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Anais Mitchell On Mountain Stage

Aug 11th, 2008 · The Vermont-born singer-songwriter finds a creative home in the place where literature and folk art meet. Here, she brings her distinctive voice to Mountain Stage, where she previews material from the folk opera she's currently producing.

Keywords: mountains · Singer · Creative · Opera · songwriter · Literature · folk · Vermont · Mitchell · Anais · emMountain

Beauty And Mischief In 'Anne Of Green Gables' *

Aug 2nd, 2008 · The Modern Library has released a special edition of Anne of Green Gables in honor of the book's centennial. Writer Gwenda Bond, who blogs about children's books and young-adult literature, discusses the importance of L.M. Montgomery's classic novel and her personal attachment to Anne.

Keywords: children · novel · Literature · adult · beauty · centennial · Montgomery · Blog · Ann · mischief · emAnn · Gables

Literary Adventures To Occupy The Long Weekend

Jul 4th, 2008 · We look at some the most exciting pieces of new literature. City of Thieves by David Benioff, The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst and The Finder by Colin Harrison top the list.

Keywords: Finder · Literature · adventure · Thieves · literary · Alan Furst · EmCity · David Benioff · Spies of Warsaw · Colin Harrison

An Unflinching, 'Street' View of the American Dream

Jun 16th, 2008 · Twenty years ago, author and literature professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina was looking for an undiscovered classic for her African-American-fiction class. What she found was Ann Petry's The Street, and she's been teaching it ever since.

Keywords: Americans · professor · African American · fictional · Literature · undiscovered · unflinching · Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina · Ann Petry

Authors Debate Ethics of Writing Private for Public **

May 1st, 2008 · Is it ever OK for writers to tell private stories for the good of the public? In a round-table discussion, three prominent writers — Annie Proulx, Uzodinma Iweala, and Michael Ondaatje — talk about the role of privacy in the public world of literature and the media.

Keywords: ethics · world · public · media · private · privacy · Writer · Literature · Annie Proulx · Uzodinma Iweala · Michael Ondaatje

Planting Trees in Memory of Lives Lost *

Apr 16th, 2008 · Richard Shryock, Virginia Tech's chairman of foreign languages and literatures, lost two faculty members and 15 students in his department in last April's shootings. A year later, he's planting trees in quiet reflection over their loss.

Keywords: chairman · students · memory · foreign · language · Literature · Faculty · Virginia Tech · Richard Shryock

Books: A Canary in the Relationship Coal Mine? *

Mar 31st, 2008 · Rachel Donadio talks about her essay in Sunday's New York Times, "It's Not You, It's Your Books." She writes that mismatched literary tastes can make it "chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast." Does love conquer literature? Listeners weigh in.

Keywords: New York Times · Literature · literary · romance · mismatched · conquer · Canary · Rachel Donadio · Not You · Your Books

We We Can Learn from Hypocrisy in Literature

Mar 12th, 2008 · What can we learn from fiction about embattled New York governor Eliot Spitzer? UC Berkeley English professor Catherine Gallagher discusses classic examples of hypocrisy.

Keywords: New York · professor · fictional · governors · Literature · hypocrisy · Eliot Spitzer · UC Berkeley English · Catherine Gallagher

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