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11 Literary Friendships We Can Learn From Although from a somewhat unorthodox source (accreditedonlinecolleges.com), this article presents fascinating information on the following literary friendships: Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus George Sand and Gustave
Harlan Coben Floods the Zone – WSJ.com
Harlan Coben Floods the Zone – WSJ.com “The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don’t care if anyone reads it,” Mr. Coben says. “A writer without a reader doesn’t exist.” A good introduction to one of my favorite writers, Harlan Coben. Related Blog Posts:
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South Korean novelist Shin Kyung-sook’s ‘Please Look After Mom’ wins Man Asian Literary Prize – The Washington Post
South Korean novelist Shin Kyung-sook’s ‘Please Look After Mom’ wins Man Asian Literary Prize – The Washington Post She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian award in its five-year history. The ceremony was Thursday evening in Hong Kong.
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The private lives of great writers What would we do without literary criticism wars? Just how relevant is an author’s private life to our appreciation or understanding of his or her work? Many would argue that we should disregard it entirely. Others (myself included) might point out that while you can thoroughly enjoy a novel
National Book Critics Circle Awards Go to Pearlman, Jasanoff, Gaddis
The National Book Critics Circle Awards for the publishing year 2011 went to Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman fiction, Liberty’s Exiles by Maya Jasanoff nonfiction, George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis biography, The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok autobiography, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer criticism, and Space,
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Athena’s Library, The Quirky Pillar Of Providence NPR offers a look at the Providence Athenaeum in Providence, RI, USA: With a bit of reverence, librarians carefully wind an antique library clock near the circulation desk in a temple of learning called the Providence Athenaeum. This is one of the oldest libraries in the United States,
“The Chalk Girl” by Carol O’Connell
O’Connell, Carol. The Chalk Girl (2011)Audiobook by Recorded Books Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat When a little red-haired girl with blue eyes shows up in Central Park and hugs everyone who will let her, psychologist Charles Butler’s cleaning woman, Mrs. Ortega, knows something is amiss. She takes the little girl to Butler’s house, where he
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Trending: Read ’em and weep… the grisly life of the post-mortem biog – Features – Books – The Independent
Trending: Read ’em and weep… the grisly life of the post-mortem biog – Features – Books – The Independent The funeral’s barely over before the tribute books start appearing – expect Whitney Houston’s any day now. John Walsh examines an ugly industry
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Breakfast with Dr. Seuss In honor of the upcoming movie The Lorax, green eggs and ham at IHOP Dmitri Nabokov, Steward of Father’s Literary Legacy, Dies at 77 Dmitri Nabokov, the son of Vladimir Nabokov, who tended to the legacy of his father with