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New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
This year's Montana Festival of the Book, which begins Thursday, has an incredible lineup scheduled. The October 23 reading with humorist David Sedaris is sold out, but there's so much else going on that nobody who missed out on tickets for that event should go home with an empty brain. On Thursday, October 22, four renowned crime novelists will participate in the panel discussion The Last Good Kiss:...
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+: 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 )
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iphone-2-0.blogspot.com (Free subscription) | 02/13/2009
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British novelist and essayist .He was married to his first wife Clarissa Luard from 1976 to 1987 and fathered a son, Zafar . His second wife was the American novelist Marianne Wiggins ,they were married in 1988 and divorced in 1993. His third wife from 1997 to 2004 was Elizabeth West ; they have a son Milan . He married the Indian American actress and model Padma Lakshmi...
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First 50 Words (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
I’m reading Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins. It’s the first thing I’ve read by her, the first time I’ve heard of her. She’s stunning. I find myself constantly pausing to reread and savor sentences and paragraphs. Like this one. The autumn rains came late that year; so did the autumn floods. The bottomlands along [...]
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Tales from the Reading Room (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
Blogging friends, it has been a busy Christmas as ever, but I’m hoping now to catch up on my last reviews and do my blogging housekeeping before the New Year. Two creative, unusual and original books to end the year with: A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen and The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins. Both [...]
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Counterbalance (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
The second panel I attended at the LA Times Festival of Books was Fiction: Novel Lives. The panel was moderated by Robert Roper and included Jill Bialosky, Nicholas Delbanco, Brian Hall and Marianne Wiggins. This was perhaps one of the...
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CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
This is the thirteenth in a series of blog posts by NBCC board members covering the finalists for the NBCC awards . The awards will be announced on March 6, 2008, at the New School. Marianne Wiggins , "The Shadow Catcher," Simon & Schuster. “It's a tricky business, this invention of identity,” comments Marianne Wiggins, the fictional character whose overlap with the flesh-and-blood...
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The Little Professor (Free subscription) | 12/29/2007
Favorite literary fiction: Briege Duffaud, A Wreath Upon the Dead; Richard Hughes, The Fox in the Attic; Akira Yoshimura, Shipwrecks; Jim Crace, Being Dead; Marianne Wiggins, Evidence of Things Unseen; Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries. Favorite mysteries: Ian Rankin, Exit...
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PalmAddicts (Free subscription) | 06/21/2007
The Shadow Catcher is new on ereader. "Following her National Book Award finalist, Evidence of Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins turns her extraordinary literary imagination to the American West, where the life of legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis...
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