first American poet to win the £10‚000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry‚ for his book My Alexandria. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Doty also received a 1994 Whiting Writers’ Award. He has written twelve books of poetry and three memoirs. Firebird told the story of his childhood in the American South and in Arizona. Dog Years was a memoir of the lives of two of his dogs
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Michael Hemmingson 9700 Gilman Drive PMB 241 La Jolla‚ CA 92093 michaelhemmingson@yahoo.com approx. 2‚300 words My Review of Bill by Vern Myers Michael Hemmingson Bill: A Novella. Vern Myers. NY: Pelican Publishing. 102 pp. Cloth‚ $17.95. Reviewed by Gerald Bass To start‚ I would like you to know that I am writing this book review on an old fashioned manual typewriter‚ an Olympia Model 9 in fact‚ that I purchased at a consignment antique store. I think this
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During the years of 1965 to 1999‚ McCarthy published eight novels. He has won numerous grants and awards for his writing‚ including a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters‚ a Guggenheim‚ and the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. Like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor‚ McCarthy’s novels “have in common...a rustic and sometimes dark humor‚
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I began working on the material for my memoir‚ A Door in the Ocean‚ many years ago‚ way back in the year 2000. I was deep into the stories that would one day turn into my first fiction collection‚ The End of the Straight and Narrow‚ and back then I believed I was a dyed-in-the-wool fiction writer. I never considered that I had a life worth writing about‚ and like a lot of fiction writers‚ I’d been raised on the idea that nonfiction wasn’t the stuff of literature. There’s a long tradition of such
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& Langley‚The March‚ Billy Bathgate‚ Ragtime‚ the Book of Daniel‚ City of God‚ Welcome to Hard Times‚ Loon Lake‚ World’s Fair‚ The Waterworks‚ and All the Time in the World. Among his honors are the National Book Award‚ three National Book Critics Circle Awards‚ two PEN Faulkner Awards‚ The Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction and the presidentially-conferred National Humanities Medal. In 2009 he was short listed for the Man Booker International Prize honoring a writer’s lifetime achievement in fiction
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campaigns for Romulus Linney’s A Lesson Before Dying. The play‚ which makes a bold and moving statement about the link between learning and dignity‚ is an adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines’ book of the same title‚ which won the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award. Yes‚ members of whose-ever constituency‚ here’s a vote-getting narrative that says in no uncertain terms: It’s not power‚ not position‚ not clothes that makes the man. It’s education. Gaines’ story‚ which Linney simplifies for the stage but
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A Critical Analysis of F.H Batacan’s Smaller and Smaller Circles Finding the Killer Takes A Lot More Than an Investigation Jessica Brown E03 Introduction Through plot‚ point of view‚ setting‚ characters and themes with the incorporation of psychology‚ dilemmas and realities‚ Smaller and Smaller Circles will be analysed to show the development of the story and characters. With this in-depth research on all of these criteria‚ it will help with understanding how and where the story will be heading
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Female comic creators made a great impact on the comic industry although they are not so many. They gained recognition since they have beginning to create comic novels. Women creators have worked an every genre from superheroes to romance‚ westerns to war‚ crime to horror. Their subjects of discussion have expanded as women’s role in society has changed. They are on pressure in the society because the model of women is determined by the society and they have to write like that. However women comic
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a travel book of poems about Brazil’s surroundings. An Anthology of 20th Century Brazilian Poetry (1972) is exactly what it labels‚ Brazilian poetry. Geography III (1976) was her last collection of poems that earned her the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bishop died from a cerebral aneurysm in Boston on October 6‚ 1979. 	Due to Bishop’s magnificent following of readers‚ her poems have survived over twenty years after her death. There are many poems that carry an underlying meaning‚ and
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the Nation (2006)‚ and On Being A Teacher (2009) among others. He is an alumnus of Harvard University and a recipient of the National Book Award as well as the Robert F. Kennedy Award. Savage Inequalities was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992 and became a national bestseller. This book is a sociological genre composed of six chapters revealing inequalities within inner-city schools and the environment in which they operate. The author addresses the book in a point of view
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