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The Importance of Immigration in Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Immigration Stories, Middlesex, The Kite Runner, Immigration Novels, Immigration Literature, Immigration Books, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Books News
Dave Astor

The immigration themes in these and other novels are compelling for many reasons, and as readers get absorbed in all this drama, they also learn a lot about the places from which the characters emigrated.

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Jeffery Eugenides On Love And Books

Madeleine Crum | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Virgin Suicides, Video, The Marriage Plot, College Books, 1980s, Books We Love, Middlesex, New Books, Semiotics, Jeffrey Eugenides, Victorian Literature, Books News

If you walk through Times Square in New York right now, you'll be met with a rare site: a book-themed billboard. A stern-faced Jeffery Eugenides strid...

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Author Punched In The Face

Posted 09.24.2011

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On Sunday, The New York Post reported that Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Eugenides was attacked on a New Jersey train on his way home from Ma...

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Favorite Rereads: What Do You Come Back To Time And Time Again? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, 1984, Ernest Hemingway, Books We Love, George Orwell, Homer, Ray Bradbury, Gone With the Wind, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Middlesex, Harry Potter, Slidepollajax, To Kill a Mockingbird, Rereads, Jeffrey Eugenides, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

Author François Mauriac once said, "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what ...

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Jeffrey Eugenides NEW BOOK Almost Done

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, Books, Jeffrey Eugenides New Books, Jeffrey Eugenides, Books News

Jeffrey Eugenides will never win any prizes for speed: almost 10 years elapsed between the publication of his acclaimed debut, The Virgin Suicides, an...

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Assemblyman Samuel Thompson will seek chairmanship of Middlesex Republican Committee

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Star-Ledger fileAssemblyman Samuel Thompson (R-13th Dist.) in this October 2009 file photo.MIDDLESEX -- Assemblyman Samuel Thompson (R-Middlesex) ...

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10 Books About Non-Dysfunctional Families

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, we looked ahead to Thanksgiving with the family by showing you that yours is not the only crazy family out there. Sooner or later, we had t...

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Spotted Reading Publicly

Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reading Publicly, Trains, Books, Subways, Reading, Airports, Tucker Max, Poisonwood Bible, The Help, Blink, Stephanie Meyer, Steig Larsson, Randy Pausch, Jane Green, Wimpy Kid, Beer in Hell, Kingsolver, Kinney, Middlesex, Kathryn-Stockett, Waiting Room, Last Lecture, Gladwell, Twighlight, New York, Book Reviews, Books News
Amy Hertz

We all have different ways of discovering books, and spotting them being read in public is just one. At Huffington Post, we are very interested in what people are reading around the country.

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HBO To Develop "Middlesex" As One-Hour Series

Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hbo, Middlesex, HBO Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, Rita Wilson, Media News

HBO has optioned Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex and is developing a one-hour drama series based on the 2002 book. Actor-...

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