Writer McLarty Scores Big After Years in Basement
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RIDGEWOOD, N.J.  - Ron McLarty was so convinced he  would never succeed as a novelist that after years of  obsessively churning out book after book in his basement, he  sought the help of a shrink to make him stop.
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RAMONA, California  - When Ray Necochea was building his dream house four years ago, on a whim he wrote the story of his life on a wooden beam below the rooftop, hoping a future relative might serendipitously discover it.
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"An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England" (Algonquin, 320 pages. $24.95), by Brock Clarke: America lives in the age of the memoir and the confessional. It's the defining literary legacy of our time, much as insanely long novels marked the Victorian Age.
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Maybe it's that he's hit retirement age, but Garrison Keillor wasn't afraid to admit that his latest novel was easy to write.
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Do you miss Johnny Carson's comic monologues on the "Tonight" show? So does he, apparently. "When he reads the paper in the morning, he can think of five jokes right off the bat that he wishes he had an outlet for," said Peter Lassally, one of his former producers, who's now helping guide Craig Ferguson's career on CBS' "The Late Late Show."
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Tim McLooneâs dulcet tones can be heard in venues as cavernous as the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford and as cozy as a bar at the Jersey Shore.
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BUTLER, Pa. -- It's always packed for Wing Night at American Legion Post 117, and in the crowd Seamus McCaffery saw the building blocks of his electoral success.
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Records raise new questions about the business practices of the giant mortgage lender at the center of the subprime mess.
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Dell L. Dailey's life has been one long string of secrets.
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âHey Girl!â offers a rare opportunity for East Coast audiences to see Romeo Castellucciâs work.
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Sport: Steve McClaren comes to the crunch point of his management career, says Kevin McCarra.
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With a 90-59 record in five years at Merrimack , Ann McInerney has set some high standards.
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One of America's hottest comics on how he translates sore points into comic relief
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The âBlack Listâ has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.
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With his recent conviction and sentencing, the media baron and author Conrad M. Black has turned to a device called the LongPen to help him hold book signings from afar.
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CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains why convicted virus and worm authors are more likely to do Club Fed than hard time.
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The director of Chandni Bar and Page 3 has much reason to rejoice.