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Around Town: Holiday movies at local libraries
Post Views: 53 Free Movies The Oneida Public Library will show two movies this week, “Joyeux Noel” on Monday, Dec. 10, at 1 p.m., and “Home Alone” on Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. […]
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Nicolas Mathieu Wins Goncourt Prize for Work on France’s Forgotten
Post Views: 91 Nicolas Mathieu has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt Prize, for “Leurs Enfants Après Eux” (“Their Children After Them”), a portrait of teenagers growing up in a forgotten, hopeless region […]
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Haruki Murakami withdraws from alternative Nobel prize
Post Views: 68 The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has withdrawn from Sweden’s alternative to the Nobel prize for literature, citing a wish to concentrate on his writing. Established in the wake of the sexual assault scandal that […]
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French bookshops revolt after prize selects novel self-published on Amazon
Post Views: 79 French booksellers have called on literary judges to “defend books and not those who threaten them”, after one of France’s most prestigious prizes selected a self-published novel available only via Amazon. Among […]
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‘King of vegetables’: Peter Gilmore’s white asparagus risotto recipe
Post Views: 108 Iplanted my first vegetable garden about 12 years ago when, for the first time in my adult life, I moved into a house with a reasonably sized backyard. I started with […]
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John Calder obituary
Post Views: 80 In the 1950s the publisher and bookseller John Calder, who has died aged 91, introduced a British readership to some of the best writing from Europe, including the work of Samuel Beckett, Eugène […]
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A special relation: France’s love for Philip Roth
Post Views: 165 Decorated with a Legion of Honour, showered with French awards, American writer Philip Roth, who died Wednesday, was the object of great admiration in French literary circles. It was a love […]
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Proust’s love letters to composer go on display before Paris auction
Post Views: 252 In March 1896, Marcel Proust sat down to compose a letter to his first love and secret passion, the celebrated composer Reynaldo Hahn. The pair were the cultural beacons of their generation, but […]
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The next chapter: Paris’s riverside book kiosks cope with disappearing readers
Post Views: 221 One of the last small trades unique to Paris, the Seine-side bouquinistes’ iconic green stalls are said to make up the “world’s largest open-air bookshop”. But as readers recede, could an […]
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Book review: What brings men, women to war zone?
Post Views: 171 Choose this book if you wonder about private motives in wars. Why would someone voluntarily go to a war zone? I suggest this because in Elliot Ackerman’s book you will find […]