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Archives for October 2017

A Sacred Pastime: Reading a Great Book

October 23, 2017

Reading a Great Book - Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather

SOME TIME AGO, I realized that my strongest memories of a particular moment in my life were almost always illuminated by a novel I happened to be reading at the time. For example, I remembered being in a music class when I was twelve years old and a teacher who’d watched over a boy whose life was already marked by tragedy. [Read more…]

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The Now-Controversial Booker Prize

October 20, 2017

Man Booker Prize for Fiction - Prize Shortlist - 2017

IN RECENT YEARS, since the geographical borders of Booker Prize were expanded to include any work of fiction originally published in English, a debate reignites every October, the month the prize is awarded. This year for the second time in a row, an American has won. [Read more…]

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The Spouse Behind the Great Writer

October 11, 2017

The Spouse Behind the Great Writer - Kazuo Ishiguro and Lorna MacDougalWhen I heard the news that Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I was delighted. Not only is “Ish” (as everybody calls him) a wonderful writer, from my memory of my London days, he’s a decent down-to-earth-guy, confident but humble – a far cry from the stereotype of the egotistical writer. [Read more…]

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