The Bookstore That Changed My Life

April 26, 2013 Subscribe · Forward The Bookstore That Changed My Life Josh Hanagarne is the author of THE WORLD'S STRONGEST LIBRARIAN ($26, Gotham, May 2nd 2013) and is a librarian in Salt Lake City, Utah. The sign on the door said EXPERIENCED BOOKS. I found the store while wandering around my new neighborhood after moving to Salt Lake City. The door opened and a guy walking a dog exited. He said, "Go in man, you'll definitely leave with something." This reminded me of the shop in Stephen King's Needful Things. But then, books remind me of everything, and everything reminds me of books.  Continue reading... 7 Unhelpful Tips For Writers Glenn Close's Sister Writing Memoir About Mental Illness 'Game Of Thrones' Actor Was Banned From Press Event And The Most Well-Read City Is... PHOTOS: History Of War Dogs 10 Unbelievable But True Stories First Prize For American Fiction Announced By Library Of Congress PHOTOS: Awesome Literacy Campaign Wins Major Award And The Most Well-Read City Is... WENDY WEBB A Dark and Stormy Night: 10 Tips for Writing a Paranormal Mystery Were there hard and fast rules I followed when writing? Not likely. I'm lazier than that. Was there a formula for a succesful novel? If there were, we'd all be bestselling authors. What was I going to tell this room full of people who had paid money to glean knowledge from me? Continue reading... DAMIAN BARR Surviving Margaret Thatcher Late last Monday morning, my phone bleeped a morbid morse code as tweets and texts surged in. "Thatcher dead!", "She's gone!" and "Talk about timing!" because my memoir was about to be published. Continue reading... L.R. LEHMANN Coming Up Big: The Story of Muggsy Bogues "To be honest, it seems like I've been five-three my whole life. I don't ever remember growing. In elementary school I was five-three. In high school I was five-three. It's strange, isn't it? I think my mom was the first woman ever to give birth to a five-three baby." Continue reading... ILANA TEITELBAUM Written in Blood: The Son by Philipp Meyer The Son is a novel that is an epic in the truest sense of the word: massive in scope, replete with transformations in fortune and fate, and drenched in the blood of war. Continue reading... DAVID HENRY STERRY National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Founder Chris Baty on Writing, Writers, Doing and Dreaming We watched as he built this strange, beautiful community of lunatics and dreamers who, every November, write a 50,000 word book in 30 days. NaNoWriMo, as it's called, now has hundreds of thousands of participants all over the world, writing writing writing. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003