A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History
Jenny Erpenbeck became a writer when her childhood and her country, the German Democratic Republic, disappeared, swallowed by ...
Eli Russell Linnetz Launches a “Made in California” Collection of Souped-up American Classics
Linnetz is taking some of his production fully in-house, launching a “Made in California” collection that is, obviously, made in California, in and around Linnetz’s studio. The sheep in his yard are ...
/Film on MSN4d
There's A Gilligan's Island Novel That Puts A Dark Spin On The Characters We Love
"Gilligan's Wake," taking its title from "Finnegans Wake," was an "exposé" of the characters on "Gilligan's Island," ...
The Boston Globe on MSN22h
‘Like playing in someone’s backyard’: Lowell’s annual The Town and the City Festival has a special feel.
“We really enjoyed it ... Jack Kerouac’s debut novel — promises to be a discovery channel, too. Intrepid attendees willing to ...
Cambridge Day4d
Victor Lodato explores what it means to come home in ‘Honey’
In his third novel, Victor Lodato uses 82-year-old Honey, the daughter of a mobster, to reckon with the role biological and ...
Capital & Main20h
An Author Reflects on the Effort to Rebuild L.A. After the ‘Violent Spring’ of 1992
The six days after the King verdict were marked by rioting across Los Angeles County: Some people set fires, while others ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin on MSN12h
‘Perris, California’ is title and setting of Rachel Stark’s debut novel
No, not that Paris,” Stark frequently has to tell outsiders. She spoke about her hometown and her writing to a Riverside ...
Haverford College is getting $25 million from ‘the godfather of Asian private equity’ for an institute on ethics
Michael B. Kim majored in English and earned his bachelor's from Haverford in 1985. He has a current net wealth of $9.7 ...
Muskogee Phoenix6d
Literary seminar touts 'Indian with a pen'
Guests attending a seminar on Indigenous literacy may have called to mind a line from the novel “Faces in the Moon,” by Betty ...
The Courier-Mail3d
I grew up poor, my husband grew up privileged; it creates problems with our kids
His older brother always jokes that he was brought up on chops, while my husband grew up eating ... me a cubby house, and mum and I painted a plaque for the front door—we called it Rainbow ...
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Writer Caoilinn Hughes on 'The Alternatives'
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks to Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes, whose new novel explores the bonds of sisterhood and the ways those bonds can be tested.
Publishers Weekly15h
Children's Publishers Embrace the Taylor Swift Factor
With demand for all things Taylor Swift still going strong, we took a look at a swath of Swift-inspired children's book ...