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Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home

Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home

By Profile Books
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So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (Penguin Classics)

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (Penguin Classics)

By Penguin Classics
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The World's Wife

The World's Wife

By Picador
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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

By Yale University Press
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Persepolis

Persepolis

By Vintage
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By New English Library
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume Two: 1923-1925: 1923-28 v. 2

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume Two: 1923-1925: 1923-28 v. 2

By Faber and Faber
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Virago Press Ltd
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Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives)

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives)

By HarperPerennial
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James Lees-Milne

James Lees-Milne

By John Murray
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EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: papers on women poets, novelists, diarists ...
EC/ASECS, Bethlehem: papers on women poets, novelists, diarists, playwrights. November 7, 2009 by ellenandjim. KaufmannMuseofComposition. Angelica Kauffman (171401807), The Muse of Composition. Dear Friends,. This is my fifth report on the smallish ..... Your posting also makes me think that I'd like to read Thrale Piozzi's travel book – I remember enjoying her memoirs of Johnson and the biography of her. It sounds as if it was a very good and stimulating conference.:) ...
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Spoonful: A Gathering of Stone Soup Poets
Paul Hapenny is a Multi-award winning Metis, Director, Playwright and Screenwriter based in Nova Scotia and Boston. Gary Hicks is the author of a pen is like a piece. you pick it up. you use it and a contributor to Poets against the Killing ... He then became an editor at Houghton Mifflin, where he read for its annual poetry series and worked with the editors of Selected Poems of Anne Sexton and the author of Anne Sexton: A Biography, as well as authors of all kinds. ...
http://spoonfuljournal.blogspot.com/2008/03/biographies-and-acknowledgements_7024.html

SF and Fantasy Masterworks: Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside (1972 ...
This, together with the novel's overly-elaborate references to a host of poets, novelist, playwrights, scientists, philosophers, artists and composers in its scant 199 pages speaks perhaps of the neuroses of a novelist uncomfortable with his success as a genre author and .... I too have struggled to find time to read SF recently and have been absorbed in WWI aviation, English Civil War titles, and a biography of Alasdair Gray. Did the book on trees grow on you? :) ...
http://sfandfantasymasterworks.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert-silverberg-dying-inside-1972.html

Copper Queen Library: What's New?: Spotlight on Biographies: Writers
Ginsberg: A Biography (by Barry Miles): Authoritative and immensely readable account of the life of one of the twentieth-century's most extraordinary poets. Drawing on his long friendship and literary association with Ginsberg, ... She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the world's best-loved novelists. Whether recalling arguments with her mother in suburban California or introducing us to the ghosts ...
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Scholars can delve into ancient and contemporary times, voyages and discoveries, biographies and memoirs in history and geography. They can also investigate how diseases were treated in medicine, look into science, technology and study other celebrated novelists, poets and playwrights in literature and language. Those with a passion for social science and fine arts can look into international business, banking, taxation, music, painting, theatres and architecture. ...
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How to Run a Reading Series (Episode 2: Johan Hultqvist of Free ...
As time went by and I got more entrenched in the arts community I kept meeting poets and novelists and playwrights and comedians who all lived in the neighbourhood. Then, in late 2006, my friend Eden Hertzog, who is a great writer and songwriter and entrepreneur called me up and said "would you ... As I often had a personal connection with the featured writers and songwriters I would introduce my guests by sharing personal stories as opposed to just reading someone's bio . ...
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Herta Müller Wins the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature - ArtsBeat ...
I'm glad that another woman has won, but come on, let's not forget that there are also brilliant poets, playwrights, and essayists as well as novelists and fiction writers. The saddest thing about this selection is that some of Germany's far better writers, like Christa Wolf, Peter Handke, .... By MICHIKO KAKUTANI. Sarah Palin's new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska. ...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/herta-muller-wins-the-2009-nobel-prize-for-literature/

Pambazuka - Review of Blogs on African Literature
BOOK Southern Africa is a literary news and social network for publishers, authors and the general book-buying and -reading public. BOOK SA reports on local fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, book happenings, reviews and more. ... This blog will try to answer this question by profiling novelists, poets and playwrights from that former British trust territory, most of whose works are not available out of Cameroon, and have only limited distribution within Cameroon. ...
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Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Agent Georges Borchardt | Poets & Writers
In 1953 he came across an Irish playwright and novelist who wrote in French and, after selling three of his books to Grove Press, American readers were introduced to the work of Samuel Beckett. Other early authors included Laurent de Brunhoff, .... own words beyond French, of some of his many secrets. Although he claims not to remember much, maybe Ferrari-Adler can get him to write, and then auction himself, Georges' very short autobiography. It will be worth millions. ...
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Agassi in New Book Reveals He Took Crystal Meth
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