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PHILADELPHIA CREAM–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fresh off the press, the collection of popular Polish author Romuald Roman Aldek‘Bestiary features twenty-one short stories about life in socialist Poland and how an immigrant family embraces the American dream with all its imperfections. Romuald Roman grew up under an incomprehensible Polish bureaucracy, but lived four decadesRead More →

Brutal reality stopped internationally acclaimed Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov from writing fiction, so he instead tells the story of the Russian invasion to the world. The 61-year-old, famous for his Russian-language satirical novel “Death and the Penguin,” has become something of a traveling cultural spokesperson for Ukraine’s war effort. HerRead More →

Andrey Kurkov, famous for his satirical novel ‘Death and the Penguin’, has become something of a traveling cultural spokesperson for Ukraine’s war effort Sergei SUPINSKY Text size Video by Jan Hennop Brutal reality stopped internationally acclaimed Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov from writing fiction, so he instead tells the story ofRead More →

One of the great worries of conservatives in the late Victorian era was a phenomenon known as ‘The Girl of the Day’, in reference to troublesome young women like Gwendolen Harleth, heroine of Daniel Deronda’s George Eliot. Losses, independent and restless, they constitute a type subversively reluctant to play theRead More →

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Victory could not have come at a better time for Sri Lanka, a country once again committed to political and economic instability, as it endures one of the world’sRead More →

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Victory could not have come at a better time for Sri Lanka, a country once again committed to political and economic instability, as it endures one of the world’sRead More →

Yet, like Ahab hunting his white whale, Irving has spent decades hunting absent fathers through his fiction. His novels were launched by the “fear” he felt on becoming a father himself, at age 22, when his first wife, Shyla Leary, whom he had met when they were both students, gaveRead More →

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Novelist and essayist Xu Xi will offer a reading at Penn State as part of this year’s Mary E. Rolling Reading series. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, October 13 in the Paterno Library’sRead More →

Ivan Vladislavic. (Photo: provided) The Nobel Prize for Literature is to be announced on Thursday. Bookmakers are predicting that Ivan Vladislavic of SA has a 25 to 1 chance of winning the coveted prize. However, many believe Salman Rushdie could win the prize following the attack on the author earlierRead More →

“Fen, Bog and Swamp: A brief history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis” By Annie Proulx; Scribner, 2022; 208 pages; $26.99. According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, “Wetland habitats in Alaska are numerous and complex, comprising 43.3 percent of the state’s land area.”Read More →

CHATFIELD, Minn. “Thanks to her mother, Anne Gunn knows good places to hide a body in Tucson, Arizona. Gunn’s mother, Elizabeth Gunn, a native of Chatfield, Minnesota, wrote and published mystery and crime novels. Elizabeth Gunn, formerly Elizabeth McConnell, died in Helena, Montana, in August at the age of 95.Read More →

Author Charles Cordell will be on the grounds of South Parade on Tuesday October 4 for a talk on the role of the Peak District freeminers as conflict raged in the mid-17th century. He will be joined by a group of Civil War re-enactors from the King’s Lifeguard of FooteRead More →

Hilary Mantel, the British author of the best-selling ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy and the first woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize twice, has died. She was 70, her publisher and agent announced Friday. Mantel, who was considered one of the greatest English-language novelists of this century, died “suddenly but peacefully”Read More →

I have always been impressed when elected officials of yesterday and today write a work of fiction. To me, that shows they’re not just obsessed with power and politics, although that’s also true. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Newt Gingrich, Barbara Boxer from California, GaryRead More →

Author Lynda Cohen Loigman’s new book “The Matchmaker’s Gift,” her third novel, is out this week. Loigman got the idea for the book when she learned that her daughter’s roommate’s grandmother was a matchmaker. Shortly after the COVID-19 lockdown began, a compilation of circumstances helped spark the idea for localRead More →

In 1840, Charles Dickens wrote that he was undergoing “unbearable torture”. The cause was what he called “facial rheumatism”. We know it today as trigeminal neuralgia, an inflammation of the cranial nerve that causes severe facial pain. Most Victorians were worried about their health and Dickens was no exception. AsRead More →

Javier Marías Franco was born in Madrid on September 20, 1951, the fourth of five sons. His mother, Dolores Franco (no relation to the dictator), was a translator and editor. The family enjoyed several stints in the United States when he was young, with his father, still blacklisted in Spain,Read More →

