A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Voices of New Orleans (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Booklist singled out Steve De Jarnatt's "Ribiaux Rising" for special notice in their review of The Best American Short Stories 2009: "....a powerful and ironic piece set in the midst of Hurricane Katrina." I have no idea where it first appeared but it's nice to see it make it into the new volume (along with Annie Proulx, Richard Powers and Jill McCorkle among many others.)
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It's even harder to adapt to the digital gale sweeping through publishing when big 'old-media' stories about canonical authors are still grabbing everyone's attention William Goldman, who wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is almost as well known for his coruscating portrait of the movie business, Adventures in the Screen Trade . This, in turn, is celebrated for its dictum about Hollywood executives...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Awesome Author Challenge Hosted by At Home with Books The idea behind this challenge is to read works by authors who have been recommended to you time and again, yet somehow you haven't managed to read any books by those authors. These are the authors that everyone else tells you are awesome, thus the "Awesome Author Challenge" title. The Rules: The challenge starts January 1, 2010 and ends...
The Mark on the Wall (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Just noticed this: on Bookforum 's webpage, Jane Ciabattari 's article, "Writing the West." She profiles five authors, five novels: Oakley Hall ( Warlock , of course.), Dashiell Hammet (Pinkertons! Butte, Montana!), Jim Harrison, Richard Ford and Annie Proulx. excerpt: The sparsely populated mile-high plains, bowl-shaped valleys, and jagged mountain ranges of Wyoming, Montana, and other western...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The New York Public Library has acquired Annie Proulx’s correspondence, early book drafts, notebooks, and sketches.
Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The New York Public Library just acquired treasure trove of research notes, book drafts and other materials belonging to novelist E. Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News . The trove, housed in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, includes: * 200 pages of short stories, essays, poems and screenplays * 145 pages of preparatory notes and research * 10,200+...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"The library has acquired Proulx's research notes, short stories, screenplays, more than 1,060 pages of holograph diary and thousands of pages of correspondence, the institution said. The [Hilary] Knight acquisition includes sketches for about 60 books, personal contracts, publicity materials, Broadway posters and reviews."...
Happy Muslim Mama (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Yesterday saw my office raising funds for Breast Cancer Awareness month with a coffee morning and book sale. I decided to don pink hijab as I do every year and turned up to work to find everyone else had forgotten. A colleague bought me a pink cupcake and we had a look around the table full of books people had brought in. All of the books that looked interesting I had read (A Suitable Boy by Vikram...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Martin Schneider writes: Unfortunately, the Annie Proulx event on Saturday morning has been cancelled due to Ms. Proulx being "under the weather." We hope that it's just that and not something more serious. Get better soon! Ticketholders for the Proulx event will receive a refund. The Proulx event has been replaced, with some alacrity, by the following event: In Conversation With Jhumpa...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
David LaFontaine, professor in the English department at Massasoit Community College, offers up this important call to action in the Boston Globe recently . LaFontaine served as chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth from 1992 to 2000. Here are some highlights: MASSACHUSETTS HAS a history of national leadership in the area of gay rights, but when it comes to the state’s...
+: etcetera :+ (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Marianne Wiggins list of best American literature. Annie Proulx, Steinbeck and Salinger but no Roth. http://bit.ly/kRWp4 (via @mathitak )
NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
The Pass by Thomas Savage Riverbend Publishing, 335 pages, $12.95 I'd never heard of Thomas Savage until I came across Riverbend Publishing and the Drumlummon Institute's recent reprint of 1944's The Pass, and after falling into this beautiful, multi-layered, funny, heart-wrenching novel of the Montana prairie, I'm kicking myself for not reading his books sooner. Savage was the author of thirteen novels....
NewWest.Net Boise (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
The Pass by Thomas Savage Riverbend Publishing, 335 pages, $12.95 I'd never heard of Thomas Savage until I came across Riverbend Publishing and the Drumlummon Institute's recent reprint of 1944's The Pass, and after falling into this beautiful, multi-layered, funny, heart-wrenching novel of the Montana prairie, I'm kicking myself for not reading his books sooner. Savage was the author of thirteen novels....
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
The Pass by Thomas Savage Riverbend Publishing, 335 pages, $12.95 I'd never heard of Thomas Savage until I came across Riverbend Publishing and the Drumlummon Institute's recent reprint of 1944's The Pass, and after falling into this beautiful, multi-layered, funny, heart-wrenching novel of the Montana prairie, I'm kicking myself for not reading his books sooner. Savage was the author of thirteen novels....
NewWest.Net Boulder (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
The Pass by Thomas Savage Riverbend Publishing, 335 pages, $12.95 I'd never heard of Thomas Savage until I came across Riverbend Publishing and the Drumlummon Institute's recent reprint of 1944's The Pass, and after falling into this beautiful, multi-layered, funny, heart-wrenching novel of the Montana prairie, I'm kicking myself for not reading his books sooner. Savage was the author of thirteen novels....
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