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Interview With Vendela Vida About Always Apprentices

Nicki Richesin | Posted 06.19.2013 | Books
Read More: Eva Weber, Zadie Smith, Swedish Literature Appreciation Society, Away We Go, Dave Eggers, Tony Millionaire, Michael Ondaatje, Ed Park, Julie Hecht, The Paris Review, Colum McCann, Mary-Gaitskill, Joan Didion, Charles Burns, Ian McEwan, Heidi-Julavits, 826 Valencia, Maurice Sendak, Vendela Vida, Always Apprentices, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, The Believer, Books News
Nicki Richesin

It may come as something of a surprise that Vendela Vida doesn't have access to the internet at her home, but make no mistake, she's very connected.

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Rushdie Cancels Festival Appearance Due To Threats

AP | By PRAKASH BHANDARI | Posted 01.23.2012 | Books
Read More: India, Salman Rusdie, Oprah Winfrey, Annie Proulx, Tom Stoppard, Michael Ondaatje, Jaipur Literary Festival, Darul Uloom, The Satanic Verses, Books News

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 | Chicago
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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Ondaatje Magic One More Time: The Cat's Table

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 10.20.2011 | Books
Read More: The Wind in the Willows, Mentors, Elizabeth Benedict, Muses & Monsters, The English Patient, Fats Waller, Brick Magazine, The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje, Voyages on Ocean Liner, Booker Prize, Books News
Elizabeth Benedict

Since The English Patient, author Michael Ondaatje is an international star, and each new novel is greeted with appropriate fanfare. So too the haunting The Cat's Table.

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3 Memoirs That Won't Make You Slit Your Wrists

npr.org | By Sarah Manguso | Posted 08.03.2011 | Books
Read More: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence, Michael Ondaatje, Memoirs, Npr Book Recommendations, Running in the Family, Geoff Dyer, Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir, Books News

The memoir had a boom in the past couple of decades; now it's facing a backlash. Whatever happened to the "lost art of shutting up," Neil Genzlinger l...

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Author of Chinaman on Sri Lankan Literature and International Success

Ru Freeman | Posted 06.01.2011 | Books
Read More: Gratiaen Prize, Nyu, Michael Ondaatje, ICC World Cup, The Chinaman, Shehan Karunatilaka, Cricket, Books News
Ru Freeman

On April secnd, Sri Lanka takes on India in the final for the ICC World Cup. What better day on which to think about Shehan Karunatilaka's debut novel...

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Holiday Giving: Intimate Evenings with Acclaimed Authors and Rare Collector's Books

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Charity Christmas Gifts, Charity Organizations, Holiday Giving, India, Holiday Shopping, Developing World, Holiday Season, Rare Books, Charity, Developing Countries, Tax-Receipts, Donating to Charity, Collector's Edition, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Holiday Gifts, Literacy, Education, Illiteracy, Cbc, Park-Hyatt, Giving Back, Peter Mansbridge, Christmas Gifts, Adult Illiteracy, World Literacy of Canada, Rohinton-Mistry, Christmas Shopping, Giving, Economic Growth for Developing Countries, Kama Reading Series, Books, Books News
Marissa Bronfman

Giving is a given during December but why not give a little something extra special this holiday season that will delight the book lovers in your life and promote literacy abroad?

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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 | Books
Read More: Anne Rice, John Wray, Writers, Junot Diaz, Books, Writing, Writing Strategies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Writing Techniques, Nicholson Baker, Edwidge Danticat, Colum McCann, Laura Lippman, Authors, Kate Christensen, Richard Powers, Writer's Block, Orhan Pamuk, Writing Tips, Dan Chaon, Russell Banks, Hilary Mantel, Writing Secrets, Amitav Gosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

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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Michael Ondaatje: Speaking About Film and Literature at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Literature Versus Film, Jury, Balkan Films, Despina Mouzaki, Michael Ondaatje, New Movies, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival is considered the most important film festival in southeast Europe. It has helped the careers of dozens, including Darren Aronofsky and Fatih Akin.

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