7276 Views
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The Best Novel I've Read This YearNoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur / Little, Brown, 2013) A book of fiction can be memorable in a number of ways -- the setting may stick...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Nov. 20, 2013Last comment by Anita Felicelli, on Nov 23, 2013 at 2:15 pm | 1 comment | 15855 Views
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The Story of a Novel, Part 1In less than a month, my third novel,
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Feb. 11, 2014Last comment by Sally Ashton, on Feb 11, 2014 at 7:24 pm | 1 comment | 7287 Views
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SJSU Center for Steinbeck Studies to Honor Author Khaled Hosseini on Weds Sept 10One of the highlights of my job as director of the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State is the annual
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Aug. 18, 2014Last comment by Libby Parisi, on Aug 23, 2014 at 2:44 pm | 1 comment | 8296 Views
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Turning to a Life of Crime (The Story of a Novel, Part 2)In my last post I explained how I went to India and came back with a novel about the...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Feb. 18, 2014Last comment by Cathy Kirkman, on Feb 19, 2014 at 5:26 pm | 1 comment | 7897 Views
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How's the Book Doing???I have plenty of writer friends, but I live on the Peninsula, so most of my daily interactions are with Silicon Valley people: engineers, managers, marketers, financiers......
Original post made by Nick Taylor on May. 28, 2014Last comment by DZR, on Jul 14, 2014 at 9:03 pm | 1 comment | 29649 Views
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Baseball and Books - What's the Connection?I'm strange. Years ago this used to bother me, but ever since I got serious about writing, I stopped worrying about my incongruities. I'm oddly shaped. I don't prefer...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Sep. 30, 2014Last comment by Ron Kaplan, on Oct 28, 2014 at 7:48 am | 1 comment | 5256 Views
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It's Now a Series! Story of a Novel, Part 6My first detective novel, The Setup Man, was published in March, and I've written a number of posts on this site about the publishing...
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jul. 8, 2014Last comment by Phyllis Williams, on Oct 11, 2014 at 7:40 pm | 1 comment | 6745 Views
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The Heyday of Malcolm MargolinIf you've ever browsed the gift shop of a California state park, historical site, or museum, you've seen Malcolm Margolin's work. Books published by
Original post made by Nick Taylor on Jan. 30, 2015There are no comments yet. 7294 Views
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