Catch a conversation with Pulitzer winner Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey, with Robin Young of NPR’s Here and Now. Listen as they catch up with Enrique’s continuing struggle to bring his family together in the United States and discuss the many difficulties facing the children pouring into America to reunite with their parents. To listen to Sonia’s interview click HERE.
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Lisa Genova author of, Still Alice, recently blogged about how the human brain expresses/suppresses emotions. From an early age we’re socialized to hold back what we feel and act according to societal standards. When the brain is attacked, by a disease such as Alzheimer’s, those pathways that prevent emotional expression are destroyed; therefore, the people with Alzheimer’s seem to develop atypical characteristics.
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Christina Baker Kline’s novel, Orphan Train, is popular with classrooms and communities because of the multiple themes for discussion. Orphan Train, is about the unlikely connection between a 17-year-old Penobscot Indian, Molly, and the 91-year-old widow, Vivian, she helps with a community service project. While they get to know each other, their parallel stories are revealed.
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Mardi Jo Link recently wrote an essay on her experiences and life lessons. She describes the need for both people and nature to find their own level. Life doesn’t always work the way you expect it to, but yet it always seems to find a balance. Mardi Jo Link’s essay explains, the parallels she found in her own life with love, and the efforts of man to tame the waterways near her home.
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Ivan Doig recently visited Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. He read from his book and answered questions to an audience of 350 people. “It was great to have the Doigs here. They are lovely. Ivan gave a strong talk about craft, and was generous with questions after. … The discussion about process was also very interesting and powerful, and many people have commented to me since that they enjoyed this presentation.” – Katrina Roberts, Whitman College Visiting Writers Series
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On Saturday, Karen Joy Fowler accepted the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Prize for, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. The award recognizes the best fiction published by an American author in the previous year.
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Indian rickshaws are used to help safely transport children and goods from one place to another. Because of their dependability and flexibility, rickshaws are still popular in modern India. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of, One Amazing Thing and Oleander Girl, explains the significant part the rickshaw plays in Indian cities in her recent essay.
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Emma Donoghue’s latest novel, Frog Music, has been garnering a lot of news and rave reviews of late. In recent interviews Emma Donoghue explains how she develops her stories both creatively and with research.
Read More »Karen Joy Fowler recently discussed, We are all Completely Beside Ourselves, with The National. Her novel, which just won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, is an idea she has been working on since the millennium. She explained how her writing, although fiction, has basis in situations she has experienced. In, We are all Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler draws on her childhood in the rat labs where her dad, an animal behaviorist, studied rat learning processes.
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Neighbor To Neighbor recently started the Still Alice Project using a grant to purchase multiple copies of Lisa Genova’s novel, Still Alice. They plan to use the book to open discussions on Alzheimer’s and help refer people to additional resources available.
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