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7 Stories for Every Kind of Cat Person
Most of my really potent reading memories have less to do with exact books or passages, and more to do with the city I was living in, the people I was surrounded by, and the things happening on the fringes of my life as I read. It’s for this reason, in part, that I tend…
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Kenosha residents, advocates react to removal of books from schools
Kenosha Unified School District removed four books from school libraries this year, joining a nationwide debate about removing books from schools. The books, which focused on LGBTQ topics and characters, were purged for having “pornographic material,” one school board member explained on social media. While their removal satisfied some residents, others worry about the effects…
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‘Her Good Side’: Local author’s teen rom-com novel on New York Times ‘Best of Year’ list
EXETER — Local author Rebekah Weatherspoon has made her debut in the teen romance genre with “Her Good Side”, a novel the New York Times named one of the “Best Romance Books of the Year.” Weatherspoon hopes her new novel will give young readers a “fun,” “hopeful,” “joyful,” and “humorous” experience. The 296-page book tells…
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For author Haruki Murakami, reading fiction helps us ‘see through lies’ in a world divided by walls
OVIEDO, Spain — For Japanese author Haruki Murakami, the bloody conflict in the Gaza Strip is a horrendous example of how our world is divided by walls, both physical and metaphorical. But while admitting he can only pray for peace now, he also feels confident that fiction, rather than offering an escape, can help us…
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What More Will Save Yoruba Literature?
With the success of movies like Femi Adebayo’s 2023 Netflix epic, Jagun Jagun, it is clear that we’re witnessing a Yoruba language renaissance in film, especially through works that are created to acknowledge the intellect of their audiences. Seeing this, the question arises: Can Yoruba literature enjoy the same fate? I had my first taste of…
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Is Gerald Murnane our most talented writer?
By Owen Richardson October 20, 2023 — 2.33pm Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size LITERATUREMurnane Emmett StinsonMiegunyah Press, $18.99 It was 30 years ago that Imre Saluszinsky published the first, ground-breaking study of Gerald Murnane, one of the strangest and boldest writers in Australian or world literature. A lot has happened since then.…
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Visiting Writers Series to feature multi-genre author
Oct. 20, 2023 Northwest Missouri State University’s Visiting Writers Series will conclude its fall lineup with Kazim Ali, whose work spans the genres of poetry, nonfiction, fiction novels and essays. The event begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, in the J.W. Jones Student Union Living Room. It is free and open to the public.…
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National Book Award winner is coming to Portland
Come welcome National Book Award winner, Jacqueline Woodson, to the Rose City on Oct. 26, making it her only book tour stop in the Pacific Northwest. (Third Eye Books ) National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson is set to make her ONLY stop in the Pacific Northwest for an exclusive evening of discussion and book…
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Eve Bunting, 94, Dies; Tackled Adult Themes in Children’s Books
Many of the more than 250 books she published explored contemporary social issues; others retold fables from her native Northern Ireland. Eve Bunting, who published her first children’s book when she was 43 and wrote some 250 more over the next 50 years — retelling whimsical fables from her native Northern Ireland and gently introducing…
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Tension Over the Israel-Hamas War Casts a Pall Over Frankfurt Book Fair
Heated debate over the conflict overshadowed the 75th gathering of one of the world’s largest literary events. The Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the largest literary events in the world, began this week under a cloud of anger and recrimination after the cancellation of an event honoring a Palestinian author — a decision that set…
