Writer McLarty Scores 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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Sooner or later, every professional basketball playerâs career comes to an end. For Todd MacCulloch, that day came earlier than expected.
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NEW YORK -- The nerds are in the hoouusse! On a steaming Saturday, a horn-rimmed posse of software engineers, computer programmers and support technicians  was grooving at a most unlikely spot -- a fierce underground music venue here. The act: MC Chris -- king of the burgeoning world of "nerdcore...
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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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Author Janet Evanovich talks about writing, New Jersey and living the dream
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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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Short stories these days are often less formulaic than they used to be, as a new anthology demonstrates.
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Garrison Keillor, the celebrity master of ceremonies for tonight's National Book Awards, is celebrating an anniversary despite a small accounting problem. Keillor's live, weekly public radio show is touting its 30th anniversary with its first DVD, released last week, A Prairie Home Companion: 30th Broadcast Season Celebration. It may be the first DVD of a radio program.
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It was the mid-1990s and Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff &#151; well-schooled in crack cocaine, dirty cash and body counts &#151; was tackling a new subject: pulp fiction.
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Small caps are still where it's at for Greg McCrickard.
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Tycho:  I've been au Canada at Hothead since Monday, making a final pass on the entire script and writing new stuff for things we managed to fit into the first ep.  After two days of this process, I feel as though my brain has been dragging a plough through a stubborn field.  Like every other part of this adventure, it's been profoundly educational.  I enjoy it, but there is a constant electrical hum in my skull that I assume is the byproduct of creating a universe in real time.
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Sport: Steve McClaren comes to the crunch point of his management career, says Kevin McCarra.
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As a child, Tom McGannon always had the most decorated house on the block during the Halloween season. At 36, he still does, but the decorations are more high-tech.
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Seven months after leaving, Zach Randolph returned to his original N.B.A. home Friday night and turned in a vintage performance.
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Longfellow's epic poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," was written 152 years ago, but Michael Maglaras thinks the story can be as appealing to modern-day audiences as "Superman" or "Star Wars."
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He fits. That, as much as anything, is why Bill Cowher has lasted. He is the right man in the right town, a hard-nosed guy for a hard-nosed place.
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