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    Apr 6, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Author George Saunders headlines 10th annual CityLit Festival

    Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume.
    Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume. "The way things have been going recently, it's as if...

    Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Fiction, Entertainment Events, Authors

    2. Mar 15, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant

  2. Philip Roth 'Unmasked' For PBS Special

    For a man who spent many years avoiding interviews as he turned out a body of work that made him one of America's greatest living writers, Philip Roth, who turns 80 on March 19, is talking quite a bit.
    The Hartford Courant
    For a man who spent many years avoiding interviews as he turned out a body of work that made him one of America's greatest living writers, Philip Roth, who turns 80 on March 19, is talking quite a bit. The writer was interviewed in his 18th century...

    Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, PBS (tv network), Litchfield County, Entertainment Events, Arthur Miller

    3. Mar 13, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Bob Dylan, authors voted into American Academy of Arts and Letters

    The traditionally staid American Academy of Arts and Letters is both charmed and flummoxed by Bob Dylan. The academy announced Wednesday that it voted the musician into its ranks -- its first rock musician ever. But he will be an honorary member: Not for the first time, people couldn't figure out how to classify Dylan.
    The traditionally staid American Academy of Arts and Letters is both charmed and flummoxed by Bob Dylan. The academy announced Wednesday that it voted the musician into its ranks -- its first rock musician ever. But he will be an honorary member: Not...

    Tags: Arts, Meryl Streep, Music Industry, Neil LaBute, Entertainment

    4. Mar 12, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Ryan McIlvain's novel 'Elders' goes inside the Mormon faith

    During the 2012 presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney's openness about his Mormon faith brought to the surface many of the generalizations Americans maintain about what it means to be a Mormon. Ryan McIlvain's debut novel "<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/216619/elders-by-ryan-mcilvain">Elders</a>" might serve as a fascinating and lively fictional corrective&nbsp;&mdash; a portrait of what it can mean to be a Mormon missionary &mdash; complete with all the doubts, hesitations and temptations that come with the territory.
    During the 2012 presidential election, Republican candidate Mitt Romney's openness about his Mormon faith brought to the surface many of the generalizations Americans maintain about what it means to be a Mormon. Ryan McIlvain's debut novel "Elders"...

    Tags: Belief and Faith, Religion and Belief, Brazil, Mitt Romney, Authors

    5. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Biblioracle: Saluting the Bildungsroman

    I've been spending my holiday teaching break trying to finish a manuscript for a young adult coming-of-age novel I'm working on, which has me thinking a lot about coming-of-age novels, which has me wondering if all good novels aren't coming-of-age novels....

    Tags: Jeffrey Eugenides, Arts and Culture, Fiction, Literature, Stewart O'Nan

    6. Jan 11, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. 'Magical Journey' by Katrina Kenison

    In this moving memoir, Katrina Kenison beckons readers into her world and proves to be an insightful guide and companion through the vicissitudes of life. After the death of a friend, and when her youngest son leaves their rural New Hampshire home to...

    Tags: Book, Elizabeth Taylor, Authors

    7. Jan 7, 2013 |Story| Winchester Sun

  7. Comic books, trains on tap at Clark County Public Library

    There are two new displays in the Clark County Public Library foyer this month. Stop by and take a look at them next time you drop by.
    Clark County Public Library Adult Services Librarian
    There are two new displays in the Clark County Public Library foyer this month. Stop by and take a look at them next time you drop by. On the right side of the foyer is a display of comics from days when comics were actually comic, funny, instead of...

    Tags: Cartoons, Ingrid Bergman, Lobbying, Entertainment, Humphrey Bogart

    8. Jan 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Evan S. Connell Jr. dies at 88; iconoclastic novelist, historian

    Evan S. Connell Jr., a literary iconoclast whose writings as a novelist, poet, essayist and historian won the admiration of critics and a cult-like following of discerning readers with books on subjects as eclectic as Midwestern provincialism, the...

    Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Reviews, Joanne Woodward, Arts and Culture, Fiction

    9. Jan 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. George Saunders gets real in new story collection

    For George Saunders, the lines between utopia and dystopia, between realism and science fiction, between humor and horror, have always been fine. Never is it more true, though, than in his new collection of short stories, &ldquo;Tenth of December.&rdquo; Saunders has stripped these stories of the skewed settings that marked his earlier works, concentrating instead on rendering a very real, very genuine world and all the emotion that flows within it. A streak of absurdity still runs through it, but it's much more organic in nature.&nbsp;&nbsp;
    For George Saunders, the lines between utopia and dystopia, between realism and science fiction, between humor and horror, have always been fine. Never is it more true, though, than in his new collection of short stories, “Tenth of December.”...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, George Saunders, Human Interest, Fiction, Petroleum Industry

    10. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Nathan Englander examines identity

    Every journalist's nightmare is the interview with the subject who responds to questions with one-sentence (or even one-word) answers. Fortunately, the writer Nathan Englander — who was in Chicago recently as the inaugural Crown Speaker Series...

    Tags: Michael Chabon, Religion and Belief, Nassau County, The Washington Post, Long Island

    11. Dec 7, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. John Updike, art critic

    Shortly before he died, John Updike paid tribute to that great painter of portraits, John Singer Sargent. &ldquo;We're drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do, and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort,&rdquo; Updike said in a 2008 interview. &ldquo;We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills. Sargent misses getting top marks because he made it look easy.&rdquo;
    Shortly before he died, John Updike paid tribute to that great painter of portraits, John Singer Sargent. “We're drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do, and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a...

    Tags: John Singleton, Arts, Nabi, Arts and Culture, Artists

    12. Dec 4, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. The 2012 Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to Nancy Huston

    England's most feared literary prize was announced Tuesday night -- "awarded" wouldn't be the right word, because the winning author was not in attendance. That was Nancy Huston, who took the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/hustons-infrared-wins-bad-sex-fiction-prize-200144196.html">2012 Bad Sex in Fiction Award</a> for her novel "Infrared."
    England's most feared literary prize was announced Tuesday night -- "awarded" wouldn't be the right word, because the winning author was not in attendance. That was Nancy Huston, who took the 2012 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for her novel "Infrared." The...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, France, Literature, Google+

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