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Dec 5, 2024 | 
perkins.org | O. Henry |Annie Proulx |Bret Anthony Johnston |Victor LaValle
Skip to content Short stories contain all the elements of a novel—and sometimes more!—within a limited word count. Whether experimental or deceptively simple in form, short stories allow authors to explore a variety of characters, subject matter, and literary devices. There is something for everyone, across all genres and preferences.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Michael Ondaatje |Cormac McCarthy |Annie Proulx |Hernan Diaz |Hernán Cortés Díaz
recommended by Susan Kollin by the interviewee A History of Western American Literature ed.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
orlandosentinel.com | Annie Proulx
Today is Thursday, Aug. 22, the 235th day of 2024. There are 131 days left in the year. Today in history:On Aug. 22, 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America's Cup. Also on this date:In 1791, the Haitian Revolution began as enslaved people of Saint-Domingue rose up against French colonizers. In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
vancouverisawesome.com | Annie Proulx
Celebrity birthdays for Aug. 22:Broadcast journalist Morton Dean is 89. Author Annie Proulx is 89. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 85. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 83. Correspondent Steve Kroft ("60 Minutes") is 79. Writer-producer David Chase is 79. Singer Ron Dante, lead vocalist for the cartoon group The Archies, is 79. Donna Godchaux, former vocalist with the Grateful Dead, is 77. Guitarist David Marks of The Beach Boys is 76.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Annie Proulx
Arwen Rasmont waits hours at Keflavík International for his flight; they call it as he leaves the men’s room. He walks past the mirrored wall and is assaulted, as usual, by his dead father’s handsome image: high-arched nose, yellow hair. A difference in the contact glance—the father’s a hard squinting challenge, the son’s sidelong and measuring.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
montereycountynow.com | Robert W. Bly |Annie Proulx |Marion Bradley |Terry Pratchett
If you’re searching for a good book, you really should judge it by its cover – a tattered jacket, deep creases in the spine and perhaps a loose page or 20 are telltale signs that it has been well-loved since it rolled off the printing press. Read once, and the book looks like it could still land on the “just released” shelves at the bookstore.
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May 5, 2024 | 
biblioracle.substack.com | Annie Proulx |Eskor Johnson |John Warner |David Epstein
The Pulitzer Prize awards, including the fiction prize, will be announced tomorrow. I have a long history of incorrectly predicting the winner, a track record I am eager to extend by incorrectly predicting this year’s prize. Before I do that, however, I’m going to predict next year’s fiction’s prize: James by Percival Everett.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Nina Munteanu |Richard Powers |Annie Proulx |Colleen Murphy
What resonated with me on so many levels was the author’s use of lyrical and beautiful language in describing trees and forests: as characters. I’m an ecologist and I felt a particular kinship with the botanist Patricia Westerford, a disabled introvert who must swim against the hegemonic tide with heretical ideas. When she argues that trees communicate, learn, trade goods and services, have intelligence and society, her scientific peers ridicule her and end her university career.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Steve Piacente |Fredrik Backman |Annie Proulx |Laura Hillenbrand
You could describe Fredrik Backman’s Beartown as the story of a broken Swedish forest town whose fate is tied to the success of a kids’ hockey team. This is accurate but woefully incomplete. In fact, I’m confident you’ll feel all the anger, empathy, and tenderness Backman has woven into a sports story that transcends pucks and goals. You will be ushered forward and backward in time. You’ll feel carried ahead even as the author freezes moments that deliver depth and perspective.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
thestarnewstoday.com | Annie Proulx
Tom Corfman is a senior consultant with Ragan Consulting Group, where he runs the Build Better Writers program. He loves the three essentials of any story: a compelling headline, an enticing teaser and a captivating lede. There are three ways to learn to write and the 2023 Gerald Loeb Awards for business journalism offers one of them ― reading.
