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‘Walker Percy’ Review: Writing for Redemption
The Wall Street Journal· 11 hours agoThe victories in Percy’s novels are never decisive, since he was much too nuanced a writer for tidy resolutions. A recurring theme in both his fiction...
Young writers to be celebrated Friday in Charleston
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoMay 2—If you can read, you can learn. Teachers, in general, love saying that. English teachers, however, love attaching another sentence to the adage. Reading, they'll say, is even better when ...
Valley writers shine in initial round of Mass Book Award competition: 12 area authors and...
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 4 hours ago“The Mass Book Awards are recognized as one of the strongest state award programs in the nation,”...
Paul Auster’s Best Books: A Guide
New York Times· 2 days agoPaul Auster, who died on April 30 at the age of 77, was an atmospheric author whose scalpel-sharp prose examined the fluidity of identity and the...
2024 Emmys Supporting Actress Comedy Predictions
Variety via Yahoo News· 1 day agoVariety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions...
The 'Most Meta of American Meta-Fictional Writers' Has Died
newser· 2 days agoAfter graduating from Columbia University, Auster struggled for years before he was able to find a...
Summer Reading List: Defining Moments
UC Berkeley NewsCenter· 6 hours agoWith “Defining Moments” as its theme, this year’s list features engaging works of fiction and nonfiction — a wide range of books (plus one film) — recommended for you, as ...
‘Damn the Valley’: How one paratrooper recorded his deployment to Afghanistan
Task & Purpose· 4 hours agoWilliam Yeske was on a hilltop in Afghanistan when some of his platoon mates started joking about a...
Ballard from beyond: six of the famed author's redefinitions
Boing Boing· 4 days agoJ.G. Ballard, whose relevance never waned during his writing career, is perhaps more relevant since...
The Societal Causes of Eating Disorders
Columbia University News· 13 hours agoWhen I was in the writing MFA program at Columbia, I started working on what I thought was going to be a book about female hysteria. You write that, by...
