James Dickerson
Content by James Dickerson
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When I caught up with Larry Brown, he was in the shower. Right away, I knew I wasn't dealing with an ordinary writer.
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Backstage and on the page with the King of television talk. For political junkies and devotees of behind-the-scenes drama, a new book by CNN's Larry King is a dream come true.
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"I wrote it with some pain and so on, but it was not until after I finished that I thought my God, what have I done?
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As the holidays approach, bookstore shelves are already beginning to fill with gift books that are big, bold, beautiful and beguiling.
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A little over two years ago, Jill Conner Browne was a one-on-one weight lifting instructor at the Jackson, Mississippi YMCA.
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When Mississippi author Willie Morris died in August of this year, President Bill Clinton said the nation had lost a national treasure. Of course, we lost more than that.
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Is Nashville becoming a hotbed of mystery and suspense? You'd think so, judging from these two mysteries, both written by Nashville writers.
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Is Nashville becoming a hotbed of mystery and suspense? You'd think so, judging from these two mysteries, both written by Nashville writers.
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The Langhorne sisters of Virginia were notable for many reasons, not the least of which was their hell-bent determination to use their polished social skills to flee the South and the down-on-its-l
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At the onset of the Civil War, Mississippian Gawain Harper is ambivalent about the Southern fight for independence, preferring instead to focus his efforts on teaching English at a school for girls
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Some children's books are written to entertain. Others are written to educate in an entertaining manner. Rainy Day falls in the latter category.
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I first came across Joe Eszterhas in the early 1970s when the Baltimore Sun asked me to review his debut book, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse.
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Hal Crowther writes prose the way Stevie Ray Vaughan played guitar: with inexplicable passion, punctuated by explosive bursts of finger picking laid down over an inviting carpet of swampy soul.
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Books of Olympic proportion Women were an afterthought to the modern Olympic Games that began in 1896.
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Books of Olympic proportion Women were an afterthought to the modern Olympic Games that began in 1896.
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Books of Olympic proportion Women were an afterthought to the modern Olympic Games that began in 1896.
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Books of Olympic proportion Women were an afterthought to the modern Olympic Games that began in 1896.
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Books of Olympic proportion Women were an afterthought to the modern Olympic Games that began in 1896.
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he mix is the message Sourcebooks was not the first trade publisher to package audio CDs, photos, and text into a mixed-media package the publisher of an instructional guitar manual takes that honor
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he mix is the message Sourcebooks was not the first trade publisher to package audio CDs, photos, and text into a mixed-media package the publisher of an instructional guitar manual takes that honor
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Finding the right woman is not easy. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, temperaments, and ages. Very few come with warranties or owner's manuals.
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arry Silver had everything that a man could reasonably want a loving and beautiful wife, a precocious son and a high-profile job as the producer of a popular television talk show.
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rokaw chronicles a generation Tom Brokaw tapped an enormous reservoir of dormant sentiment in 1998 with the publication of The Greatest Generation, available this month for the first time in <
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f jazz is a living art form, it is due in no small part to the leadership of Wynton Marsalis, who has gone, in what seems like the blink of an eye, from being the hot young gun of jazz to being its el
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ear and self-loathing in Boomerland A columnist for The New York Times, author Joe Queenan had a bestseller in 1998 with Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon, a critique of pop
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hat if you dreamed of becoming a writer, slaved for months over a novel, only to discover that it's your law school roommate who has crafted a fantastic debut story?
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Born at the turn of the century, Emmett Miller was a Georgia-raised blackface entertainer who recorded a string of records, mostly in the 1920s, that helped to fill the creative void between ragtim
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Southern literature is filled with characters like the ones who inhabit Crazy in Alabama.
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