Richard Setlowe, a longtime entertainment journalist who transitioned from his Variety teamwork to become a network executive and later a prolific novelist, died Aug. 25 at Kaiser Permanente in Panorama City, Calif., after long-term health issues. He was 89 years old. Setlowe worked as a writer and editor at theRead More →

Dean Koontz is a renowned novelist, known for books such as Devoted, The big black sky, and Odd Thomas. His books top the New York Times bestseller charts and, at 77, he doesn’t plan to quit the fiction business anytime soon. He is also a longtime proponent of intelligent designRead More →

Zimbabwean novelist, NoViolet Bulawayo has been shortlisted for prestigious literary awards’Booker’s Prize of Great Britain”. In describing ‘Glory’ – his latest work shortlisted for the prize – the judges of Britain’s Booker Prize said “This political satire goes beyond Zimbabwe and could concern nations with despoticRead More →

Novelist Wiley Cash will read excerpts from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, October 3 at Lynchburg University. The reading, which will take place in the Hall Campus Center’s Memorial Ballroom, will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing. Admission is free and the public isRead More →

Since a presence as private and enigmatic as the famous thriller writer – and unwitting queer icon – Patricia Highsmith may not make the easiest cinematic dissection, the documentary “Loving Highsmith” earns points for digging up as much as it does. But that alone isn’t enough to fully recommend thisRead More →

Library of PatmosPhoto: Google Maps Best-selling romance novelist Nora Roberts just wrote a page-turning response to haters in Michigan, where she donated $50,000 to a bottomless library. She says there are more where that came from, if they need it. And she can afford it. Roberts, 71, is the authorRead More →

THE QUESTION: In Islam, what is a fatwa? Why the demand to kill the novelist Salman Rushdie? THE RELIGIOUS GUY’S RESPONSE: In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s theocratic leader, ordered the “immediate” assassination of novelist Salman Rushdie because of his novel “The Satanic Verses”. Remarkably, this official fatwa imposed theRead More →

Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of prominent novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted he had only “read like two pages” of satanic verses, Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all MuslimsRead More →

Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of famed novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted he only had “read like two pages” of satanic verses, Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all MuslimsRead More →

(MENAFN – The Conversation) Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of distinguished novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted he had ‘only read two pages’ of ‘The Satanic Verses’, Rushdie’s 1988 novel which caused anger fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced aRead More →

Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of famed novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted he only had “read like two pages” of “satanic versesRushdie’s 1988 novel that angered fundamentalist Muslims around the world. Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ruhollah Khomeini, who announced a fatwa calling on all Muslims toRead More →

April Davila Working in a library, in addition to providing the obvious benefit of easy access to books, also gives budding authors an idea of ​​what people are reading. —April Davila LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, August 25, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Award-winning novelist April Dàvila explains the fundamentals of reading whenRead More →

In 1968, the British literary quarterly Scope, under the editorial auspices of JG Ballard, Edwin Brock and Martin Bax, held an infamous competition for the best work written while under the influence of drugs. Years later, in a interview for The Paris review, Ballard recalled that in terms of literaryRead More →

WhatsApp Facebook Twitter E-mail Messenger This post has been read 2528 times! NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (AP): Fox News is getting into filmmaking with its first feature film, an adaptation of romance novelist Nancy Naigle’s “The Shell Collector.” The film, which debuts Sept. 1, is the first of four filmsRead More →

Christopher Barzac YOUNGSTOWN – Growing up on a farm in Kinsman, Christopher Barzak spent his days pondering stories that took him to faraway places. They acted as a substitute for the lack of children to play with in the neighborhood. “I spent a lot of timeRead More →

Jeri Goodkind reluctantly says goodbye to the Boulder City home she shared with her late husband Terry Goodkind, the fantasy novelist behind the hit epic fantasy series “The Sword of Truth.” “It’s just a lot for me right now,” said Jeri Goodkind, who is looking to downsize. The 8,000 squareRead More →

Purser was educated at Birkenhead School and during World War II spent six months at King’s College, Cambridge, on an army short course. In 1944 he joined the Royal Engineers and became a platoon sergeant in a field company at the age of 20. In a way, he regrets notRead More →

Salman Rushdie was attacked minutes before he was due to give a talk at an event on Friday. New York: British author Salman Rushdie, whose writing has made him the target of Iranian death threats, underwent emergency surgery on Friday after an assailant stabbed him in the neck at aRead More →

Today it was announced that the renowned and award-winning English illustrator and one of the parents of the British form of the graphic novel – including the dark nuclear war parable When the wind blows – Raymond Briggs died at the age of 88. He was suffering from pneumonia. AffectionatelyRead More →

