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Harry Ransom Center Scores Ezra Pound Materials (Austinist)
Ezra Pound, courtesy Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin is literature's mecca, a near-sacred temple of the textual where one can venture to seek wisdom, inspiration, and, chief among others, context from their vast collection of letters, manuscripts, and assorted relics of past and present cultural icons. Just this year alone, at the ripe young age of 50, they ...
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PARTNERS ON LOLITA (Payvand Iran News)
Deepa Mehta and Azar Nafisi Team Up for Miramax and Participant Co-production based on Iranian Author's Best Selling Novel -Darius KADIVAR
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Shrugging off a Nobel panelist's snub (Denver Post)
Frequent readers of this column know that in general, I'm a skeptic when it comes to literary prizes. Literature isn't really a competitive sport, and often winners of awards represent a compromise among members of a committee.
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Seduction of an age-old debate (The Australian)
LOLITA continues to polarise readers, more than 50 years after its publication.
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Colloquially American, Junot Diaz artfully Latino (Toronto Star)
Every once in a while an exciting new voice comes along in English-language fiction, to expand the boundaries of the novel. Quite often that voice belongs to someone for whom English is a second language (think Joseph Conrad or Vladimir Nabokov or Salman Rushdie).
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