The lists of best books for 2013 are accumulating quickly. Here are some that I’ve found so far. The 10 Best Books of 2013 Courtesy of The New York Times, the five best works of fiction and of nonfiction. Best Books of 2013 Goodreads readers have spoken. See their top choices for the year in […]
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National Book Awards go to James McBride, George Packer – latimes.com.
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AP News: Mexican author wins Spain Cervantes letters prize.
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Barbara Park, a former class clown who channeled her irreverence into the million-selling mishaps of grade schooler Junie B. Jones, has died. She was 66. Park died Friday after a long battle with ovarian cancer, according to a statement released Sunday by Random House Books for Young Readers. She was a longtime resident of Scottsdale,
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Doris Lessing, Nobel-winning writer, dies at 94 – The Washington Post. Sad news.
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What’s old is new again in the pages of “Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects.” If you like to write and pursue other creative endeavors, you’ll want to learn more about this new literary publication from Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. It’s connected with the school’s master of fine arts program in creative
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Lynn Coady has been named the 2013 winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her short story collection Hellgoing, published by House of Anansi Press. via Lynn Coady Wins The 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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Robert McCloskey Sketches for “Make Way for Ducklings” Born in 1914 in Hamilton, Ohio, Robert McCloskey came to Boston to attend the now-defunct Vesper George Art School. He left to live in New York for a time and established a career as an author and illustrator in the late 1930s. Over the years, he became
There’s no denying that the state of the world is reflected in our favorite books of 2013. Among our top 10 are narratives that range from the war on terror to a middle Eastern country in the iron grip of a dictator to hard times much closer to home. In others, history — factual, or
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The manuscripts of Emily Dickinson have long been scattered across multiple archives, meaning scholars had to knock on numerous doors to see all the handwritten drafts of a poet whose work went almost entirely unpublished in her lifetime. The online Emily Dickinson Archive, to be inaugurated on Wednesday, promises to change all that by bringing
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