Remembering Memorial Day
It’s not about the barbecues or the paid vacation day.
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Monday Miscellany
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
Monday Miscellany
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
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Authors weigh in on their favorite page-to-screen adaptations The opening of the latest film version of The Great Gatsby has focused interest on adaptations of books into movies. Here authors Dennis Lehane, Chuck Palahniuk, Judy Blume, Bret Easton Ellis, Warren Adler, and Kelly Oxford discuss “the times Hollywood got it right.” A Nigerian-‘Americanah’ Novel About
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Books —> Film The latest adaptation of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is garnering most of the attention in this category right now, but there’s other news as well. Here’s some news on upcoming films: Will Baz Luhrmann’s noise dampen ‘Great Gatsby’s’ joys? “Seattle Times movie critic Moira Macdonald revisits the book’s melancholy beauty prior to
Edgar and Christian Book Awards
Last night the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. And Publishers Weekly has the list of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association 2013 Christian Book Award winners.
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Monday Miscellany
I am in the throes of preparing for a 2,800-mile relocation trip. Monday Miscellany will return in a few weeks. In the meantime, you can find new material on Literature & Psychology.
Amazon Buys Goodreads
Amazon Buys Goodreads. Just in case you missed the day’s hottest literary topic. . .
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Scientific Explanations for Why Spoilers Are So Horrible Like Jennifer Richler, I have the most recent season of Downton Abbey tucked away on my DVR, though I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. But because of the internet and, especially Twitter, I already know what big plot turns I’ll find when I do sit
Story Circle Network: 2012 Sarton Memoir Award Announced
Story Circle Network: 2012 Sarton Memoir Award Announced. (Austin, TX. March 22, 2013)—The Story Circle Network (SCN) is pleased to announce that Monica Wood has been granted the Sarton Women’s Memoir Award for her book When We Were the Kennedys (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). The book tells the story of Wood’s mill town childhood in
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