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Civil-War, classic fiction, Classic horror fiction, historical romance, mystery, non-fiction, Pulitzer-Prize, Reading lists
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I also read and reviewed Time and Again by Jack Finney. Dracula by Bram Stoker I wanted to try a classic “scary” read for Halloween (though I started Dracula too late and didn’t finish it until well into November). I… more
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awards, Pulitzer-Prize
FICTION: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books) DRAMA: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts HISTORY: What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) BIOGRAPHY: Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)… more
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Author-deaths, Pulitzer-Prize
Source: © William Coupon/CORBIS. Norman Mailer, a two time Pulitizer Prize winner, died from renal failure at the age of 84 on Saturday. Mailer’s award winning books were The Armies of the Night which his his account of the peace… more
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Pulitzer-Prize
Charles Simic can add one more accolade to his already embarrassingly full resume. The 69 year old Yugoslavian who the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990 also recently won the Academy of American Poets’ 14th annual $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award… more
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Pulitzer-Prize
Robert Olen Butler, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, is a believer that what goes on in the marriage bed should be shared with others and thus when his wife of twelve years, Elizabeth Dewberry, left him for Ted Turner, he… more
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Pulitzer-Prize, Scandal
It seems pretty innocuous but to those in the business, doing a little photoshop editing of a journalism photo is pretty egregious. Allan Detrich, formerly of the Toledo Blade, was found to have photoshopped prints submitted for publication. Most of… more