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Erica Abeel: Culture Wars: The Nation Hosts A Salon

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:29:49 GMT

The Nation magazine recently held a "Salon" to explore the question, What Will Become of Our Culture?
Source: Huffington Post

Our Man in Boston: That Write Stuff [Writing About Writers]

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:16 GMT

Now that I am more kindly disposed toward The Paris Review—the literary institution founded by George Plimpton and a cohort of his pals back in the wild and crazy 1950s—since they have dropped the hyperbolic “DNA of literature” slogan, I am pleased...
Source: The Morning News

Abused girl, uninterrupted: Thirteen years later, Sapphire's debut still shocks

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:54:53 GMT

screaming dialogue and blistering descriptions would be a false veneer of polite exchanges and precise scenery.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune

Panel Nerds: Is Kindle The Future Of Culture?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:26:03 GMT

Something as broad as the subject and role of “culture” demands an abstract discussion of ideas and implications. If this were another event, we would have been critical of the general questions that moderator Gene Seymour lobbed at the panel.
Source: Mediaite.com

A blessed life, with soundtrack

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:15:03 GMT

Cornel West asked me whether there'd be sunshine when he got to Seattle. It was overcast, so I said he might have to bring it with him.
Source: The Seattle Times

Alumni Remembrances: Mohsin Hamid '93

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:16:50 GMT

This week, we have a contribution by Mohsin Hamid '93, author of Moth Smoke (2000) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)! * WHEN UPDIKE SAVED ME FROM MORRISON (AND MYSELF) One day in the spring of 1993, Toni Morrison took me out for lunch.
Source: Daily Princetonian

Umberto Eco: master of the list by staff

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:14:11 GMT

“After Robert Badinter, Toni Morrison, Anselm Kiefer and Pierre Boulez, Umberto Eco is the next special guest curator of the Louvre.
Source: Artlog

Around The Nation

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:26:45 GMT

The opportunity to sit down and talk with the remarkable American writers (and Nation Editorial Board members) Toni Morrison, Tony Kushner, and Walter Mosley is rare enough one on one.
Source: The Nation

Quoted in 'Collection of note'

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:24:22 GMT

said in Columbus Dispatch:

Ohio has so many wonderful writers, from Sherwood Anderson to Toni Morrison, and children's writers like R.L. Stine and Virginia Hamilton.

Quoted in 'Toni Morrison MFA ’55 Inspires C.U. Community'

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:08:01 GMT

said in Cornell Daily Sun:

Toni Morrison is one of my favorite authors ... It’s exciting to see somebody you’ve admired for a long time. I thought it would be a very powerful experience, and it was.

Photo from AP Photo

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Italian writer Umberto Eco gestures prior to a press conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009. Umberto Eco is the Louvre Museum's guest of honor in 2009.

Photo from AP Photo

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Italian writer Umberto Eco is seen prior to a press conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Wednesday Sept. 30, 2009. Umberto Eco is the Louvre Museum's guest of honor in 2009.

Toni Morrison Talks About Her Motivation For Writing

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:01:52 GMT