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Words Move Me | Today 4:30 am

Words Move Me--Dani Shapiro

Quote: I recently read a memoir I think is one of the best I’ve read in the last ten years: The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham. A moving, gorgeously-written, probing, brilliantly structured attempt to understand her own father’s suicide.
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Dani Shapiro
Author of Slow Motion
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Words Move Me | Today 4:30 am

Words Move Me--Amy Cohen

Quote: Nick Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn’s Half the Sky is riveting. The women in this book are the true heroines of our time: ordinary women who did extraordinary things. Anyone who reads this book will be moved, inspired, and called to action.
By
Amy Cohen
Author of The Late
Bloomers' Revolution
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Joni Evans | 11/19/2009 10:30 am

wOw Celebrates Literature With 'Words Move Me'

The best and the brightest — authors and journalists, actors and directors — give us a peek into their literary pasts
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Words Move Me | 11/18/2009 3:00 am

Words Move Me--Gail Godwin

Quote: The most satisfying ghost story I’ve read is Playmates by A.M. Burrage. A middle-aged bachelor adopts a young girl whose upbringing was so dire she never “learned to play.” In this marvelous tale, she is taught, and her guardian’s horizons are expanded.
By
Gail Godwin
Author of the forthcoming novel
Unfinished Desires
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Words Move Me | 11/17/2009 4:00 am

Words Move Me--Ann Hood

Quote: When I was writing my first novel, I stumbled upon Anne Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. It was the perfect book to help me rethink ideas of character and story. When I finished that novel, I was inspired enough to finish my own.
By
Ann Hood
Author of The Knitting Circle
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Words Move Me | 11/16/2009 5:00 am

Words Move Me - Lori Gottlieb

Quote: Elizabeth McCracken’s An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination has never left me. She takes a woman’s worst nightmare and tells the story with humor, truth and the most exquisite language that can only come from a naked soul.
By
Lori Gottlieb
Author of Stick Figure
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Words Move Me | 11/14/2009 7:00 am

Words Move Me--Luanne Rice

Quote: In J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories, I love "For Esme, With Love and Squalor."  It went straight to my heart, and has stayed there. One character observes that hell is ‘…the suffering of being unable to love.’ How true — then and forever.
By
Luanne Rice
Author of The Deep Blue
Sea For Beginners
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Words Move Me | 11/12/2009 3:30 am

Words Move Me--Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Quote: I love The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins. This great 19th century novel sows the seeds for all mystery novels to come. It’s a book that made me understand that mysteries can be great novels — and it made me want to write them.
By
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Author of Mortal Friends
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Words Move Me | 11/11/2009 2:30 am

Words Move Me--Sally Koslow

Quote: Shortly after I moved to Manhattan, I read Jack Finney’s science fiction novel, Time and Again. It forever altered the way I see the city, as a place inhabited by centuries of ghosts. Sometimes I swear I see them lurking, especially around The Dakota.
By
Sally Koslow
Author of Little Pink Slips
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Words Move Me | 11/10/2009 4:15 am

Words Move Me--Jamie Lee Curtis

Quote: John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is the most important piece of writing I have ever read. It drives me daily to be a better person.
By
Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress, Author, Activist
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Words Move Me | 11/09/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me--Frank Bruni

Quote: I can’t count how many times I’ve read the opening stretch of Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love, awed by how uniquely cinematic the writing and its effect are. You forget you’re reading; you’re tricked into watching a movie in your mind. It’s stunning.
By
Frank Bruni
Author of Born Round
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Words Move Me | 11/09/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me - J. Courtney Sullivan

Quote: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body has an exquisite view of romantic love. "You did not say it first, and neither did I," the narrator says. "Yet when you say it and when I say it, we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them."
By
J. Courtney Sullivan
Author of Commencement
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Words Move Me | 11/06/2009 3:30 am

Words Move Me -- Christopher Buckley

Quote: My ultimate comfort book is Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, which I think I may now have read as many times as I’ve seen the 1982 mini-series. I love it for its language, wit, humor, and nostalgia for a bygone era. I’m a sucker for all that.
By
Christopher Buckley
Author of Losing Mum and Pup
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Words Move Me | 11/05/2009 2:00 am

