Russell Banks

How Miami Pedophiles Inspired A Literature Award

Posted 02.23.2012

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Russell Banks, a writer, poet and part-time Miami resident, is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award for his recent novel Lost Memory of Skin. The...

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The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2011

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.11.2011

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Anis Shivani

As usual, fall is when the big guns come out. Exciting novels by major writers like Ha Jin, Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco, Jeffrey Eugenides and Russell Banks.

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Seattle Can Do It, So Can Chicago: Why Can't Boston Pick A Book To Read?

Boston Globe | Sam Allis | Posted 12.08.2011

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Chicago has one. So do Malibu and San Diego, Denver and Poughkeepsie, Seattle and Philadelphia. Somerville does too. What they share, along with hu...

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Calabash Celebrates Ten Years of Words by the Sea

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Akashic Books, Robert Pinsky, Sole Woyinka, Edward Baugh, Nami Mun, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Billy Collins, Cherry Natural, Sharon Olds, Colin Channer, Staceyann Chin, Bernardine Evaristo, Kwame Dawes, Jamaica, Derek Walcott, Roger Bonair-Agard, Russell Banks, Joan Andrea Hutchinson, Calabash International Literary Festival, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

Memorial Day is coming and one of the most exciting places to be for the Memorial Day weekend is at the Calabash International Literary Festival, now in its tenth year.

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Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Secrets

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

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