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National Short Story Month: Favorite Short Stories Of The Past Year

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.20.2011

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May is National Short Story Month, so we’re celebrating the tail end of it by honoring some short stories of the past year that are deserving of you...

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In Defense of Good Writing: Where Are the Strong Female Writers?

Koa Beck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sigrid Nunez, Emily Gould, Commercial Fiction, The New Yorker, Jodi Picoult, Pop Fiction, Lorrie Moore, Women Writers, Lydia Davis, Jennifer Weiner, Jonathan Franzen, Women's Writing, Literary Fiction, Sexism, Literary Criticsm, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sloane Crosley, Jonathan Franzen Freedom, The New York Times Book Review, Books News
Koa Beck

With the exception of a few female literary giants, it seems that even when a big publication does take note of a compelling female voice, she isn't nearly as strong a writer as her male colleagues.

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Lit Versus Commercial Fiction: Writer Wars?

Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times Book Review, African-American Fiction, Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Weiner, Franzenfreude, Jonathan Franzen, Book Reviews, Commercial Fiction vs. Literary Fiction, Reading, Women's Fiction, Chris Abouzied, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Books News
Randy Susan Meyers

It saddens me seeing writers buy into a class war. In today's market, lit looks down on commercial, which look down on genre, which eschew whatever is lower on the literary food chain.

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Best Tributes to To Kill a Mockingbird on Its 50th Anniversary

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Big Think, Rape, Allen Barra, Harper Lee, The Guardian, Lea Carpenter, Alabama, Tom Brokaw, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Daily Beast, Wall Street Journal, Racial Inequality, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, Classic, Books News
Danny Groner

"In all great novels there is some quality of moral ambiguity, some potentially controversial element that keeps the book from being easily grasped or...

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Great Women Writers Of 2009: Give Thanks

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nina Sankovitch

Thanksgiving is here and I want to give thanks to five women writers who in 2009 excited, enlivened, and energized me through their great books.

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The 10 Best Books of 2009

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniyal Mueenuddin, East Bay Grease, Philip K. Dick, The Fire Gospel, Paul Starobin, Christopher Miller, Syrian Immigrants, Chloe Aridjis, Michael Faber, Home Boy, In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Dave Eggers, The Naked Eye, Azhar Abidi, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, Brownsville: Stories, Torsten Krol, A Good Fall: Stories, Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank, Steve Hely, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, Melissa Kwasny, Zeitoun, Book of Clouds, Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence, Yoko Tawada, Kamila Shamsie, Oscar Casares, The Thing Around Your Neck, Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, H. M. Naqvi, Chris Hedges, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, Carolyn Chute, A Free Life, Barbara Ehrenreich, Walter Kirn, Eric Miles Williamson, After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age, Ali Sethi, Franz Wright, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Amigoland, Callisto, Books News
Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani picks his top 10 books for 2009.

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