Benazirs niece has reportedly sent proposal for as-yet-untitled memoir to British agent Apr 20, 2008
She published a book of poetry, Whispers of the Desert, at the age of 15, followed in 2006 by a collection of stories about the 2005 earthquake that killed 73,000 people in Pakistan. nni. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
* [ BOOK REVIEW ] At home in two worlds, at ease in neither Apr 6, 2008
As she did in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and her dazzling 2003 novel The Namesake, Lahiri writes about these people in Unaccustomed Earth with an intimate knowledge of their conflicted hearts, using her lapidary eye for detail to conjure their daily lives with extraordinary precision: the faint taste of coconut in the Nice cookies that a man associates with his dead wife; the Wonder Bread sandwiches, tinted green with curry, that a Bengali... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
After this, nothing was the same Mar 23, 2008
In fact, it is an exceptionally dense collection of stories, a web, to adopt the recurring metaphor that George Eliot used to depict life in a provincial town in the 1830s. At its centre stand Dorothea Brooke, an earnest young woman who yearns to do good in the world, and Tertius Lydgate, an ambitious and equally idealistic doctor determined to make his mark in Middlemarch. (Guardian Unlimited)
Anne Enright Mar 15, 2008
This success is mirrored in the US, where she has been on a publicity tour with Taking Pictures, her collection of stories published this month ... Her first collection of stories was published in 1991. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bestsellers list Jan 25, 2008
95, 9781400077922 A powerful collection of stories by the author of Away From Her. Trade Paperback Nonfiction. (Scranton Times, PA)
Imperilled publisher races for foreign fiction prize Jan 25, 2008
The first winner of the Man Booker International prize, Ismail Kadare, puts in an appearance for the second year in a row with a nomination for a translation twice removed - his collection of stories Agamemnon's Daughter was smuggled out of Albania in the 1980s before being published in French after Kadare joined his manuscripts in Paris. The collection is eligible for the 2008 prize after Canongate published David Bellos's English version last year. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Fatima Bhutto Jan 11, 2008
She published a book of poetry, Whispers of the Desert, at the precocious age of 15, followed in 2006 with a collection of stories about the 2005 earthquake that killed 73,000 people in Kashmir and North West Frontier Province. "The comparisons are largely cosmetic," she said. (Guardian Unlimited)
Verity Lambert Nov 24, 2007
Later she produced 26 episodes in a collection of stories dramatised from the works of W Somerset Maugham; the series received the Society of Film and Television Arts award for the best drama series of 1969. Lambert then moved to London Weekend Television to produce the endearing street life series Budgie (1971-72). (Telegraph.co.uk)
Read it and weep, says Booker winner Oct 18, 2007
She left her job and began to write; first a well-received collection of stories called The Portable Virgin, then three novels and a non-fiction work, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, in 2004. This year's other judges were poet Wendy Cope, author and journalist Giles Foden, biographer and critic Ruth Scurr and actor Imogen Stubbs. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Dark horse wins Man Booker Prize Oct 18, 2007
Ms. Enright, who has written three other novels, a collection of stories and a work of non-fiction, emerged as the dark horse confounding both critics and bookies who had been rooting for Mr McEwan s On Chesil Beach, about the anxieties of a young couple on their wedding night; and Jones s Mister Pip, which uses Charles Dickens s Great Expectations to explore issues of clash of cultures, white supremacy, colonialism, and the power of literature. No tears, however, were shed for Mr. Sinha s... (Hindu)
Anne Enright takes the Booker Oct 17, 2007
She left her job and began to write; first a well-received collection of stories called The Portable Virgin, then three novels and a work of non-fiction, Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, published in 2004. Disappointed though he will doubtless be, Ian McEwan can at least take comfort from his incredibly healthy sales. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Front-loaded 'Tomorrow' founders at the finish Sep 10, 2007
In seven previous novels and a collection of stories, he has written with supple confidence and grace, preferring the large-hearted complexities of the inner life as his tableau. And certainly "Tomorrow" possesses the same level of skill and emotional depth in its narrative, a first-person soliloquy unfolding one night in 1995. (Boston Globe)
Black and white and all over? Aug 26, 2007
"He said a journalist had two suits, a reporter only one," Usher wrote in The Argus: Life & Death Of A Newspaper (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), a collection of stories about The Argus, a Melbourne morning newspaper published from 1846 until 1957. Thirty years later, when I was a junior reporter in New Zealand, I remember being told that one too. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
'Make yer point' Aug 11, 2007
