Annie Proulx

Rushdie Cancels Festival Appearance Due To Threats

AP | By PRAKASH BHANDARI | Posted 01.23.2012

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JAIPUR, India (Associated Press) -- Booker-Prize winning author Salman Rushdie canceled plans to appear at an Indian literature festival Friday after ...

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Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival

Victoria Lautman | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Literature, Jaipur, Oprah Winfrey, Lionel Shriver, Oprah, William Dalrymple, Annie Proulx, Tom Stoppard, Michael Ondaatje, Maharaja, Salman Rushdie, Jaipur Literary Festival, Umberto Eco, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

To describe the Jaipur Literature Festival as the rambunctious love-spawn of the mercantile-minded Frankfurt Book Fair and free-spirited Woodstock barely scratches the surface of this spectacle.

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Writing the Decent Denver Novel

Jenny Shank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Elway, Denver-Colorado, Books, Novel Writing, Writing, Boulder, Colorado, Novel, Denver, Denver Broncos, Book Publishing, Baseball, Fiction, Book, Kent Haruf, Annie Proulx, Willa Cather, The Ringer, Best of Denver, Denver News
Jenny Shank

Writing the Great American Novel seemed out of the question. So instead I set out to write the Decent Denver Novel. Why Denver, you ask? Why not Denver, I say.

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Bidding Farewell to Accidental Books

Sophia Dembling | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sophia Dembling

Accidental books are books we might not have chosen given unlimited choice, but also don't mind reading when they fall in our path.

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Ogalalla Blue

Daniel Krotz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ozarks, Bookseller, That Old Ace in the Hole, Arkansas, Annie Proulx, Dan Krotz, William Ashworth, Berryville Arkansas, Daniel Krotz, Ogallala Aquifer, Ogallala Blue, Books News
Daniel Krotz

In 1978 the Corp of Engineers built a 48 million dollar reservoir in Oklahoma called Optima Dam. Due to declines in groundwater, it has never held so much as a teacup of water.

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9 Of Your Favorite Books: Huffington Post November Readers' Picks (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ever since we posted our first installment of the HuffPost Readers' Picks, we've gotten a flood of further reader recommendations. The feature has bee...

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Rob Fishman

New York Public Library Celebrates Library Lions

HuffingtonPost.com | Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last night, the New York Public Library held its annual Library Lions dinner, followed by the Young Lions benefit party. This year, in a break from t...

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No Time to Read? Go Short

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Kurt Vonnegut, Reading, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Dave Eggers, Leo Tolstoy, Book Groups, Book a Day, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Reading All Day, Books, Christmas Carol, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

There is a solution to the time crunch: the beauty and brevity of a short story. For those with circumscribed time, short stories deliver, and deliver big time.

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Bad Idea, Mr. Wuorinen

Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Annie Proulx, New York City Opera, Gerard Mortier, Close Range, Brokeback Mountain, Charles Wuorinen, Serialism, Entertainment News
Ivan Katz

Although it's not accurate to say that every facet of the adaptation of Brokeback Mountain is utterly wrong-headed, there is enough bad thought in this proposal to fill a reservoir.

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