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Essay-Review: A French Reproach to Our Big, Baggy American Memoirs — In her slim books, the French writer Colombe Schneck considers her own life honestly and unsparingly. By Katie Roiphe

Essay-Review: A French Reproach to Our Big, Baggy American Memoirs — In her slim books, the French writer Colombe Schneck considers her own life honestly and unsparingly. By Katie Roiphe | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.is - May 25, 2:53 AM
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PBS Documentary (Video): Walter Tevis: A Writer’s Gambit

PBS Documentary (Video): Walter Tevis: A Writer’s Gambit | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.pbs.org - May 24, 4:32 AM

The documentary explores the complex life and brilliant career of Walter Tevis.

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Free Short Story: Deborah Eisenberg's Some Other, Better Otto

Free Short Story: Deborah Eisenberg's Some Other, Better Otto | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From yalereview.org - May 24, 5:01 AM
A story by Deborah Eisenberg: “I don't know why I committed us to any of those things...”
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Free Short Story: Vladimir Nabokov's Gods

Free Short Story: Vladimir Nabokov's Gods | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From yalereview.org - May 24, 4:57 AM
A short story by Vladimir Nabokov: “Here is what I see in your eyes right now: rainy night, narrow street, streetlamps gliding away into the distance.”
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Conversation (Video): Faith, Fiction, and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer

From youtu.be - May 23, 7:45 AM
Published in 1961, Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer announced a major new voice in American fiction. In this lush, New Orleans–based novel, the forty-four-year-old doctor-turned-writer set out to explore what he called “the strange spiritual malady of the modern age.” What he gave us, says writer Paul Elie, editor of a new LOA edition of Percy’s novels, is “the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction, the earliest novel to render a set of circumstances and an outlook that still feel recognizably ours.” Join Elie, senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and New York Times best-selling novelist Ayana Mathis (The Twelve Tribes of Hattie) for a conversation about faith, fiction, and the novel that established Percy as a peerless examiner of American alienation and redemption. We thank our promotional partners: the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics & Writers and SoLit. -- Donate to support LOA LIVE programs: loa.org/loalive.
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Translated Fiction: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann

Translated Fiction: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - May 22, 2:09 AM
Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Kairos folds intimations of German history and cultural memory into a torrid romance.
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Appreciation: On The London Review of Books

Appreciation: On The London Review of Books | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - May 20, 1:53 PM
The Observer’s theatre critic Susannah Clapp remembers the literary journal’s colourful early days
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Appreciation: Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives

Appreciation: Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - May 15, 5:19 AM
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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Twenty of the Most Thought-Provoking, Philosophical Science Fiction Books of All Time

Twenty of the Most Thought-Provoking, Philosophical Science Fiction Books of All Time | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From bookriot.com - May 17, 6:51 AM
Looking for a work of science fiction that will make you really think? Welcome to these philosophical sci-fi books!
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Appreciation: Alice Munro Reinvigorated the Short Story

Appreciation: Alice Munro Reinvigorated the Short Story | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.is - May 17, 6:39 AM
 
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Essay: How T. S. Eliot Became T. S. Eliot. By Louis Menand

Essay: How T. S. Eliot Became T. S. Eliot. By Louis Menand | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.is - May 17, 5:56 AM
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Essay: The Fiction of Rational Miracles — On NYRB Classics Reissue of Amit Chaudhuri’s First Three Novels

Essay: The Fiction of Rational Miracles — On NYRB Classics Reissue of Amit Chaudhuri’s First Three Novels | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From lareviewofbooks.org - May 16, 4:59 AM
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The Best Novels in Translation: The 2024 International Booker Prize Shortlist

The Best Novels in Translation: The 2024 International Booker Prize Shortlist | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From fivebooks.com - May 24, 5:04 AM
The best novels newly translated into English, recommended by Eleanor Wachtel, chair of the 2024 International Booker Prize judges.
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Free Short Story: André Gide's The Return of the Prodigal Son

Free Short Story: André Gide's The Return of the Prodigal Son | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From yalereview.org - May 24, 4:58 AM
A short story by André Gide: “I have painted here, for my own delectation…”
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Free Short Story: Haruki Murakami's The Mirror

Free Short Story: Haruki Murakami's The Mirror | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From yalereview.org - May 24, 4:58 AM
A short story by Haruki Murakami: "All the stories you’ve been telling tonight seem to fall into two categories."
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Free Short Story: Gish Jen's The White Umbrella

Free Short Story: Gish Jen's The White Umbrella | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From yalereview.org - May 24, 4:56 AM

A short story by Gish Jen: “When I was twelve, my mother went to work without telling me or my little sister."

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Profile: Jenny Erpenpeck — A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History

Profile: Jenny Erpenpeck — A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - May 22, 2:10 AM
Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by the materialist West.
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Awards: Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ Wins the International Booker Prize

Awards: Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ Wins the International Booker Prize | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - May 22, 2:05 AM
Translated by Michael Hofmann, it’s the first novel originally written in German to win the major literary award.
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Fiction: On Miranda July’s new novel, All Fours

Fiction: On Miranda July’s new novel, All Fours | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From lareviewofbooks.org - May 20, 4:04 AM
  
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Essay: How Anecdotes Sell Drugs — On the 30th Anniversary Edition of Peter Kramer’s Listening to Prozac. By Andrew Scull

Essay: How Anecdotes Sell Drugs — On the 30th Anniversary Edition of Peter Kramer’s Listening to Prozac. By Andrew Scull | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From lareviewofbooks.org - May 16, 8:48 AM
Andrew Scull critiques the cultural influence of Peter Kramer’s 1993 book “Listening t
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Essay-Review: Fanon the Universalist — Was Frantz Fanon a patron saint of political violence or a visionary of a radical universalism that rejected racial essentialism and colonialism?

Essay-Review: Fanon the Universalist — Was Frantz Fanon a patron saint of political violence or a visionary of a radical universalism that rejected racial essentialism and colonialism? | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From archive.is - May 16, 9:14 AM
Books considered in the essay: The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz and Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience by Ato Sekyi-Otu
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Eight of the Most Thought-Provoking Fantasy Books Ever Written

Eight of the Most Thought-Provoking Fantasy Books Ever Written | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From bookriot.com - May 17, 6:50 AM
These philosophical and thought-provoking fantasy novels will leave you thinking about identity, ethics, freedom, reality, and more.
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Short Story: The Things by Peter Watts

Short Story: The Things by Peter Watts | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From clarkesworldmagazine.com - May 17, 5:58 AM
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: The Things by Peter Watts
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Short Video: Alan Moore on his philosophy on writing

From youtube.com - May 16, 11:28 AM
Hear from legendary storyteller Alan Moore about his unique approach to writing and his take on what every writer should consider at the start of their journey. Timestamps: 00:10 – Develop your moral platform 4:11 – Writing and magic Useful links: See Alan Moore’s BBC Maestro course on Storytelling here - https://bbcm.co/3U9iErs Find out more: From fiction writing and poetry to screenwriting and songwriting, see our collection of writing courses - https://bbcm.co/3U9EtY3
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