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Terry Pratchett, author of A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's bestselling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short-form fiction collected into one volume. A BLINK OF THE SCREEN charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job, and the origins of his debut novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the Discworld series.

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Terry Pratchett

No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away --- until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

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Terry Pratchett, REAPER MAN
March 12, 2015

The Long Walk Across the Desert: In Memory of Sir Terry Pratchett

By John Maher
In his introduction to A SLIP OF THE KEYBOARD: Collected Nonfiction by Terry Pratchett, English genre fiction superstar Neil Gaiman wrote of his fri

March 12, 2015

We were so happy to see Daylight Savings Time roll around this past Sunday. With the time change, we also got some warmer temps (which is not always the case). It was even a high of 63 yesterday, and that got everyone storing away their winter boots and breaking out their casual shoes and jackets. While we’re celebrating the sunnier side of things, the lost hour definitely took a toll on our daily routines --- we’ve spotted more people than usual catching a few ZZZ's on the morning commute.

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Author Talk: George Hodgman, author of Bettyville: A Memoir

Mar 12, 2015

George Hodgman is a veteran magazine and book editor who has worked at Simon & Schuster, Vanity Fair and Talk magazine. His recent memoir, BETTYVILLE, is about moving back to Paris, Missouri --- after years spent building his career in Manhattan --- to care for his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. As these two unforgettable characters try to bring their different worlds together, Hodgman reveals the obstacles of Betty’s life and his own struggle for self-respect. In this interview, Hodgman opens up about caring for a family member with dementia, including the challenges he faces daily and the unexpected ways it enriches his life. He also discusses how he wrestled with his own sexual identity, and the role his memoir played in putting his feelings into perspective.

March 12, 2015

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that is now available in paperback. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Friday, March 13th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE CAIRO AFFAIR by Olen Steinhauer. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Spring Cookbooks 2015 RGG

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Graphic Novel Picks for Spring

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