Words Move Me - Julie Morgenstern

Quote: Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Shaine Cunningham is a book that delighted me, and charmed every friend I’ve ever recommended it to. It’s a tender, quirky, unexpected memoir about a girl growing up in unusual circumstances.
By
Julie Morgenstern
Author of Organizing
from the
Inside Out
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Words Move Me | 11/04/2009 4:15 am

Words Move Me - Marie Brenner

Quote: I keep The Moviegoer by Walker Percy by my bed. On a low day, I turn to p. 13: "To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be on to something is to be in despair." It never fails to lift my spirit.
By
Marie Brenner
Author of Apples and Oranges
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Words Move Me | 11/03/2009 5:00 am

Words Move Me - Campbell Brown

Quote:  The History of Love by Nicole Krauss stayed with me long after I put it down. It is a story of lost love that spans over half a century. Krauss weaves different narratives together so masterfully. I found it romantic, heart-breaking and deeply moving.
By
Campbell Brown
Host of CNN'S "Campbell Brown"
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Words Move Me | 11/02/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me-Sloane Crosley

Quote: I love Dubliners by James Joyce — and specifically the story "Araby," which is an under-loved one. Well, "under-loved" as compared to "The Dead." I read it when I was very young, and think of the ending all the time. It’s heartbreaking and subtle.
By
Sloane Crosley
Author of
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
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Words Move Me | 10/30/2009 4:20 am

Words Move Me-- Veronica Chambers

Quote: "I don’t write poems, but I love them because I can carry them with me like prayers. As Elizabeth Alexander writes in The Venus Hottentot: "Elegant facts await me. Small things in this world are mine."
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Veronica Chambers
Author of Kickboxing Geishas
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Words Move Me | 10/29/2009 3:30 am

Words Move Me - Frank Rich

Quote: I first read Moss Hart’s autobiography Act One at age 10 and have reread it ever since — for its humor, for its romantic portrait of Broadway’s golden age, and for its powerful account of how a child with few resources could realize his dreams.
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Frank Rich
New York Times op-ed columnist
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Words Move Me | 10/28/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me- Myrna Blyth

Quote: Dalia Sofer’s The Septembers of Shiraz is the haunting story of a prosperous Jewish family in Iran right after the Revolution. Suddenly, they become strangers in a land that was once theirs; they survive through the father’s acceptance of a new reality.
By
Myrna Blyth
Editor-in-Chief
BettyConfidential.com
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Words Move Me | 10/27/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me - Jane Hamilton

Quote: The ultimate test of a book for me: can you be in bed with it and stay awake? Joan Silber’s novel, Ideas of Heaven, is so smart, so wise, so funny, and so illuminating about ordinary sorrows and longing,  I was up most of the night marveling.
By
Jane Hamilton
Author of A Map of the World
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Words Move Me | 10/26/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me - Molly Friedrich

Quote: I loved Colum McCann’s Let The Great World Spin so much that just mentioning it, I get a lump in my throat. McCann has a huge heart— his love for his characters and for New York, his adopted city, informs every line of this stunning novel
By
Molly Friedrich
Literary Agent
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Words Move Me | 10/23/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me- Gail Collins

Quote: Here are two great books by people who sit within 20 feet of me at work: Half the Sky, by Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, an amazing story of women in the developing world, and J. Courtney Sullivan’s novel about Smith grads, Commencement.
By
Gail Collins
Author of When Everything
Changed
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Words Move Me | 10/21/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me - Liz Lange

Quote: I’ve always loved Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Its exquisite social satire and landmark romance helped establish my love of books. And it didn’t hurt that my sister and I share the name of two primary characters – Elizabeth and Jane.
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Liz Lange
Fashion Designer
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Words Move Me | 10/21/2009 4:30 am

Words Move Me- Nancy Snyderman

Quote: Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, "No matter how much women prefer to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire them to do so, they must make the voyage of life alone." These words have given me strength when I have not always seen a clear path.
By
Dr. Nancy Snyderman
Author of Diet Myths
That Keep Us Fat
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