New York City (CNN) -- The two reigning champs of a hot dog eating contest joined their challengers for a weigh-in as they hope to devour their way into the record books Wednesday in New York City.
In 1992, the prolific poet, playwright and author of over 50 books, Eve Merriam died in New York City.
But what I've found is that in this world of how-to books and writer's advice and so forth, and in Kansas City we don't have writer's workshops like you do in the East or the West Coast, but in all these things the discussion is entirely about fiction.
Part of the answer lies in the fact that the New York publishing establishment has a weakness for books that portray the upstart city of the West, its chief cultural rival, in the worst possible light.
Gabriel Taussig, the chief of the city's administrative law division, pointed to two Board of Health decisions that were challenged in courts and remain on the books today: window guards on buildings with children in them and fluoridation of the city's water supply.
Local historian Brian Lee has documented the city of his birth in 16 books, and says Cardiff has seen it all before.
For all that, as three new books about the city attest, nothing really stands still in Jerusalem.
Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films, but if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.
Last week, Penguin announced a pilot program to allow public libraries in New York City and Brooklyn to lend out its e-books via 3M's Cloud Drive service.
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As regards new writing about Barcelona I think one of the tendencies is to avoid a kind of picturesque or anthropological view of the city, which is what has happened a little bit in books which have concentrated as Barcelona as a setting.
World Book Capital is an annual title bestowed by UNESCO to a city in recognition of the outstanding quality of its programs and initiatives to promote books and reading.
In Kansas City, we too often watched the demise of good stores full of smart folks who loved books.
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