By MICHELLE HOGMIRE | 10/15/13
10/13/13
“Oscar
Hijuelos, Who Won Pulitzer for Tale of Cuban-American Life, Dies at 62,” by
N.Y. Times’ Bruce Weber: “Oscar Hijuelos, a
Cuban-American novelist who wrote about the lives of immigrants adapting to a
new culture and became the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
for his 1989 book, “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” died on Saturday in
Manhattan. He was 62.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/books/oscar-hijuelos-cuban-american-writer-who-won-pulitzer-dies-at-62.html?_r=0
10/11/13
“Nobel Prize in
Literature: the women who’ve won it,” by The Telegraph’s Charlotte Runcie: Runcie lists
the 13 women who’ve won the Nobel Prize for Literature with recommended books
to read first, from Alice Munro in 2013 back to Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof
in 1909. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10370838/Books.html
“Neil Gaiman novel banned by New Mexico school after mother
objects,” by The Guardian’s David Barnett: “Neil Gaiman's urban fantasy novel
Neverwhere has been removed from a New Mexico school's "required reading
list" after a mother objected to her daughter bringing it home. According
to the state's KRQE news station, Nancy Wilmott
complained to Alamogordo High School because of the book's "sexual
innuendos and harsh language". http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/11/neil-gaiman-novel-banned-new-mexico-school?CMP=twt_fd&CMP=SOCxx2I2
“Trusting Thurber: On Created Nonfiction,” by L.A. Review of Books’
Maria Bustillos: Bustillos discusses Ohio humorist James Thurber’s influence
on today’s creative nonfiction writers. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/trusting-thurber-maria-bustillos-on-created-nonfiction
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