Literature - January 2012
In this month’s e-newsletter:
• LIFE SENTENCES by William H Gass
• THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON by Adam Johnson
• PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford
• PANORAMA by H. G. Adler
• THE FLAME ALPHABET by Ben Marcus
• ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD by E.L. Doctorow
• THE FAT YEARS by Koonchung Chan
• THE ART OF HEARING HEARTBEATS by Jan-Philipp Sendker
• ALSO OF INTEREST
Life Sentences
Literary Judgments and Accounts
Written by William H Gass
Knopf | Hardcover | January 2012
978-0-307-59584-3 | 368 pages | $28.95/$33.00 (Canada)
A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.
It begins with the …
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Everybody Needs a Father
January 28, 2012
Ralph Fletcher, in A Writer’s Notebook (for ages 8–12, but really for anyone who writes), promotes the use of notebooks as incubators/ditches/containers/sponges/private rooms/mineralized rocks for our words, pictures, drawings, and scraps. He includes examples from his own notebooks and from students he’s known. This one, from a fifth grader named Stephanie, softened my afternoon of work, making me think not of missing my own father (though that can always be assumed), but of the power and loveliness of a good parent, …
New 2012 titles now available from
The Crab Orchard
Series in Poetry
edited by John Tribble
from Southern Illinois University Press
Heavenly Bodies is the winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry 2010 Editor’s Selection
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Author Bio
Cynthia Huntington is the author of four books of poetry, including The Radiant (winner of the Levis Prize), The Fish-Wife, and We Have Gone to the Beach, as well as a prose memoir, The Salt House. A former New Hampshire State Poet Laureate, she is professor of English at Dartmouth …
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Authors of the World Unite! | 25 January 2012
Dear former member,
Did you know that scientists at Cornell University invented a time cloak—they hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second—and tinkered with the speed of light? A common theme in science fiction and comics, time travel has been explored in wide-ranging works of fiction from H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine to Audrey Niffenegger’sThe Time Traveler’s Wife. And Red Room authors, from James Patterson (Daniel X) to Karl Alexander (whose Time After Timewas made into a popular 1979 film) to Will Entrekin (The Prodigal Hour), …
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