MINNEAPOLIS — Because Ben Percy’s daughter, Madeline, wanted more female heroes, the Northfield writer’s new movie opens Friday, featuring plenty of them. “One day after she got off the bus, I heard the backpack spill out and she come upstairs,” said Percy, who writes Wolverine comics for Marvel and whoseRead More →

By Nathan Kamal | Posted 8 hours ago Charlize Theron has spent her career ping-ponging between glossy prestige dramas and action-packed, CGI-heavy sci-fi movies. Sometimes that means she’ll be in highly respected characters like the Jason Reitman-Diablo Cody movie. young adult (in which she played a haunted misanthropic ghost writer)Read More →

Australian writer Sulari Gentill never wanted to be a novelist. She said there was no plan, no grand design. In fact, it happened quite by accident. The author of the bestselling new novel The woman in the library was a lawyer and “serial amateur”. She would pick a hobby, doRead More →

Larry Slonaker has paid his dues to the San Jose Mercury News and is currently promoting his first novel, “Nothing Got Broke.” There is an old chestnut tree of advice when it comes to writing novels, “Write what you know”, which is generally attributed to Mark Twain. Like Twain, orRead More →

By Ken Keuffel, Pfeiffer University When Laura Hickey Michaud (class of 94) from New Orleans first enrolled at Pfeiffer College, English, her major, was offered in two iterations: English Literature or English Writing Studies. Michaud, who wanted to write professionally, chose the latter, and last March the seeds of thatRead More →

Ddocumentaries about acclaimed authors can often be stereotyped; this honest and engaging study makes a refreshing difference. Robert B Weide, who directed many episodes of the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm, as well as documentaries on the Marx brothers and Woody Allen and wrote the little-seen adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’sRead More →

Telesforo Sugdan Sungkit Jr. at a student conference in 2014. Photo from TS Sungkit Jr’s Facebook page. MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/July 19) – Novelist and poet Higaonon Telesforo Sugdan Sungkit Jr. died on Tuesday morning. Ramel S. Sungkit, an older brother, confirmed the information Tuesday noon. He said his brother diedRead More →

She managed to balance the demands of being a legal luminary with that of writing seductive romance novels. Rilys Adams, 32, has worn her long black dress in courtrooms for eight years, but long before that she started putting her pen to paper as a storyteller. Adams earned his LL.B.Read More →

A Award-winning author Joan Lingard has died aged 90. Ms Lingard wrote around 60 novels for children and adults throughout her life, many of them set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. She was born in the back of a taxi on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile in 1932 and moved toRead More →

Most new parents tell a story of insomnia, anxiety, confusion, boredom, and chaos – with a small dollop of joy to boot. So it was for Keith Gessen ’98. The experience turned out to be so powerful that the novelist and journalist decided he had to write about it, evenRead More →

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WESTERLY — Best-selling novelist David Baldacci will be heading to the United Theater next week to talk about his latest book, ‘The 6:20 Man,’ as part of a program organized by Savoy Bookshop and Café. The book centers on Travis Devine, who every day flawlessly dons a cheap suit, grabsRead More →

Mat Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities at the University of Oregon. His previous books include Pym and Love day. Courtesy of the University of Oregon hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the University of Oregon Mat Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities atRead More →

Mat Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities at the University of Oregon. His previous books include Pym and Love day. Courtesy of the University of Oregon hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the University of Oregon Mat Johnson is the Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities atRead More →

Novelist Mat Johnson thinks America has its own unique “flavor” of the apocalypse. “It’s hard not to see the possible end of things in different ways,” he says. Johnson’s new satirical novel, Invisible things, serves up one of those apocalyptic flavors. Set in the future, the novel takes place onRead More →

heights of serenity is filled with the comically bitter reflections of a was. The protagonist of Milwaukeean Bill Zaferos’ second novel, “Rockin’ Donnie” Derringer, was once a high-flying FM jock reduced to graveyard hours at KYJL in Deerhead, MN. Adding injury to his damaged ego, Derringer is trapped in aRead More →

By Ed Symkus “I’m really dark. Everything I write is dark. Most people don’t know what black fiction is, but agents ask for it. Author Gary S. Kadet. Photo: Nancy Durocher Newton native Gary S. Kadet doesn’t talk much about what he did before his first novel, D/s – AnRead More →

Translated by Mitch Ginsburg AB Yehoshua – “Buli” – was a man in perpetual motion, a fast and restless man, indefatigable, intellectually dynamic and of a demanding curiosity. Every time I was with him, every time we spoke, I felt his inner passion, his growling ardor, sometimes even a roar,Read More →

