by | Aug 5, 2008 | Literary News
from the NY Times BOOKS OF THE TIMES Lessing Looks Back on Shadows and Parents By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Published: August 5, 2008 Doris Lessing once declared that “fiction makes a better job of the truth” than straightforward reminiscence, and while that might well be true...
by | Aug 3, 2008 | Literary News
from AP via the Arizona Republic Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 Aug. 3, 2008 02:46 PMAssociated Press MOSCOW – Russian news agencies say author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning chronicler of the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has...
by | Aug 2, 2008 | Literary News
from Glenn Horowitz and John McWhinnie Rachel Feinstein Monograph Book Release Party Saturday, August 2nd, from 6 to 8 p.m. The first monograph on Rachel Feinstein includes full-color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and sculptural constructions from 1998 to 2008...
by | Jul 31, 2008 | Literary News
from The Orwell Diaires 29 July, 2008 by orwelldiaries Orwell Diaries 23 July, 2008 by orwelldiaries ‘When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page’, wrote George Orwell, in his 1939 essay on...
by | Jul 26, 2008 | Literary News
from the Independent Publishers Group The Olympics’ Strangest Moments Extraordinary but True Stories from the History of the Olympic Games Updated edition Geoff Tibballs (Author) The world’s greatest sporting occasion has historically been filled with unusual...
by | Jul 23, 2008 | Literary News
from the Guardian UK Lumley attacks ‘obscure’ new poetry The actress has been lambasted as old and out of touch for her controversial views on modern verse Amelia Hill , social affairs correspondent, The Observer When Joanna Lumley agreed to pen an...
