Colin Miner
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An award winning journalist twice nominated by his editors for a Pulitzer Prize, Miner is the former City Editor of The New York Sun. He has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Post, New York Magazine and The Oregonian. His reporting has freed from prison a man wrongfully convicted of murder and another time helped send a corrupt politician to jail.Over the years he has interviewed numerous authors including Norman Mailer, Pete Hamill and John Irving.
Latest Articles
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Cover Stories
Maybe you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but what about simply judging a book's cover?
Mar 17, 2010
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The Corrections Still Powerful
Rereading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen recently, it is hard not to recognize why the book received as much acclaim as it did.
Aug 23, 2009
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Sid Zion, Novelist, Reporter, Dies
It's really hard to do Sid Zion justice if you didn't know him.
He had an enormous sense of self that, at the same time, made you shake your head and want to hear more.
Aug 22, 2009
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Philip Roth's Masterpiece 50 Years Later
Fifty years after it was first published, Philip Roth's first book is just as strong as it must have been when it won the National Book Award.
May 12, 2009
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Looking forward to Elmore Leonard's Latest
Elmore Leonard, one of America's greatest writers, has a present for lovers of quality writing - a new book containing characters from three of his best books.
May 4, 2009
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Remembering Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer, eighteen months after his death, still casts a shadow over American literature.
Apr 29, 2009
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Dan Brown's New Novel Coming September 15th
After years of waiting, the protagonist of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons will return in what Random House calls the biggest print run in its history.
Apr 20, 2009
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Richard Price's Lush Life is a Lush Read
Richard Price, author of the classic Wanderers, has written a new book that shows him - at times - at the absolute top of his game.
Apr 20, 2009
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A Mercy is a Powerful Book
Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer has written a new novel that stand tall in the American canon.
Apr 18, 2009
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Lahiri's Readers Growing Accustomed to Greatness
It's been nine years since Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" came out, bringing the experience of Bengali immigrants to anyone who loves a beautiful sentence.
Feb 19, 2009
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