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The View From AWP Chicago: Writer-Con 2012

Stephanie Vanderslice | Posted 05.06.2012

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Stephanie Vanderslice

What do you call 10,000 writers on the shores of Lake Michigan? The start. The start of a three-day conversation that happens every spring when the Association of Writers and Writing Programs convenes its national conference.

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The Academy Awards: 8 Oscar-Winning Movies Set At College

The Huffington Post | Caitlin Brown | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: The Graduate, Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, Academy Awards, Movies Set at College, The Social Network, Oscar-Winning Movies, The Paper Chase, Oscar-Winners, Love Story, College, College News, Oscars, Wonder Boys, Jerry Maguire, College News

While movie set on college campuses were absent from the 2012 Academy Awards, Oscar-winners past have taken place at schools across the country. La...

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Divorce On Page And Screen: 13 NY Times Bestselling Split Stories-Turned-Films

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: The Accidental Tourist, Le Divorce, Eat Pray Love, Nights in Rodanthe, Waiting to Exhale, Message in a Bottle, Heartburn, The Other Boleyn Girl, Under the Tuscan Sun, Nicholas Sparks, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, New York Times Best Seller, Nora Ephron, Divorce Books, The Other Woman, Ordinary People, The First Wives Club, Wonder Boys, Bestsellers on Divorce Turned Into Film, Divorce News

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, "The Scarlet Letter," to Elizabeth Gilbert's more contemporary, "Eat, Pray, Love," marital turmoil, divorce,...

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5 Movies That Will Save You After Your Divorce

Laura Dave | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War of the Roses, Kramer vs. Kramer, Slidepollajax, Divorce, Laura Dave, Wonder Boys, The Philadelphia Story, Mrs. Doubtfire, Movies, Divorce News
Laura Dave

I spent a year researching marriage and divorce for my novel, The Divorce Party, talking to dozens of people about how they got from happily ever after to...happily somewhere else.

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Free Flick Fridays: Wonder Boys

Tribeca Film | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Holmes, Michael Chabon, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Curtis Hanson, Wonder Boys, Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas, Tomkat, Entertainment News
Tribeca Film

Adapted from the very funny Michael Chabon novel, Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys is a marvel of a film, a sharp and wise valentine to academia and the literary life.

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Scandalous Sex on Campus

Joanne Rendell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Academic News, Duquesne University, Campus, Professors, Sex, Fiction, John Grisham, Inside Higher Ed, College Students, Rape, Nyu, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Books, Affairs, Students, The Professors? Wives? Club, Michael Chabon, College, Wonder Boys, Higher Education, Reading, Style News
Joanne Rendell

Grisham is just the latest in a line of authors who've written university stories featuring sex scandals -- or, at the very least, stories of sexually inappropriate relations on campus.

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