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- Shakespeare and Company's new literary mural
- The English-language bookstore on Paris' left bank, Shakespeare and Company , has been a draw for generations of expatriate writers. That goes for both its first iteration, owned by Sylvia Beach, who was the original publisher of James…
- Los Angeles Times Blogs
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- 20/11/2009
- Book review: 'Becoming Americans,' edited by Ilan Stavans
- Anne Morris, a member of the National / The Dallas Morning News s Circle, lives in Austin. This ambitious anthology brings together 85 writings by American immigrants from 45 countries. Arranged chronologically, the letters, stories,…
- Dallas Morning News
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- Global Book Club Aims to Inspire Empathy
- Additional books on the list for 2010 include The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon, The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor, and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. Books by Wendell Berry, C.S. Lewis, Italo Calvino,…
- PRLog (free press release)
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- 18/11/2009
- Library news
- Cafe Parlez Book discussion group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30, to discuss Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories “Interpreter of Maladies.” Books are available at the desk or bring your own copy. Refreshments are served.
- Abington Mariner
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- 18/11/2009
- Medicine in Translation
- Jhumpa Lahiri used a beautiful phrase for the titular story of her marvelous first book: “The Interpreter of Maladies.” Doctors, of course, fit this bill—we are constantly interpreting our patients’ maladies—but we are also interpreting the…
- Salon
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- 21/11/2009
- An autumn bounty of books
- ... story collection, "Too Much Happiness," "The Interrogative Mood" by Padgett Powell; and the story collection "The Cost of Living" by Mavis Gallant, with an introduction by Jhumpa Lahiri. For readers interested in poetry, UF's literary…
- Gainesville Sun
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- In the age of Twitter, the short story thrives
- Print is dead. Long live the short story. So suggested book critic A.O. Scott in The New York Times in April: "The death of the novel is yesterday's news. The death of print may be tomorrow's headline. But the great American short story is…
- Raleigh News & Observer
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- 20/11/2009
- A life in books: Mavis Gallant
- A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big letters – and underneath it "Bad Prose". "I was devastated. Devastated for…
- The Guardian
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- 21/11/2009
The Guardian- Are Literary Agents And Publishers Racists, or Just Dumb?
- Cassie orders another coffee—American this time—either that or we are going to Starbucks for a pint-sized real coffee. It’s what she hates about Europe—they’re so stingy with the coffee. Why can’t they serve cappuccinos in soup bowls? She…
- Salon
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- 18/11/2009