It was a good morning for author Louise Erdrich, as she was announced the recipient of 2012's National Book Award for her novel The Round House. Like much of Erdrich's other work (Love Medicine, The Red Convertible), The Round House concerns the life of a Native American family in crisis and a culture in jeopardy. The Round House is…
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Helen Fielding Working on New Bridget Jones Novel (v.g.)
Everyone's favourite singleton to be thrust into the brave new world of Twitterature. It's been thirteen long years since a new volume of Bridget Jones' diary, with all its obsessive weight woes and love laments, has been unleashed upon the world. In that time, fanatics have had to content themselves with reading the series' two…
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All Things Tolkien: Five Ways to Await the Release of “The Hobbit”
If you are counting the days until the December 14, 2012 release date of The Hobbit (Part I) chances are you do not have a girlfriend and therefore need to find ways to pass the time. (I kid the geeks... I kid. Some of them do not have boyfriends.) Not to worry. Since its original publication in 1937,…
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Mo Yan Wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
This morning, the Nobel Prize for Literature was announced. The committee has granted the prestigious award to 57-year Chinese author Mo Yan. In its press release, the Nobel Committee says that Mo Yan was selected for his writing that merges “hallucinatory realism (with) folk tales, history and the contemporary.” The choice, though widely lauded, has its…
Nora Ephron, Pioneer Woman
"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." Nora Ephron, one of America's most beloved humorists, died today at the age of 71. Unconfined to the mere role of "writer", Ephron transcended all genres. Journalist, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, essayist, blogger, she wore many hats, progressing from a young…
eNotes Picks 5 Anticipated Film Adaptations of 2012
Another summer, another parade of blockbusters attempting to keep movie studios in the black. But beside the action adventure films based on board games and comic book heroes, some of the most anticipated films of 2012 are its classic literary adaptations. Here's a wrap up of five you can expect to see in cinemas over…
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Fantasy Books for a Fantasy Land: LA Times Festival of Books Highlights
This past weekend thousands—yes, thousands—of literature lovers descended upon the University of Southern California’s campus to celebrate 2012’s LA Times Festival of Books. In its second year at the USC location, the event proves that Los Angeles isn’t the pariah of the book world that many would make it out to be. In fact, the…
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“The Only Power You Have is the Power to Discriminate”: Robert Crumb On Writers
Robert Crumb, or "R. Crumb," as he is widely known, was the founder and undisputed leader of the Underground comix movement, a collection of "rogue" artists whose critical and subversive views often satirized American culture in the 1960s and 1970s. One of the elements that makes Crumb's work so compelling is that he knows what…
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