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Introducing My Ántonia

It is no coincidence that in the opening pages of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, her narrator, Jim Burden, at the age of 10, has buried his nose in a book about Jesse James. The boy is on a train traveling west from his home in Virginia, roughly the same trip Cather herself made at roughly the same... Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Female author submits novel under man's name. You will totally believe what happens next.

Writer Catherine Nichols submitted the opening pages to her novel to 50 literary agents under her own name, and then again using a man's name. Can you guess which name got more positive responses? Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Syrians Open New Arabic and Multilingual Bookshop in Istanbul

The displaced owners of Syria's Bright Fingers Publishing House are opening Pages, a new Arabic and multilingual bookstore in Istanbul, this week. The post Syrians Open New Arabic and Multilingual Bookshop in Istanbul appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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