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A John Fox Jr. Centenary
http://sherrychandler.com/ 2008/ 09/ 28/ a-john-fox-jr-centenary/This year marks the 100th anniversary of John Fox Jr’s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Here’s the plot summary from Wikipedia: Set in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the twentieth century, a feud has been boiling for over thirty years between two influential mountain families: the Tollivers and the Falins.
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Citation de Chateaubriand
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Balance
http://sherrychandler.com/ 2008/ 09/ 14/ balance/Balance One of the highlights — there were many — of the 29th Kentucky Women Writers Conference was a panel discussion at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Lisa Williams, and Crystal Wilkinson. Subject: Poem or Story: Finding Your Subject’s Form.
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An Interview with Jim Tomlinson
http://sherrychandler.com/ 2008/ 09/ 04/ an-interview-with-jim-tomlinson/An Interview with Jim Tomlinson At Pen on Fire: BDB: Why do you write short stories? JT: Short stories give the writer a way to look at some single thing that puzzles or interests. You can turn a situation over in the story and examine it in detail. And maybe, as you write, you’ll reach some new level of understanding.
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For the first time…
http://myroom.brinknotes.org/ 2008/ 08/ 26/ for-the-first-time/Would your first time mean something when it was just forced? Would it bring something wonderful if it’s done for the sake of other people’s happiness? Would it still count if it’s just for fun? Would it be remembered if it’s just done to gratify constant requests? You can never forget your first time.
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In the Country of Men
http://sherrychandler.com/ 2008/ 08/ 20/ in-the-country-of-men/In the Country of Men Hisham Matar’s novel, In the Country of Men (Dial, 2006), is set in Libya in 1979, ten years after the coup that made Muammar al-Gaddafi “Leader and Guide of the Revolution.” It was a nation where neighbors spied on neighbors and dissenters were tortured into confessions to be made on national television.
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History May Still Produce Figures of Solzhenitsyn’s Scale
http://02varvara.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 14/ history-may-still-produce-figures-…Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Hero, Patriot, Christian, and Great Man. He is missed. Vechnaya Pamyat, rab bozhii Aleksandr! The last respects for Alexander Solzhenitsyn were done in a very dignified way, just as his life had been dignified.
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The Beagle Diary
http://sherrychandler.com/ 2008/ 08/ 12/ the-beagle-diary/The Beagle Diary Well, while I’m pointing the way to famous diaries online, here compliments of Heraclitean Fire, is Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary. As of this writing, nothing posted for August 12th.
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Orwell’s Diaries
http://sherrychandler.com/ 2008/ 08/ 11/ orwells-diaries/Orwell’s Diaries Another new blog that might bear watching is The Orwell Prize. As with Pepys Diary, this blog will make a daily transcription from Orwell’s journals. The personal diary began on August 9, 1938; the political began on September 7.
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Mahmoud Darwish (March 13, 1941-August 9, 2008)
http://sherrychandler.com/ 2008/ 08/ 10/ mahmoud-darwish-march-13-1941-august-9-…Mahmoud Darwish (March 13, 1941-August 9, 2008) From the Jerusalem Post: Renowned Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has died at 67, an aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday evening. Nabil Abu Rdeneh, an Abbas spokesman, said Darwish died at a hospital in Houston, Texas, following complications from an open heart surgery.
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