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In “The Art of Reading Andre Dubus” (Poets & Writers Magazine, page 21), Joshua Bodwell includes this quote from the famed fiction writer Dubus: “If there were no sin, there wouldn’t be art.” Do you agree with Dubus’s claim? Is literature driven by actions and ideas of good and evil?
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Vermont Inn Invites Jane Austen Enthusiasts to Slip Back in Time
A Vermont inn recently announced that it will host a series of four themed weekends aimed at giving Jane Austen aficionados a taste of the author's nineteenth-century lifestyle.
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Hanks and Howard Banned From Filming Angels and Demons in Rome Churches
Debut Novelist Rawi Hage Wins IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Novelist Indra Sinha Joins Hunger Strike in New Delhi
Denis Johnson’s New Novel to Be Serialized in Playboy
Denis Johnson, whose epic novel Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) won the 2007 National Book Award in fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, will begin testing new literary waters this summer with a serial novel, written on deadline for and published in installments in Playboy.
HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman Resigns
Ashbery Adds to Long List of Honors, Wins Griffin Poetry Prize
On Wednesday, John Ashbery and Robin Blaser were named the winners of the eighth annual Griffin Poetry Prize, awarded to both a Canadian and an international author or translator for a book of poetry published in English during the previous year.
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