AFTER President Clinton left office, he set to work on his memoir. As did Barack Obama and almost all the Oval Office holders of the last decades. These typically turgid tomes were often followed by tales from their wives, providing a stereophonic perspective on their years in the White House.Read More →

Acclaimed novelist and short story writer Mia Gallagher will judge entries for the 2022 Allingham Flash Fiction Competition. The competition is currently open and entries are being accepted until September 16. Mia Gallagher is the author of two novels: HellFire (Penguin, 2006) and Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland (NewRead More →

Selin is back! The bright and curious heroine of Elif Batuman’s acclaimed debut novel, The idiot, is now in his second year at Harvard, still hungry for experience. From awkward sexual encounters to depression to lingering questions about how to live and become a writer – in Batuman’s new novel,Read More →

Wednesday, The Guardian reported this Dogsa 2022 novel by Australian writer John Hughes, contains passages copied roughly wholesale without attribution of Gatsby the magnificentand English translations of Anna Karenina and In the west, nothing is new. Previously, it had been discovered that he had extracted passages from an English translationRead More →

(JTA) — AB Yehoshua, the novelist, took a sharp knife in the pretensions and delusions of his fellow citizens, writing books that laid Israel bare like an open, bleeding wound. But AB Yehoshua the diviner sought to heal the wounds, to reconcile the Israelis with the Palestinians, with the JewishRead More →

Thriller novelist James Patterson claims ‘older white male writers’ are victims of ‘racism’ – and says it’s harder for them to get ‘writing gigs in film, theatre, television or publishing” nowadays James Patterson, 75, of Newburgh, says white writers face ‘racism’ Along Came a Spider writer says it’s hard forRead More →

Photos courtesy of Walter Pearce. “The novelist: a novel is the first novel by Jordan Castro. This nine-word opening sentence—self-aware, direct, and containing the word novel three times—seems like the fitting introduction to a conversation about this self-fiction book about self-fiction. Castro, influenced by Nicholson Baker The Mezzanine and ThomasRead More →

Australian author John Hughes has apologized for unintentionally plagiarizing parts of a Nobel laureate’s work after a Guardian Australia investigation found multiple similarities and identical instances in his new novel, The Dogs, which has been nominated for Australia’s most prestigious literary award. Nearly 60 similarities and identical phrases were foundRead More →

Author Leila Mottley, 19, says she thought she was joining a Zoom call with her editor and publicist to discuss the release date for her new novel, ‘Nightcrawling’. Little did she know that Oprah Winfrey would join the call to announce that her book had been chosen for Oprah’s BookRead More →

Barbadian George Lamming talks about his world famous novel, iIn The Castle of My Skin.’ Screenshot taken from a YouTube video Posted by NCF Barbados. Renowned Barbadian novelist George Lamming passed away on Saturday, June 4, at the age of 94. He will be granted official funeral on his nativeRead More →

Nihon University in Tokyo on June 3 appointed award-winning novelist Mariko Hayashi as chair of the board of trustees, a position that was vacated by a powerful and longtime president who became embroiled in a scandal. Hayashi, 68, a graduate of the private university’s College of Art, succeeds Hidetoshi Tanaka,Read More →

Jordan CastroNovelist (Soft Skull, 2022) For any computer user, the opening phrase of Jordan Castro’s compact, brilliant and very funny first novel Novelist is decidedly accurate and not a little weird: “I opened my laptop, still waiting for my morning tea to steep, and tried to type in my passwordRead More →

Claire Mulligan writes for Culture on her journey from third place in the RTÉ Short Story Competition to leading children’s adventure novelist The hunt for David Bermannow in bookstores. Sometimes there are seemingly small steps that, when combined, take you very far from where you started. I’ve always written snippetsRead More →

Every working day, New Jersey construction worker Bud Smith takes a coffee break and a lunch break. This gives him 15 to 30 minute intervals to type out the ideas swirling around in his head. That’s how Smith, 40, came to write his novel ‘Teenager’ (Vintage Books), a Bonnie andRead More →

If you ever wanted to understand what “life imitates art” means, then maybe this could be your crash course. An American novelist who wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband” has been found guilty of murdering her husband. She shot her husband twice in the chest. Do gunsRead More →

Kurkov continued to write his article on the plane, and by the time we got to Charles de Gaulle, it was over. He was staying in a hotel near the Luxembourg Gardens. When we got there, in the pouring rain, a little after 11:30 a.m., someone from his French editor,Read More →

