Dark and Stormy Night Wins Bulwer Lytton Prize
Rephah Berg of Oakland won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for horrible writing with a sentence about a rocky relationship and a squashed toilet paper image. Judges praised the blend of atrocious and appropriate diction. Berg, a 25-year copy editor, will receive $250 and has previously won in the detective category.
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Associated Press
San Jose
Calif
Bulwer. Lytton
Rephah Berg
Oakland
Angela
Tom
San Jose State University
Scott Rice
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Paul Clifford
Rice
Berg
Bulwer-Lytton
University of California, Berkeley
Best Sellers Weekly Fiction and Nonfiction Lists
Publishers Weekly reveals top hardcover fiction and nonfiction leaders, with titles by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Alice Sebold, James Pattar son, Peter de Jonge, Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus, and Stephen L. Carter. Nonfiction leaders include Ann Coulter, Phillip C. McGraw, Spencer Johnson, John McEnroe, and Bill Phillips. Mass market and trade paperback highlights feature Nicholas Sparks, Rebecca Wells, Nora Roberts, Nora Roberts again, Richard Russo, and Robert Kiyosaki.
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Publishers Weekly
Tim LaHaye
Jerry B. Jenkins
Tyndale
Alice Sebold
Litle, Brown
James Pattarson
Peter de Jonge
Little, Brown
Emma McLaughlin
Nicola Kraus
Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter
Knopf
Ann Coulter
Crown
Phillip C. McGraw
Simon & Schuster
Spencer Johnson
Putnam
John McEnroe
James Kaplan
Body For Life
Bill Phillips
Michael D'Orso
HarperColling
Franklin County 1930 census film arrives for research use
The 1930 census microfilm for Franklin County has arrived and beside Franklin the reel includes Grant Graham and Greenwood. The county file shows William E Ikenberry from Appanoose Township and his household details. The reel preserves township order and handwritten clarity and will aid genealogists despite limited indexing.
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Franklin County
Franklin County Genealogical Society
Franklin
Grant
Graham
Greenwood
Kansas
William E. Ikenberry
Appanoose Township
Virginia
John M. Ward
William
U.S
Lisa Wellman
Heritage Quest
Jeanne Bickerstaff
Ottawa
New
LDS Family History Center
Willow Lane
Salt Lake City
Thomas Jay Kemp
Kemp
William J. Little
Death Valley
Georgia
Graphic novels gain wider audience beyond comics
Hollywood influence boosts graphic novels as a serious literary form. Editors, publishers, and bookstores report growing demand for longer, sophisticated stories across genres from humor to biography. Sales rise, with 1.5 million books sold year to date, up 700,000 from last year.
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Muscatine, Iowa
Collins
Dick Tracy
Richard Piers Rayner
Calvin Reid
Publisher's Weekly
Reid
Maus
DC Comics
Joe Sacco
Gorazde
Bosnia
Pantheon
Doubleday
Hollywood
Hell
Jack the Ripper
Johnny Depp
Dios
Neilsen BookScan
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