50 States of Literature: Georgia On Our Minds | Columbia Spectator Tayari Jones’ debut, Leaving Atlanta, is set during the 1979 Atlanta Child Murders, at which time a total of 29 black children were killed. Three kids tell their stories: Tasha, struggling daily to stay in favor with her friends, Rodney, branded as too soft […]
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Four quite different memoirists help to prove the vitality of the literary form John Marshall, book critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, briefly discusses four memoirs that “demonstrate the genre’s vitality and variety.” The four cover very different subjects: childhood in Africa divorce alternative lifestyle–“living green” mental illness
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50 States of Literature: Exploring in Maryland | Columbia Spectator Columbia Spectator‘s 50 States of Literature series continues with Anne Tyler’s novel A Patchwork Planet, where the main character, Barnaby Gaitlin, lives just outside of Baltimore: The quiet neighborhood outside of Baltimore serves to nestle Barnaby with its “big, tall spruce trees” and “damp, chilly
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50 States of Literature: Meandering Through West Virginia | Columbia Spectator From the hills of West Virginia comes Ann Pancake’s debut Strange as This Weather Has Been, based on real events and interviews from an Appalachian mining town. Lace See and Jimmy Make fall in love in the era of the Buffalo Creek Disaster. Twenty
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50 States of Literature: Heads in Hawaii | Columbia Spectator The Columbia Spectator heads to Hawaii with the novel Heads by Harry: Lois-ann Yamanaka is exceptionally gifted at making the unusual and unsavory seem exotic and entrancing—taxidermy is “true art, not a painting or poem, inaccurate and prone to interpretation, but breathing life into flesh
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50 States of Literatue: A Trip to Wild Alaska | Columbia Spectator The Columbia Spectator is back, with its entry for Alaska, The Man Who Swam With Beavers, a collection of short stories by Nancy Lord. “At the heart of the conservation debate, and with a population divided between Native Americans, recent locals, and businessmen,
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50 States of Literature: Wide Open North Dakota | Columbia Spectator Here’s the entry for North Dakota, Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River, which describes “a land where the wilderness inspires not only awed romance, but also a cosmic sense of fear and danger.”
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Oprah Makes Her “Boldest Choice” – 1/30/2008 9:27:00 AM – Publishers Weekly Oprah’s going all out with this book club choice, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle: Saying she was “over the moon excited” about the book, Oprah described it as an extension of her life’s mission, “to lead people
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50 States of Literatue: Next Stop, Michigan | Columbia Spectator The Columbia Spectator offers up the second in its series of the 50 states in literature with its entry for Michigan: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I’ve not read this one, although Eugenides’s Middlesex was very popular with my book group. Spectator praises Virgin
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Fifty States of Literature, Starting With Alabama | Columbia Spectator The Spectator here supplies you, free of charge, the first of a list of 50 books that we think capture the essence of each state, all while telling a great story along the way. The Spectator, the campus publication of Columbia University in New York
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