When Gray fired him in 2002, Mr. Goolrick reinvented himself as a writer. He soon began work on his first novel, “A Reliable Wife”, an erotic story set in rural Wisconsin in 1907. A wealthy businessman advertises a wife – for “practical reasons and not romantics” – but the womanRead More →

By Adam Kirsch (JTA) — For many young Jews, criticizing Israel is itself a form of attachment. They may not consider themselves responsible to the Jewish state, but they certainly feel responsible to the world. The same goes for some Jewish writers, including Michael Chabon and his wife, Israeli-born novelistRead More →

The Oregon novelist accused of shooting her husband dead in 2018 spoke in court on Monday for the first time since her murder trial began seven weeks ago, acknowledging that she was filmed trying driving near the crime scene at the time of the murder. Nancy Crampton Brophy initially toldRead More →

American novelist, poet and essayist Patricia Lockwood has won Swansea University’s Dylan Thomas Prize, worth £20,000, for her ‘witty-grabbing and innovative take on modern internet culture’. The award, given to Lockwood for his debut novel No One Is Talking About This, is given to an author aged 39 or youngerRead More →

(JTA) — For many young Jews, criticizing Israel is itself a form of attachment. They may not consider themselves responsible to the Jewish state, but they certainly feel responsible to the world. So do some Jewish writers, including Michael Chabon and his wife, Israeli-born novelist Ayelet Waldman, who together editedRead More →

Jumi Bello’s essay on why she plagiarized parts of her debut novel, due out later this year, was taken down on Monday after the online article was discovered to also contain plagiarism. The online magazine Literary Hub had published the essay, titled “I plagiarized parts of my first novel. Here’sRead More →

The trial of an Oregon romance novelist accused of shooting her husband took a surprising turn this week when a prosecutor suggested Nancy Crampton Brophy accidentally confessed to the shooting with a slip. Crampton Brophy allegedly described the shooting to another inmate she lived with, Multnomah County Senior Assistant DistrictRead More →

What happens when a person questions the thing closest to their heart: themselves? I had recently overheard a conversation at Rose Elementary School in Escondido, California, where one of the oldest children – he must have been in sixth grade – banged his chest and proclaimed, “I can hardly waitRead More →

Once the favorite pub of famous Gloucestershire writer, Laurie Lee, The Woolpack in Slad is one of the county’s most well-known and beloved inns. Perched on the side of one of Stroud’s five valleys, this historic inn has been pulling pints for hundreds of years and is pretty much everythingRead More →

Charles Dodd White is a writer who has lived in East Tennessee for nearly a decade and teaches at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. He’s written six books, and he’ll be in Jackson on Saturday to discuss one of them: “How Fire Runs.” The Griot Collective of West TennesseeRead More →

Novelist Farzana Doctor.Tanja-Tiziana Burdi/Document A lot has changed since the last meeting with Farzana Doctor. In 2019, there was an unbalanced heart latte between us and chatter from nearby tables that we had to enunciate. This time we were framed on bright screens in front of makeshift desks in T-shirtsRead More →

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The trial of a self-published novelist accused of fatally shooting her chief husband has been temporarily suspended due to a positive COVID-19 test. Nancy Crampton Brophy was arrested in September 2018, facing a murder charge in the death of 63-year-old Daniel Brophy. KOIN-TV reported Friday thatRead More →

In the hotel in Corbridge, Northumberland, the day before I left earlier this month, there are men talking loudly about whiskey and fishing. We’re talking about just enjoying the day. It is your day, at the end of the day. Outside, the cold turns to frost and the river slamsRead More →

Best-selling author Don Winslow was born in New York, but grew up in Rhode Island, primarily in Perryville, near Matunuck. He now divides his time between California and his restored family home in Perryville. His most famous books were set in California, particularly the “Cartel” trilogy, amid the brutal drugRead More →

Neighborhood Jesmyn Jesmyn Ward, novelist and professor of English at Tulane University, will deliver Carleton College’s convocation address on Friday, April 22 from 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. at Skinner Chapel. In her presentation, she will talk about her experiences growing up poor and black in the South and how herRead More →

NEW YORK: The son of acclaimed novelist Paul Auster has been charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in the overdose death of his 10-month-old daughter, New York police said Sunday. Daniel Auster’s daughter Ruby was found unconscious in a Brooklyn home on November 1 last year and pronounced dead afterRead More →

