Tag: american literature
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November 15, 2009 11:44 AM EST --
I was led to Lorrie Moore's new novel, A Gate at the Stars, by the NY Times Book Review, and I plan to go back to see just what the reviewer found to like. This is a padded, overly cute novel that . . .
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June 13, 2008 09:56 AM EDT --
Last night Northern Lights Books and Gifts of Duluth, MN threw a launch party for Anthony Bukoski's North of the Port, his fifth collection of short stories. With these books, lovingly depicting . . .
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June 18, 2009 05:16 PM EDT --
leading Southern authors in the 20th century
A BACKWARD GLANCE - The Southern Renascence, the Autobiographical Epic, and the Classical Legacy by Joseph R. Millichap. U. of Tennessee Press, . . .
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July 03, 2006 10:02 AM EDT --
Louis L'Amour: A Timeless bard
Somewhere around 10 . . .
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February 12, 2009 10:52 AM EST --
humor and pathos for Native American poet on the margins
NATIONAL MONUMENTS - poems by Heide Erdrich. Michigan State U. Press, East Lansing, MI; www.msupress.msu.edu; reaumej@msu.edu. 2008. 96+ix . . .
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May 01, 2008 11:33 AM EDT --
In 1896, in the close-to-history fiction of novelist Louise Erdrich, a plague of doves hits North Dakota. Doves are everywhere by the thousands.
But the blanket of birds can't cover up what's . . .
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September 10, 2006 09:06 AM EDT --
CANNIBAL FICTIONS - American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality by Jeff Berglund. U. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI; www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress; publicity@uwpres.wisc.edu. 2006. . . .
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April 14, 2007 06:48 PM EDT --
I know I already did one today-- but I do love me some Mark Twain.
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”
-Mark Twain
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September 17, 2006 09:03 AM EDT --
This is an extract of the novel, siete minutos by Ismael Camacho Arango (my father)
http://www.lulu.com/mariamcamacho
Why am I writing this? I know how it started but I can't say how it finished. . . .
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October 29, 2008 03:13 PM EDT --
Throughout the annals of American literature, no author has stirred the murky recesses of our imagination as Edgar Allan Poe.
Fueled by . . .
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May 26, 2006 04:24 PM EDT --
Carole Waterhouse
Without Wings
AmericaHouse Book Publishers, Baltimore MD
1591290317 2001 301pp 24.95
http://tinyurl.com/aa1o
available at: . . .
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October 17, 2007 05:44 AM EDT --
Welcome to Wednesday Writing Essentials . Today, October 17th, is an OPEN day.
This means that poetry, fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction, essays about writing or publishing, or . . .
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December 10, 2009 04:48 AM EST --
http://www.amazon.com/Hostage-Lies-Urban-Soul-Presents/dp/1599830957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257739915&sr=1-1
12-4-09
Would you like to update . . .
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March 05, 2007 03:44 AM EST --
At the heart of Sula is a bond between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel are both black, both smart, and both poor. Through their girlhood years, . . .
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May 26, 2006 04:31 PM EDT --
Carole Waterhouse
Paradise Ranch
PublishAmerica, Baltimore MD
1-59286-499-6 2002 146pp 19.95
http://tinyurl.com/aa1o . . .
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July 06, 2006 04:29 PM EDT --
Bluma Lennon, a Cambridge academic, is struck and killed while crossing the road in Soho. Her death, occurring while reading a poem by Emily Dickinson, is taken by her colleagues to show the dangers inherent . . .
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November 07, 2009 03:38 AM EST --
5.0 out of 5 stars A ROAD WORTH TRAVELING: A REVIEW OF NIAMA WILLIAMS’ THE JOURNEY May 18, 2009
By Doni Tamblyn author of LAUGH AND LEARN
If a poet were to write an autobiography, what . . .
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May 26, 2006 05:01 PM EDT --
Michelle Miller Allen
Journey from the Keep of Bones
Amador Publishers, Albuquerque NM
0-938513-36-2 2003 376pp
http://www.amadorbooks.com/books/journey.htm
Michelle Miller . . .
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June 09, 2006 12:36 AM EDT --
Thornton Burgess (1874-1965) wrote more than 15,000 bedtime stories and contributed more than 170 books to children's literature and summertime reading, centered around the unforgettable animals of . . .
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June 09, 2006 12:56 AM EDT --
In 1905, Harrison Cady began as a cartoonist with the Philadelphia Press, but was already recognized as an illustrator with works published in the Ladies Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post. . . .
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