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Mark's Contemporary Literature Blog February 2004 Archive

By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Try before you Buy! Mr. Paradise Excerpt

Friday February 27, 2004
Elmore Leonard’s Mr. Paradise is a roller coaster ride of a murder investigation that shows us the seedier sides of people and places usually only seen by cops and their ... Read More

Diary by Chuck Palahniuk

Wednesday February 25, 2004
White collar men secretly fighting each other in parking lots as part of a planned global revenge scheme, the last surviving member of an American death cult rising to fame ... Read More

Video Bookwraps - Check 'em out!

Friday February 20, 2004
More than a video - a video bookwrap combines author interviews in streaming video and audio with book and author biographical information. It's a multimedia book jacket that contains ... Read More

Chat with Mitch Albom in March

Thursday February 19, 2004
Best-selling author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom, will be available to discuss the book with readers in Barnes and Noble's online reading group. For ... Read More

Falling Out of Cars by Jeff Noon

Tuesday February 17, 2004
The world is contemporary Britain, or nearly so-a virus has been let loose that interferes with its victims' ability to interpret symbolic representations: words drift away on pages, street signs ... Read More

Former GE CEO, Jack Welch still Winning

Saturday February 14, 2004
Former General Electric CEO, Jack Welch, is back at the writing table. This time, he's writing a how-to book entitled Winning with Suzy Wetlaufer, former Harvard Business Review editor ... Read More

Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich

Wednesday February 11, 2004
Backed by anonymous investors and armed only with their audacity and their intellect, a team of MIT math students cleaned Vegas out of more than $3 million in a couple ... Read More

Mr. Paradise by Elmore Leonard

Friday February 6, 2004
Elmore Leonard has written more than thirty novels and screenplays including Get Shorty, Tishomingo Blues and Rum Punch. His novel The Big Bounce was recently made into a motion ... Read More

The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard

Friday February 6, 2004
Shirley Hazzard's absence from the literary stage for 20 years has not gone unnoticed. In 1981, the Australian novelist won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit ... Read More

Valentines Day Books

Tuesday February 3, 2004
Now that we've kissed goodbye Father Time and January's dead presidents, it is time for some kisses of a different sort. Valentine's Day is just around the corner! And ... Read More

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