To say that Colson Whitehead is on a roll as he prepares to come to Kleinhans Music Hall on April 21 for the Just Buffalo Literary Center’s BABEL series would be an understatement. Before Whitehead’s 2021 novel ‘The Harlem Shuffle’, the Manhattan native became the only writer to win theRead More →

Satirical novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija says he managed to raise 40 million shillings for his court-ordered arrestees for not appearing in court. On January 25, 2022, Buganda Road Magistrate’s Court granted Kakwenza a cash bond of 500,000 shillings and his four sureties were each bonded with a non-cash bond of 10Read More →

B Best-selling novelist Henry Patterson, who wrote 85 books – including The Eagle Has Landed – as Jack Higgins, has died aged 92, his publisher HarperCollins has said. Patterson, who primarily wrote thrillers and spy novels – which sold more than 250 million copies and were translated into around 60Read More →

Staff report Acclaimed author Michelle Richmond, a Mobile native whose recent novel “The Wonder Test” has been hailed as a “gripping thriller” and a witty satire of “high-stakes education,” will receive the Hall-Waters Prize from the Troy University on April 14. Richmond will discuss the evolution of her career fromRead More →

In the UK, the University of Stirling has removed acclaimed English novelist Jane Austen from English literature in a bid to ‘decolonise the curriculum’, UK media reported. According to reports, the University of Stirling’s English Literature program has added award-winning writer Toni Morrison in place of Austen, who wrote popularRead More →

Published November 2020 and edited by Tony Williams, this hardcover book from SafeHaven Books comes in a handy 197 x 129mm format with 224 pages. It is purely textual, with the exception of contemporary illustrations on the first page of each chapter. It has a published price of £14.99 andRead More →

Maureen Howard, a writer acclaimed for her biting humor and polished, shimmering prose who often examined the lives of self-critical women seeking to find their place in the world, has died aged 91. Howard published 10 works of fiction and an award-winning autobiography during a writing career that began inRead More →

Near the center of Geneva is a complex surrounded by barbed wire in which paintings belonging to some of the world’s richest oligarchs are hidden. It’s called a Freeport (there are several around the world, including eight planned for the UK) because it allows goods to be stored without incurringRead More →

Ted Mooney, award-winning novelist and, from 1977 to 2008, editor at Art in America, died Tuesday at the age of 70 after a long heart attack. He is best known as the author of Easy travel to other planets (1981), which received the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction fromRead More →

In other words, he predicted Vladimir Putin. The writer was Vladimir Voinovich, and his novel was “Moscow 2042”, a dystopian satire about a man who embarks on a journey into the next century. The protagonist, a freelance writer named Vitaly Nikitich Kartsev, boards a Lufthansa spaceflight in 1982, consumes moreRead More →

Maureen Howard, who first came to attention in 1965 with her novel “Bridgeport Bus,” which came to be seen as a precursor to second-wave feminism, and went on to write ambitious and acclaimed books for 45 years older, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 91 years old. His daughter,Read More →

Novelist Jenni Fagan: What gives me hope is that ordinary people can do extraordinary things Calendar An icon of a desktop calendar. to cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across it. Caret A right-pointing solid arrow icon. E-mail An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook AnRead More →

The truth is probably more that Vargas Llosa has always been a writer who allows himself enormous latitude and license, and that he has been able to take work that tends to sound trashy and turn it into a miracle of invention. What has sometimes gone wrong with his fiction,Read More →

‘A male writer doesn’t have to like women’: Novelist Howard Jacobson, 79, says misogyny ‘isn’t a word that should be used about authors’ as he hits back at publishing’s crisis of sensitivity Author Howard Jacobson, 79, opens up about sensitivity in the publishing world These writers shouldn’t be accused ofRead More →

By Express press service BHUBANESWAR: Novelist Dr Padmaja Paul will receive the inaugural Sukubina Srahsta Memorial Award on March 3 for excellence in the field of Odia literature. The prize, which includes a sum of Rs 50,000 and a citation, will be awarded by the eminent poet Dr Sitakanta Mohapatra.Read More →

Kakwenza fled Uganda on February 9, 2022, allegedly via Rwanda, Malawi and South Africa. He is said to have traveled to Europe on a South African passport after failing to obtain his Ugandan passport from the courts. He had been released on bail, despite a trial for offensive communication. SatiricalRead More →

Tell us a bit about yourself.My name is Hannah Kent and I am a novelist and screenwriter. I live in Peramangk country in the beautiful Adelaide Hills with my wife and our two small children. I grew up in the hills, and although I spent many years living interstate andRead More →