Annie Proulx no longer at home on the range – Los Angeles Times: “I wish I’d never written it,” prize-winning author Annie Proulx says of her most famous story, “Brokeback Mountain,” which was made into a popular movie. Now Proulx, age 73, who “has often criticized the literary establishment for knowing nothing about what goes […]
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American Publishers and Foreign Languages at the Frankfurt Book Fair – NYTimes.com: As a follow-up to several previous posts about the recent announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Motoko Rich, writing from the Frankfurt Book Fair, explains why most Americans had never heard of the winner: Although there are exceptions among the big publishing
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The Best Foreign Books You’ve Never Heard Of : NPR: French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. If most Americans have never heard of this accomplished author of more than 30 novels, essays and story collections, perhaps it’s because there is so little emphasis on international books in the
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A whale of a debate over ‘Moby Dick’ | csmonitor.com: Please, spare us any more giant mammal jokes! Here in Massachusetts we’ve had to listen to every possible commentator refer to it as a ‘whale of a debate,’ but, after a lively discussion in our state House of Representatives we are now a step closer
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I’m working on a research proposal for school right now. As exhilarating as it is to be getting near working on my dissertation, this phase is very time-consuming. Consequently, I’m resorting to a summary list of the tabs I’ve left open in my browser for far too long in hopes of being able to write
Nobel literature winner, France’s Le Clezio is little known in the U.S.: For those Americans seeking great foreign authors who have yet to be discovered in English, the Nobel Prize judges present a fresh candidate: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, this year’s winner of the literature prize. Here’s some background for American readers on the latest
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Le Clezio — who’s he? – Los Angeles Times: This year’s Nobel laureate for literature is little-known in the States. Perhaps this is evidence of our bias. Or maybe it’s a product of the Swedish Academy’s willful dismissal of U.S. writers.
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Did you hear John McCain call Barack Obama “that one” last night? It’s not quite as bad as “you people,” but it’s close.
National Reading Group Month: Reading groups are proving that good books bring people together. National Reading Group Month salutes reading groups. It fosters their growth and promotes the love of literature. It’s an opportunity for reading groups to reflect on their accomplishments and plan for the future — the perfect time to join or start
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