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Philosopher Peter Singer Wants You to Give Away Your Moneynew

The premise of The Life You Can Save is simple: With so much conspicuous affluence in the world, especially in the U.S., there's no good reason for so much poverty to exist. Singer's solution? Give away a reasonable percentage of your money.

New Haven Advocate | John Stoehr | 10-27-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, tithing, poverty, Peter Singer, nonprofits

Tom Tomorrow Creates a Kids Book! Yay!new

"I love stepping outside the world of politics, that negativity, so I can do something happy," Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, says in a phone interview from his New Haven work studio.

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 10-13-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dan Perkins, The Very Silly Mayor, children's books, Tom Tomorrow

Jason Rapczynski Writes a Novel in Three Days -- and Gets it Publishednew

For 31 years, the 3-Day Novel Contest has provided an outlet for any writer, would-be or otherwise, to pound the keys and get it done. Bonus: The contest winner works with an editor and gets the novel published by 3-Day Books, which organizes the contest.

New Haven Advocate | David Riedel | 07-07-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: 3-Day Books, 3-Day Novel Contest, Jason Rapczynski, The Videographer, fiction, writing

David Sedaris Talks About Smoking, Blogging and His Personal Encounter with a Decapitated Headnew

One might expect the in-demand Sedaris to be a bit bored by the interview process, but instead he's just like his writing: affable, chatty, relaxed. He makes the not-unreasonable assumption that you know him already, weaving casual references to his life and family into the conversation.

New Haven Advocate | Brianna Snyder | 06-24-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Richard Price is One of Our Best Chroniclers of Street Lifenew

Price's recently released and bestselling eighth novel is Lush Life, another sprawling work. A restaurant worker is gunned down in a gentrifying neighborhood on the Lower East Side of New York, and two streetwise cops hit the pavement to find out what happened. The answer isn't simple, as it never is in Price's stories.

New Haven Advocate | Jim Motavalli | 06-10-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Wire, Lush Life, Richard Price