Women’s fiction too “domestic”

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Yawn. Haven’t we had about enough of this Mars, Venus baloney? Straight out of the mouth of one of the Orange Prize judges comes this bit of high wisdom (emphasis mine): Muriel Gray, novelist, television presenter and this year’s chair of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (for which male writers are not eligible), accompanied [...]

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Stuart: A Life Backwards, by Alexander Masters

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

The frustration of everyone involved in a biography — the author, the reader, and the subject (if he or she is still living) — is the inability of the form to capture the essence of the “real” person who lurks inside a dense cocoon of facts, statistics, family connections, resumes, observations, interviews, letters, and photographs. [...]

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Farewell to Carolyn Hougan, Charlottesville novelist: 1943-2007

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

From the Backspace Newsletter: Carolyn Hougan, former Backspace guest speaker and one half of the husband and wife writing team known as John Case, passed away Sunday, January 25, at University Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. [Note: I think the date was actually February 25 -- see below.] [...]

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The “Big Read” begins!

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

If it’s April, it must be time for The Great Gatsby. This is the month that Charlottesville and Virginia have dedicated to reading F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s American classic. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities lists the following events: The Real Gatsby Wednesday April 4, 2007 7:00 PM Gordon Avenue Branch, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library 1500 Gordon [...]

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Listen to the frog…or else

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

This video hits the nail on the head — hard: My friend Silvia’s brother was an animator on Meet the Robinsons. Learn more on her blog, and check out the trailer in my sidebar. Cute!

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