From today’s Washington Post, written by Marissa Newhall: Books by Sherman Alexie, Barbara Kingsolver, Lorraine M. López, Lorrie Moore and Colson Whitehead are finalists for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced Tuesday. Alexie’s short-story collection “War Dances” and Kingsolver’s historical novel “The Lacuna” are in contention for the $15,000 prize alongContinue reading “PEN Award finalists announced”
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Now I’ve read some boring books in my life. Of that, there is no doubt. But at least I can say that most, perhaps all, of my boring reads were assigned, not selected. Not so for my neighbor on a flight today. He, by choice, was reading Robert’s Rules of Order: All You Need toContinue reading
Nathan Day Wilson 