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2013/05/17 14:44
2013/05/17 14:44
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My wife and I went to see the revival of Peter Nichols' Passion Play in the West End this week. First produced in 1981, it was a drama about adultery and it got me thinking – whatever happened to...
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2013/05/16 16:14
2013/05/16 16:14
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Published at 17:03, Thursday, 16 May 2013 TALK to any teenager today and they will be able to talk to you for hours about Twilight or Harry Potter. Nowadays there is no shortage of magic and...
2013/05/16 10:57
2013/05/16 10:57
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In the event of a disaster, The City could be without critical information for weeks, an analysis of a proposed data center lease shows. The City’s recovery capability for essential information and...
2013/05/13 00:03
2013/05/13 00:03
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You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. On the list of great postwar American male novelists —...
2013/05/11 13:42
2013/05/11 13:42
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Eight years ago, the writer James Salter received a telephone call out of the blue from an admirer: an American general who had loved his novel The Huntersso much he had ordered copies of it for all...
2013/05/09 21:27
2013/05/09 21:27
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Murakami is a writer not only found in translation (in forty-plus languages, at the moment) but one who found himself in translation. He wrote the opening pages of his first novel, “Hear the Wind...
2013/05/04 21:07
2013/05/04 21:07
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SAN DIEGO - A San Diego 13-year-old is headed to New York City to accept a prestigious writing award once won by young literary giants like Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike. The...
2013/05/04 14:51
2013/05/04 14:51
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This year's Rea Award for the Short Story and its $30,000 prize go to the widely admired writer Richard Bausch, whose story collection "Something Is Out There" was published in 2010 while he was...
2013/05/03 15:28
2013/05/03 15:28
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For many years, E. B. White was the magazine’s chief springtime correspondent. On March 30, 1929, he reports, from Midtown, that “a butterfly has been sighted at Sixth Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street,...
2013/05/03 12:20
2013/05/03 12:20
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DAILY RITUALS: HOW ARTISTS WORK How do writers and other artists create their work? Our library of mental images includes visions of poets communing with nature, novelists burning the midnight oil...
2013/04/30 12:03
2013/04/30 12:03
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The Onion published an essay recently called "Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life."The piece was satire, but it's how many of us...
2013/04/29 19:44
2013/04/29 19:44
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Actor, writer, producer and humanitarian Matt Damon was awarded the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal by Harvard President Drew Faust at a ceremony on Thursday, April 25, at Sanders Theatre. The ceremony,...
2013/04/27 04:56
2013/04/27 04:56
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So The Scrapbook is rooting around on the Internet and stumbles on a blog piece by Ben Yagoda in the online edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Scrapbook begins to leave the page, but...
2013/04/25 15:07
2013/04/25 15:07
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Richard Bausch, author of eight story collections and winner of numerous other honors, is this year's recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story. The prize, announced Thursday, is given for...
2013/04/25 10:26
2013/04/25 10:26
24d
Françoise Gilot lived with Picasso for just under ten years and bore him two children. In Life with Picasso, she records that he was fond of referring to Braque as “only Madame Picasso”. When Picasso...
2013/04/21 23:11
2013/04/21 23:11
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It is silly to complain. Eight-an-a-half decades are a long enough span of existence, at the end of which some of the faculties are bound to betray evidence of a bit of wear and tear. I was having...
2013/04/18 23:09
2013/04/18 23:09
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Back in November of 2011, Errol Morris made a short documentary for the New York Times that is a profound meditation on the nature of evidence and the limits of our potential to understand the world...