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Henry James

Explore bountiful fall art happenings

Lots of art happenings this week, starting with tonight's "Vagabond Art Party" at The Office Gallery & Art Studios (47 E. Robinson, downtown), 5-9 p.m. This is the type of show you'd find in almost any large city: Artists just...

Children's Author Discusses Imagination in Stories and Life

Author Rutkoski talks about the books and advice that shaped her. Published On Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:43 PM This past summer a new novel burst onto the children’s literary scene. A story set in an enchanted world where...

Booking Through Thursday: Book Meme

What was the last book you bought? The Birds Fall Down, by Rebecca West. I’ve been looking for it since last year. Found it at the used bookstore for $6.50 Name a book you have read MORE than once The Master and Margarita by...

Obama woos the Rust Belt

For all the talk of Obama's "new politics", the presidency might well be determined by trade union members in failing industrial cities Sarah Palin skipped over the low expectations set for her debate with Joe Biden in St...

When the first novel is the best

How often does it happen that an author's first novel turns out to be his or her best? That's the question that bookbuyer Alison Morris asks in a blog posted yesterday on the Publishers Weekly website.

The Line of Beauty Reading and Analysis Guide

Questions for Analysis and Discussion of Hollinghurst's Novel A set of ten questions for individuals or groups to use in analyzing and discussing The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst. Hollinghurst’s novel references the work...

The Gate of Air, by James Buchan

James Buchan's new novel is a ghost story. It is set in the county of Brackshire, in a rural pile called Paradise Farm on the outskirts of the appropriately named village of Haze Common. Jim Smith, ousted by City financiers...

[OPINION] Who gets to define a ‘real’ American?

As Sarah Palin "aw-shucks-ed" her way through last Thursday's debate, she repeatedly played the one card that has become her stock in trade: She is a real American. Her rural roots, her lack of sophistication and worldliness,...

A Companion to Henry James, dir. G. W. Zacharias

A Companion to Henry James Sous la direction de GREG ZACHARIAS (CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY) Blackwell Publishing, coll. "Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture", 2008, 520p. Isbn (ean13) [Hardback]: 9781405140423 Présentation...

Poison

In the first chapter of Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's Poison (2007), a father, Peter, tells his two children a fairy tale about a giant and a mysterious "curse." Because of this curse, says Peter, "women had a bad habit of falling...

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