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Novelist
New York Times:
So much of what is known of China’s beating Communist heart is guesswork. But not for the spy novelist.
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New York Times:
The movie "Precious'' looms as the cinematic event of the season, a film based on the 1996 novel "Push," by the poet and novelist Sapphire.
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New York Times:
Metropolitan Books has acquired the North American rights to publish two novels by Herta Muller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize last month.
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Literature Network Forums:
To think that Dostoevsky wrote Poor Folk when he was twenty-five--it's just incredible. No wonder that he was proclaimed and hailed as a great novelist from the start. Poor Folk is a great work, but it is not his best. (Read More)
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Since around 2002, I don’t think that the computer a writer uses has mattered much, chiefly because virtually all computers on the market since that time will do everything you need: conjure up a window and allow you to type (Read More)
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Literature Network Forums:
I bought a book the other day by Anatole France who at one time was considered to be France's most populat novelist. He has, perhaps, an old-fashaioned elegant style, and I never read much about him anymore. He won the Nobel (Read More)
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New York Times:
Mr. Ayala was an eminent Spanish novelist whose work explored societies in which there is much despotism and little benevolence.
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New York Times:
Mr. Ayala was an eminent Spanish novelist whose work explored societies in which there is much despotism and little benevolence.
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New York Times:
Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile.
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New York Times:
The French writer Marie NDiaye won France’s Prix Goncourt Monday for “Three Strong Women,” her tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.
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The Writing Life:
One of the common failures among writers is their lack of determination to get published. Many would-be authors are rejected a few times and give up on their manuscript instead of continuing to look for the right place.Tap in (Read More)
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The Writing Life II:
Will have students read their midterms in class today, maybe 8 or 10 of them, all good work. Only a few are still not "getting it" and trying to write prose fiction instead of screenwriting. Time for the light to go off for t (Read More)
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New York Times:
Earlier this year, the novelist Jane Smiley was a judge for the Man Booker International Prize. (Read More)
New York Times:
Ms. Mazer was an award-winning novelist for young people whose work helped illuminate many dark corners of adolescence.
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Some interesting books were recently brought to my attention by Carel. In one of them, Barry Sanders’ “Unsuspecting Souls,” the author unfolds a theory that somewhere around the beginning of the 19th Century we began to lose (Read More)
New York Times:
Mr. Federman was a French-born writer who took an unorthodox approach to his art, creating books that aimed for the eye and the ear.
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New York Times:
An event to honor the novelist Amy Tan captured San Francisco literary life in a nutshell, especially its sense of community and school spirit.
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New York Times:
In recent months both the novelist Michael Chabon and his wife, Ayelet Waldman, have published nonfiction books that deal with what it means to be a family.
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New York Times:
“I always want to like books with subtitles like ‘The Amazing Journey of American Women From X to Y,’ ” the novelist Amy Bloom says. “That’s not always easy.”. (Read More)
New York Times:
Mr. Kaminsky was a novelist who was widely known for his prodigious output, complex characters and rich evocations of time and place, including Hollywood in its Golden Age.
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