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2 days ago by Gregg Morris

I’ve: — Heard her explanation on TV and reviewed published news stories, essentially that her resignation is in the best interest of Alaskans whom she loves. — Reviewed some jokes. — Listened to some political pundits (specific names don’t really matter at this point though it must be said that they ...

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4 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

Just picked up Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue (Columbia University Press, 368 pp., $29.50), the new book of poetry criticism by William Logan, who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Undiscovered Country. I’d read and enjoyed many of the pieces in Our Savage Art when they a ...

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32 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

A genteel Southern family stumbles after moving from one Tennessee city to another A Summons to Memphis. By Peter Taylor. Vintage 224 pp., $14.95. By Janice Harayda Northerners tend to think of the South as more unified than it is. The former Confederate states may have similarities that reflect the ...

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37 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

A main character’s name often gives you the first clue to what a novel is “about,” especially when it’s also the title of the book. A good example turns up in Olive Kitteridge, the collection of linked short stories that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A just-picked olive is as bitter — and ...

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48 days ago by Russ Baker

Earlier in May, the New York Times ran an intriguing piece about William McMasters, the Boston publicist who had helped unmask the con artist Charles Ponzi, after whom the term “Ponzi scheme” is named. One noteworthy passage, near the end of the article, notes McMasters’s frustration at his dealings ...

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60 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

Back in December, I wrote that Frank Bidart was turning into poetry’s equivalent of Susan Lucci, the soap opera star who lost l8 daytime Emmy awards before winning on her 19th nomination. After decades of work, Bidart is one of America’s most respected poets, but he has never won a National Book Awa ...

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62 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

Did the judges for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction assume that we all have attention deficit disorder? I’ve noted in recent reviews that the winner, Olive Kitteridge, and a finalist, All Souls, both consist of collections of disjointed stories. Other critics have made clear that the second final ...

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63 days ago by Julia Miranda

This year’s list of Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists includes a large number of women. Of course, like many women, I’m thrilled to hear this news, but another part of me is thrilled for what this will do for pop culture. What’s the connection you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. Last weekend I went to ...

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65 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

A review of Christine Schutt’s All Souls, a runner-up for the most recent Pulitzer Prize for fiction, will be the next post in the “Reality Check” series that explores whether the winners of or finalists for major prizes deserved their honors. All Souls involves a student at a girls’ prep school in ...

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70 days ago by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom

The latest in a series of occasional posts on the winners of or finalists for major literary prizes Olive Kitteridge. By Elizabeth Strout. Random House, 304 pp., $14, paperback. By Janice Harayda It tells you something about Olive Kitteridge that two of its 13 short stories were published in Sevente ...

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