O’Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Prize for Military Writing – NYTimes.com Tim O’Brien, the author of “The Things They Carried” and “In the Lake of the Woods,” among other works, has been named as the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
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This past week was particularly rich in literary-related stories. Here’s a selection chosen for its variety. Elizabeth Wein’s top 10 dynamic duos in fiction Some characters just have to exist in pairs: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Thing 1 and Thing 2. Elizabeth Wein’s excellent novel Code Name Verity
The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards June 15 in New Orleans. The winners were: via Bram Stoker Winners Announced.
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Ann Aguirre Speaks Out on Sexism in Science Fiction A couple days ago, Ann Aguirre wrote a stirring blog exposing the ugly beast that resides in the science fiction field. According to Ann’s blog: I’ve held my silence when I probably shouldn’t have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I
Learning to learn: the heart of reading Ally of Scoop.it (the curation service that I use for Literature & Psychology) describes how she went about learning to read for deep meaning. She based her strategy on an article by Maryanne Wolf, the John DiBiaggio Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts, and
A.M. Homes wins Women’s Prize. A.M. Homes’s novel May We Be Forgiven won the award, which featured an array of top-notch nominees. But the controversy over whether a prize for fiction written by women should exist at all continues. Read that story here, too.
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Zocalo Public Square Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit daily ideas exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. The entire initiative is a project of the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and the New America Foundation, and its goal is to “explore connection, place, big ideas, and what it means to
It’s not about the barbecues or the paid vacation day.
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A Pearl Buck Novel, New After 4 Decades Big recent literary news is the discovery of a final novel by Pearl S. Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The manuscript was discovered in a storage unit in Texas. Buck’s son, Edgar S. Walsh, believes that Buck completed the manuscript
The Werewolf Novel as Post-9/11 Political Allegory? If you’ve hung around Notes in the Margin for a while, you probably know that I usually don’t review fiction about vampires, werewolves, or zombies. I understand that lots of people see these entities as metaphors for society, or for the human condition, or perhaps for political and
