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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+...
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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."...
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Surviving Oz (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
By now any Facebook users (which is pretty much everyone on the planet except Bill Gates , right') have probably seen this. The challenge is to list fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you; the first fifteen you can recall within fifteen minutes. This is my list - they're not necessarily the most profound books (check out #10!), but all of them made an indelible impression on me in...
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