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In which Tayari Jones knows why she sings, a sea turtle named Jammer is grateful to Mary Alice Monroe's readers, a couple of people get hot and bothered in Brevard, and Charlaine Harris discusses whether she is, or is not, a vampire.
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Ann Patchett named as one of Time's most influential people
- Monday, 02 April 2012 00:00
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Literary novelist Ann Patchett's fight to save independent bookshops, which has seen her open her own shop in Tennessee and champion the importance of bookselling on American television, has led to her nomination as one of Time magazine's most influential people in the world.
Harry Crews, (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012
- Sunday, 01 April 2012 00:00
“He told me ‘I want to get off this train,' ” Sally said. “He said he wanted to die at home.” Harry Crews dead at 76" Crews made Hemingway look like a weenie." Harry Crews, RIP
We don’t really talk about “Midwestern literature” post-Sherwood Anderson (or maybe Saul Bellow). “New England literature” sends us all the way back to Emerson and Thoreau. Yet you still hear “Southern Literature” all the time. It resounds like the drone-string of a banjo every time one of these old white rebel novelists dies. Harry Crews and the Death of Southern Literature
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