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Review: Smiley visits Wild West in ‘A Dangerous Business'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter a fall publishing season filled with Big Books by John Irving, Cormac McCarthy and Barbara...
Jane Smiley hits again with 'Lucky' but what the what is that ending?
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA copy of Jane Smiley's latest, "Lucky," sat in my lap — the last page read, the book closed. "Well, huh," I thought. "What the heck was that all about?" I knew what the heck the plot was about ...
Cormac McCarthy's brilliant 'Stella Maris,' new Jane Smiley: 5 must-read books this week
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this...
Alice Munro, Master of Short Story, Dies at 92
Time via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoAuthor Alice Munro at home in Clinton, Ontario, Canada, 1994. Credit - Peter Sibbald—Redux Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who...
Geraldine Brooks' 6 favorite books for those who love horses
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGeraldine Brooks. Courtesy Image Geraldine Brooks is the Pulitzer-winning author of March and four...
Hoof Beats: Books for horse lovers
The Pueblo Chieftain via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOne of my favorite horse books comes from Jane Smiley, one of my favorite authors. After receiving the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Thousand Acres,...
Raja Shehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoL.A. Times Book Prize finalists Raja Shehadeh, from left, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford. (Simone...
You've Got This! 50 Best Monday Motivation Quotes
Parade via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEnjoy the best Monday motivation quotes to get happy and ready for the workweek. iStock Monday mornings don't have to suck. The key is finding at least...
Jane Smiley's latest? A Gold Rush-era California sex worker mystery
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEliza was free. Dragged west to Gold Rush California from Michigan by her bully of a husband, liberated by a bullet that turned her into a widow, she considered her future in the windswept port ...
'A Thousand Acres' takes an acclaimed novel set in Iowa from an Iowa author to create a new opera
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs the show's director, Kristine McIntyre, observed, “It’s not every day a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