This was payment for my first collection of stories. We were living in a room and kitchen in Garriochmill Road. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Last Night's TV Jul 27, 2007
Also last night, a wonderful collection of stories in Andy Wells s Queer as Old Folk on Channel 4. Alan and Jimmy, for example, were about to get married after 43 years together but had never kissed because Jimmy s mother had told him that s how you got diseases. (Times Online)
And The Nominees Are... Jun 19, 2007
So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune, but kept her violent and tragic past a secret. (WNBC.com, NY)
Visit the land of the 'queen' Jun 2, 2007
Other neighbourhoods worth checking out include the hip arts district of Hoxton, sleek and chic Chelsea, and the city's original gay ghetto situated around Earl's Court made famous by writer Armisted Maupin in his classic 'Tales of the City' collection of stories. Bargains and beaches. (iAfrica.com)
New Twists on Olde Tales Apr 27, 2007
What's certain is that the collection of stories can be transformed into great theater. That's what the Aquila Theatre Company has done. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
PROF DEFENDS 'RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH'... Mar 3, 2007
com Web site is a collection of stories, columns and poetry that provide ``battle dispatches, training materials and jihad videos to our brothers worldwide. . (The Drudge Report)
Tomie dePaola writes like a kid Jan 30, 2007
His newest book, "Christmas Remembered," is a collection of stories set in some of dePaola's favorite places. "I've had a lot of stories that have happened to me that involve things that grown-ups do. ... It may not interest children that much because they haven't had those experiences, but grown-ups can fill in the blanks.". (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Ian McEwan: Here's the twist Jan 22, 2007
His first collection of stories, First Love, Last Rites, was a smash hit, extravagantly praised by Al Alvarez and others, but their unflinching portrayal of incest, pregnant rats and pickled penises won him the soubriquet of "Ian Macabre". His private life was picturesque. (Independent)
Critic's Choices Jan 21, 2007
For his long-time audience, he released "Loafer's Glory," a collection of stories, poems and songs set to the accompaniment of Woody Guthrie. He also has released "El Capitan," and "All Used Up." His album, "The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips," received a Grammy nomination as best traditional folk album of 1997. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
The year's best fiction Nov 28, 2006
Deborah Eisenberg, sometimes called America's Alice Munro, offers a collection of stories marked by intelligence, memorable characters, and an absence of clich;s. (Reviewed ). (Christian Science Monitor)
More critics on their picks of 2006 Nov 26, 2006
Helen Simpson Alice Munro's The View from Castle Rock is a breathtaking collection of stories. The way she handles time is remarkable: in recent work she has been playing ducks and drakes with the decades, but here she does it with whole lifespans too, and centuries. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The mother of all stories Oct 23, 2006
This is Toibin's first collection of stories, but relationships between mothers and sons - or their absence - have been more or less central to each of his five novels ... The idea of a collection of stories came after he had written A Priest In The Family, a story in which the mother of a priest being tried for abuse "tried to smile in case he looked up". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Power to the people Oct 8, 2006
We published the magazine every fortnight, pulling together a disorganised collection of stories, reports, jokes and cartoons. Why was the Reading Festival such a disaster (The police. (Guardian Unlimited)
Book prize list spans centuries and species Aug 24, 2006
Yiyun Li, from Beijing, has won two literary awards and the Frank O'Connor international short story prize for her collection of stories A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Carrie Tiffany from Australia was shortlisted for this year's Orange prize for Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living. (Guardian Unlimited)
Literary prize keeps alive the spirit of Dylan Thomas Jul 22, 2006
from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday. By Louise Jury, Arts Correspondent. (Independent)
Bay Area Vista Apr 19, 2006
The Thong Also Rises is a collection of stories based on women's experiences while traveling. For more information: Visit online at. (NBC 11, CA)
Grenville wins Commonwealth Writers Prize Mar 17, 2006
The award for best first book was given to Guyana's Mark McWatt for a collection of stories exploring the changing character of his homeland. McWatt, who studied at the University of Toronto, told the crowd he was overwhelmed and having flashbacks of the day he had his first poem published in a small magazine in Guyana. (Globe and Mail)
Books From Blogs Vie For New Literary Prize Mar 14, 2006
Among the fiction finalists are a collection of stories called "Africa Fresh! New Voices from the First Continent" and "Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal" by Keith Thomson. Officials from the Booker Prize, which awards an annual 50,000 pounds ($86,970) prize to the best book of the year from British, Irish and Commonwealth writers, could not be reached to comment on the similarity of the prize names. (InformationWeek)
