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Literary Travels
 
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Rowan Oak: Home of William Faulkner

Rowan Oak is the family home of William Faulkner, one of the most famous Southern authors to ever put pen to paper. Rowan Oak welcomes thousands of visitors each year. A visit to Faulkner’s home offers a rare glimpse into the l...
 
Interviews
 
Alice Munro and Margaret Attwood
Alice Munro and Margaret Attwood
Alice Munro and Margaret Attwood

Margaret Atwood interviews Alice Munro

Alice Munro has published 13 collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, includ...
 
Literary Prizes
 
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The Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2013

What’s more exciting than the Oscars, the Olympics, and the American Idol finale put together? If you’re a literature lover in the UK, the answer is the annual Booker Prize race. Since 1968 the Booker has been awarded to the be...

 
Book Lists
 
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A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Titles That Promise Too Much

For some of my rules and preferences about book titles, see my related article this week, “What’s in a Name?” I’m wary of long and overcomplicated titles; all too often, I fear, they might be masking a book that actually has ve...
 
Lost Classics
 
Knut Hamsun in 1890 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Knut Hamsun in 1890 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Knut Hamsun in 1890 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

A Lost Classic: Hunger by Knut Hamsun

It’s uncertain where the term “starving artist” originates, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find it attributable, at least in part, to the 1890 novel Hunger by Knut Hamsun. Hamsun’s unnamed narrator is a high-minded writer with ...