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Share.. American supermodel Tyra Banks who is never far from the spotlight with her ubiquitous television appearances were her commercial breakthrough. The talented Banks is the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality television show America’s Next Top Model, co-creator of True Beauty, and she is the host of her own talk show, The [...]

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Share..Last weekend the last of the remaining Borders bookstores finally shut its doors. A midst jazz and grandiose red-and-yellow signs announcing the “Final Days” of the Borders store in Queens in New York City, customers snatched up deals on coffee machines and used chairs. At a Borders store in Cincinnati, Ohio, readers were zealous to [...]

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Share..A bookshop that was originally founded and opened by the original Winnie the Pooh’s Christopher Robin will close according to a report by the BBC. In Dartmouth, England, the Harbour Bookshop was opened in 1951 by Christopher Robin Milne, the son of Pooh author A.A. Milne. The bookshop was a destination for Pooh fans, however [...]

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Share..One book publisher recently realized that children, even from the age before they can read, pick up cereal boxes from the breakfast table and scan the back of them for information and games. By replacing the games with an excerpt from a book, perhaps it will spark an interest in literature. Puffin is the publisher [...]

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Share..Senior Italian novelist, Umberto Eco, visited the 25th Jerusalem International Book Fair. At a press conference he said: “When you finish a book, it’s like a child…It takes two years to take care of it. Just like a child, you have to feed it and polish its ass. By the third year it starts to [...]

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Share..After the smoke of the American Civil War had cleared, the country was bewildered, frightened and heart-broken. The great cry was for catharsis, especially in the form of literature. Yet, 1,000,000 dead on the battlefields left the national psyche in a state of mind too depressed for magic and romance. It was in this era [...]

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Share..Adam Levin is the 33-year-old writer of “The Instructions“, a 1,030 page debut novel about a violent yet genius 10-year-old with a Messiah complex. Levin says he was a smoker for a long time and has a parrot who he is protective of and his apartment smells and looks like “an old man’s apartment.” In [...]

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Share..Philip Roth first became known in the late 1950s and 60s for writing a new kind of story about Jewish identity. His novels and stories tend to tell the story of young Jewish American men, estranged from their cultural Hebrew identity. Roth’s latest novel, Nemesis, is set in Newark, N.J. in 1944 – the town [...]

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Share.. Listen, if you’re going to take advice from a celebrity, I think that Mollie Ringwald should be a pretty trustworthy candidate. “Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick” is her new book. She was nice enough to answer some questions for us. The book serves up a literary dish of [...]

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Share..The etiquette expert Elizabeth Post, known for writing books and magazine columns on manners, has died. She was 89. She died last Saturday in the southwest Florida city of Naples. She was actually the granddaughter-in-law of the country’s foremost etiquette expert, Emily Post. In 1965, five years after the elder Post passed away, Elizabeth took [...]

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Share..Here at My Unique Gift Idea we love seeing original functions for recycled books, so we were really psyched to see that Manhattan’s McNally Jackson Books has integrated an incredible array of bound book decor in their new renovated cafe. The independent bookseller joined forces with Front Studio to renovate the bookstore’s existing café into [...]

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