Obama's Peanuts: President writes foreword to Charles Schulz anthology

The US leader has taken a break from being a world statesman to pay tribute in prose to ‘an American treasure’Charlie Brown and Snoopy have found a high-profile supporter in Barack Obama, who has taken a break from running the US to write the foreword to a new volume collecting what the president called an “American treasure”.Out in May from Seattle-based independent publisher Fantagraphics Books, and in April from Canongate in the UK, the volume will be the 25th in a series that has brought together all of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts strips. Previous introductions have been contributed by names from Jonathan Franzen to The Simpsons’ Matt Groening and Schulz’s long-time friend, the tennis star Billie Jean King. Related: Why I loved Charlie Brown and the Peanuts cartoons Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2016-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Obama pens intro to 25th Complete Peanuts volume

US president Barack Obama has written the introduction to the "long-awaited" 25th volume of the Complete Peanuts comic strip series. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Rupert Murdoch tweets Obama isn't 'real black president'

The founder of the global News Corp. media empire, Rupert Murdoch, is suggesting that President Obama isn't a "real black president." Murdoch was praising Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson and his wife on Twitter on Wednesday evening when he wrote: "Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Here are the 6 books on President Obama's summer reading list

President Barack Obama is on Martha's Vineyard for his annual two-week summer holiday, and the White House has released his reading list. Continue reading at Stuff

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Caitlyn Jenner Is on Pace to Break President Obama's Twitter Follower Record

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Duchess of Cambridge writes RAF book foreword

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I Don’t Have To Choose Between Writing About Myself And Writing About The World

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Kelly Link Can’t Write Narrative Before 3pm: And Other Tips For Purposeful Writing

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Don’t write what you know, write what you feel: bestselling authors offer tips on World Book Day

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Jane Smiley on Her Writing Process, Beloved Pets, and Writing in Paris

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“Write the tale that scares you . . . I dare you.” Michaela Coel has some writing advice for us.

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T&F Callanan becomes PA president, Shelley vice-president

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How to Write the Book No One Wants You to Write

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How to Write the Book No One Wants You to Write

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Struggling as an author? Stop writing only what you want to write

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