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Age, Writing and Workshops

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Tin House Books, Portland Oregon, American Literature, Media, Tin House, Career Change, Oregon, Writing Tips, The Balanced Life, Literary Culture, Fiction, Poetry, Living News
Marcia DeSanctis

Any idea that I was still a young woman was temporarily dispelled the first few days of the annual Tin House Writers Conference at Reed College in Portland Oregon.

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Tell The Truth: You're a Real Storyteller

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Limerick, Books, Laermer.com, American Literature, Pulitzer Prize, Angela's Ashes, Frank Mccourt, Autobiograhies, Ireland, Prospective Customer Acquisition, Customers, Reading, Truth Commission, Media News
Richard Laermer

The success of Angela's Ashes taught us that the most popular stories that seem to resonate with readers and spur new and positive changes are often the true ones.

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Define "Urban Lit" ...

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Literature, Urban Policy, Ghettos, Ghetto, American Literature, Black, Reading, African Americans, Urban, Style News
Charles D. Ellison

Rage against the Mullah machine fumes in Iran, economy is wrecked, and health care reform is a rubbery roast of ripped tire on the road to political h...

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Holden Caulfield at 60? No Way, Says J. D. Salinger

David Finkle | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Jennifer Schuessler, J. D. California, New York Time Sunday Week in Review, James M. Cain, 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, Mildred Pierce, Jane Austen, Entertainment, Literary Appropriation, Publishing Phenomenon, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, American Literature, Pride and Prejudice, Fredrik Colting, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Media News
David Finkle

Salinger might be better off taking the view of James M. Cain, the author of several hot 1940s chart items. Cain, asked once how he felt about what Hollywood had done to his books, said, "Hollywood hasn't done anything to my books. There they all are, up on the shelf."

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Over a Cheever, Under a Cheever

David Finkle | Posted 06.04.2009 | Living

Read More: "Oh What a Paradise It Seems, The New Yorker, Burt Lancaster, Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life, American Literature, The Swimmer, John Cheever, Falconer, Living News
David Finkle

I cried when I found out that John Cheever died in 1982. And now with few readers, the paradise that is Cheever's writing is at risk of being a lost paradise.

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John Updike Wins Bad Sex Prize

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 12.26.2008 | Media

Read More: The Wire, England, Books, Sex, Bad Sex, American Literature, John Updike, John Updike Bad Sex, Updike Bad Sex, Media News

LONDON — It's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex. Updike, who has a long and graphic h...

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Nobel Prize - Is There an American Eligible?

Rick Ayers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: American Literature, Nobel Prize, Literature, Horace Engdahl, European Literature, Swedish Academy, Europe, Media News
Rick Ayers

The comments of the Swedish Academy secretary suggesting that an American is unlikely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature this week have provoked great patriotic upswellings.

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Serena: This Fall's Most Dangerous Novel

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Wall Street Crash, Appalachia, Environmental Movement, Wall Street Crisis, Great American Novel, Novels, American Literature, Logging, Green Living, Thomas Wolfe, Ron Rash, Sarah Palin, North Carolina, Timber, Fiction, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, Media News
Jeff Biggers

As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.

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Nobel Literature Chief Bashes American Literature

AP | MALIN RISING and HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Nobel Prize, American Literature, Horace Engdahl, Nobel Prize Literature, Harold Pinter, Media News

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top member of the award jury believes the United State...

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