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An Interview with Christopher Castellani about his novel Leading Men
In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously ...
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Marjan Kamali
An interview with Marjan Kamali, author of the forthcoming novel The Stationery Shop. ...
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When the Canon Takes Aim: A Review of Jordan Abel’s “Injun”
Injun, by Jordan Abel. Talonbooks, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. $16.95 (Canada/U.S.) The atrocities inflicted on the indigenous peoples of the Americas through the centuries are well-documented in both literary ...
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Heartache
She had used the word like a child in a fairy tale: rattlesnake, bone break, morning wake, milkshake. There are words we use, words we skid along the ...
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Dying Lessons
1. My mother sat in the entrance hall of her assisted living residence when I arrived. Her Barbara Bush white hair was brushed neatly, her gnarled toes overlapped ...
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“Eyes” by William H. Gass: A Review
William Gass is a master of the English language. His prose is smooth and muscular: at once honey dripping off a hot tin roof, and a hammer encased ...
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Like Water on Stone – a novel of Armenia
LIKE WATER ON STONE –two excerpts– About the book An award-winning novel in verse, Like Water on Stone is an imaginative reconstruction of the author’s grandmother’s escape and survival during ...
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An Armenian Voice- Zabel Yessayan 0
The House (The Gardens of Silihdar)
An indelible portrait of a house, and garden, in a long-vanished Constantinople, that formed Zabel's young imagination and gave shape to a writer's abiding sensibility ...
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An Armenian Voice- Zabel Yessayan 0
In the Ruins
"Under a superb, dazzling sun, the devastated city stretches outward like a cemetery without end." Zabel reports on the 1909 massacres in Adana ...
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An Armenian Voice- Zabel Yessayan 0
The Man
“In terror, there is a kind of sublime, delightful pleasure.” A haunted memory from Zabel's student days in Paris. ...
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My Self and I
When I was fourteen, I fell through a hotel window in Russia. It’s a story I have told countless times. The details were chosen almost immediately afterward and ...
