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Poet John Burnside on drug addiction, his abusive father and winning the ‘British Nobel’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoJohn Burnside still cannot quite believe he is the winner of the 2023 David Cohen Prize for ...
Biblioracle: Remembering Alice Munro, a giant of contemporary literature
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoCanadian short story writer, and 2013 Nobel laureate in fiction Alice Munro died on May 13 at the...
Ken Burns' speech was great, but why so negative about Yiddish?
The Forward· 23 hours 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· 6 days agoBut this hardly mattered, said The New Yorker, because as the citation for her Nobel Prize in ...
Opinion: Dylan at 83
Idaho State Journal· 7 days agoBob Dylan, arguably America’s greatest songwriter and a Nobel Prize winner for literature, will turn 83 on May 24, 2024. Dylan has always ...
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...
Bob Dylan’s music tells a story of determination in ‘Girl from the North Country’ at the Smith...
Las Vegas Weekly· 1 day 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· 4 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· 3 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 ...
Spanish design duo reveal secrets behind award-winning Barcelona library
Euronews via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIf the couple's mission was to make reading relevant again then this is a total triumph. A long...
