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Books: Vital yet Vulnerable
UC Irvine Today· 8 minutes agoAt the end of class one day last fall, I asked students to reflect on the hostile reception Sula Peace endures upon her homecoming after many years in Toni Morrison’s 1973 ...
Poet John Burnside on drug addiction, his abusive father and winning the ‘British Nobel’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoJohn Burnside still cannot quite believe he is the winner of the 2023 David Cohen Prize for ...
Ken Burns' speech was great, but why so negative about Yiddish?
The Forward· 1 day agoAt Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts last weekend, undergraduates welcomed the acclaimed...
Alice Munro: the short-story writer who was 'as good as it gets'
The Week via Yahoo News· 7 days agoBut this hardly mattered, said The New Yorker, because as the citation for her Nobel Prize in ...
Biblioracle: Remembering Alice Munro, a giant of contemporary literature
Chicago Tribune· 7 days agoCanadian short story writer, and 2013 Nobel laureate in fiction Alice Munro died on May 13 at the...
From 'loser' to laureate: Nobel winner's advice to young scientists
Nature· 6 days ago“10 years ago, I was considered a loser,” she says. Advice she offers is to follow the work of your...
Six non-fiction books you can read in a day
The Economist· 4 hours agoResolved to read more? There may be no more rewarding genre than the short book
Bob Dylan’s music tells a story of determination in ‘Girl from the North Country’ at the Smith...
Las Vegas Weekly· 2 days agoBob Dylan’s self-titled debut album came out 62 years ago. In that time, the music of the...
The Queen of the Beach Read Hangs Up Her Bikini
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoYork. She moved permanently to Nantucket in 1994. Two years later, she was off to the prestigious creative-writing graduate program at the University of...
Opinion: Something important Bob Dylan had to say
Hartford Courant· 4 days ago“When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.” Bob Dylan had a moment like that, probably his last, on March 27, 2020, four long years ago. It was late on a Friday night in March ...
