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Missing Malcolm X Writings, Long a Mystery, Are Sold – The New York Times

Author News / By Mary Daniels Brown / July 27, 2018

The title page for an unpublished manuscript related to Malcolm X’s autobiography, one of several long-rumored fragments that were sold on Thursday.CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times By Jennifer Schuessler July 26, 2018 16 For a quarter century, they have been the stuff of myth among scholars: three missing chapters from “The Autobiography of […]

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Book Recommendations, Last Week's Links, Reading / By Mary Daniels Brown / July 23, 2018

What I’ve been reading around the web recently. Can Reading Make You Happier? An interesting history of bibliotherapy, or the use of reading to help “people deal with the daily emotional challenges of existence.” For all avid readers who have been self-medicating with great books their entire lives, it comes as no surprise that reading

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Author News, Book Recommendations, Fiction, Last Week's Links / By Mary Daniels Brown / July 16, 2018 / Anne Tyler, thriller

100 Books to Read Before You Die When you find yourself not knowing what book to pick up next, here’s a list that contains “a mix of modern fiction, true stories, and timeless classics.” The deep roots of writing Was writing invented for accounting and administration or did it evolve from religious movements, sorcery and

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Author News, Fiction, Last Week's Links / By Mary Daniels Brown / July 9, 2018

John Irving, The Art of Fiction No. 93 I’m not a twentieth-century novelist, I’m not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I’m old-fashioned, a storyteller. I’m not an analyst and I’m not an intellectual. WHICH BOOKS DO

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Author Gillian Flynn on “Sharp Objects”

Television / By Mary Daniels Brown / July 8, 2018

The HBO adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel Sharp Objects begins tonight (July 8, 2018). “To me,” she says, “Sharp Objects is a Western. The gunslinger goes back to his town to discover it’s been taken over by the bad guys. And she’s gotta get rid of all the bad stuff. The gunslinger who’s arrived to

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Author News, Fiction, Last Week's Links, Literary History, Nonfiction / By Mary Daniels Brown / July 2, 2018

Internet reading that caught my eye over the past week. Megan Abbott’s Bloodthirsty Murderesses The thriller writer probes the psychological underpinnings of female rage. Because, Abbott says, “girls are darker than boys.” New Black Gothic Sheri-Marie Harrison, associate professor of English at the University of Missouri, explains what she calls the new black Gothic in

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Fiction, Last Week's Links, Reading, Story / By Mary Daniels Brown / June 25, 2018

These are the stories from the internet that piqued my interest over the last week. Why We Don’t Read, Revisited Caleb Crain, in a follow-up to a decade-old report on Americans’ reading habits, reports that the time Americans spend reading continues to decline. “Television, rather than the Internet, likely remains the primary force distracting Americans

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Women’s Prize for Fiction Revealing the 2018 Women’s Prize shortlist… – Women’s Prize for Fiction

Awards & Prizes, Fiction / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 23, 2018

Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Revealing the 2018 Women’s Prize shortlist… – Women’s Prize for Fiction

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12 Books You to Read Before Seeing the Movies this Spring | Off the Shelf

Film / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 2, 2018

A sneak preview of the exciting book-to-film adaptations coming to theaters this spring. Source: 12 Books You to Read Before Seeing the Movies this Spring | Off the Shelf

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Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 – The New York Times

Obituaries / By Mary Daniels Brown / January 23, 2018

“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly.” –Ursula K. Le Guin Source: Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88 – The New York Times

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