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Visiting Vonnegut’s Indianapolis
There is an old joke about a confession. “Father, I must confess that I’ve sinned,” a man tells the priest, “I’m guilty of stealing.” The priest asks, “What did you steal?” “Well, a ham,” says the man. “What did you do with it?” Confusedly, the man responds, “I hid it under the bridge outside town.”…
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Brave Women in Mysterious Circumstances: A Reading List
When I was 12 or 13, I read a book called The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon. There wasn’t a ton of YA in those days (this was before cell phones and streaming music, back when we had to look up information in encyclopedias and dinosaurs roamed the earth) so whenever a…
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K-Ming Chang On Pushing Every Sentence To Its Furthest Point
This week on The Maris Review, K-Ming Chang joins Maris Kreizman to discuss Organ Meats, out now from One World. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts. * from the episode: Maris Kreizman: Your previous books are described as magical realism, but Organ Meats feels entirely surreal. I’m wondering if you could…
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Dr. Jessica Kirzane on Translating Yiddish Literature
For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began. We know it today as literature, a term broad enough to encompass everything from ancient…
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Unexpected Jolts of Children’s Literature
Figured I’d get one more of these in here before the end of the year. Just to remind you, this series is primarily focused on adult titles that have some connection to the world of children’s literature in some way. It could be the focus of the book. It could be the author. It’s wide…
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Diverse talents shine at literary competition
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts wrapped up the Indradevi Literary Competition 2023 with an award ceremony, honouring outstanding achievements in Khmer literature. With a remarkable 114 entries comprising 86 short novels and 28 poems, the competition highlighted the diverse and vibrant talents of the Kingdom’s writers. In the 2023 Short Novel Category, The…
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Kai Thomas, Christina Sharpe among Writers’ Trust literary prize winners
The 2023 Writers’ Trust Award winners, from left to right: Kai Thomas, Anuja Varghese, Laisha Rosnau, Canisia Lubrin (representing Christina Sharpe), Kyo Maclear, Helen Humphreys and Anosh Irani. (Tom Sandler/Writers’ Trust of Canada) Ottawa writer Kai Thomas and Toronto academic Christina Sharpe were among the honourees at the 2023 Writers’ Trust of Canada Awards, an…
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John N. Maclean’s ‘Home Waters’ Finds New Home at UNH Milne Collection
WRITING ON THE FLYBy George Liset When it comes to fly fishing, there are a myriad of rabbit holes to go down. Whether it is tying flies, making or collecting fly rods and other paraphernalia or just visiting and fishing exotic waters; the possibilities are endless. I have a touch of the above, but…
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Discover Eight Gift-Worthy Local Books for the Holiday Season
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Fresno City College Professor Hosts Book Launch
Fresno City College English Professor Dr. Apryl Lewis had a book launch on Oct. 17, 2023, in the Old Administration Building for her book “Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature.” Lewis received her Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University in 2021. When Lewis started writing her dissertation in 2019, a…