David Bergen - Literary Fiction
David Bergen was first brought to my attention during the 2005 Scotia Bank Giller Prize award for best fiction which he ultimately won (and now he is nominated again this year). The Giller was not the first writing award he won. All of his novels ... [... more]
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David Gilmour - Literary Fiction
That's the comment that stood out for me when I watched David Gilmour in a interview for a Canadian television series for writers called Writer's Confessions. For someone as successful as Gilmour to admit he writes crap really takes the pressure ... [... more]
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Cormac McCarthy - Literary Fiction
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten novels. Some of his works include: All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), Cities of the Plain (1998), No Country for Old Men (2005), and The Road (2006). He won the National Book Award for All the ... [... more]
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Mary Shelley - In Brief - Literary Fiction
Mary Shelley is the British author behind the 1818 novel, Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus), about a scientist with insane notions of building a man from leftover human body parts. It's a novel written by a woman ahead of her time. It asks the ... [... more]
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Literary Festivals - Literary Fiction
With the warmer weather seems to come the advent of literary festivals. But just what are they and why do people attend them. Literary festivals are like any other festivals really. It's a group of people who get together to celebrate similar ... [... more]
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Lost in Austen Review - Literary Fiction
This past weekend I had the opportunity to participate in an Austen Fest (a lot of Austen movie viewing). One of the items on the list was a television mini-series written by Guy Andrews and airing on the Women's Network. Lost in Austen is the ... [... more]
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Literal Latte Literary Magazine - Literary Fiction
The paper version of the Literal Latte debuted back in June 1994 in the literary mecca of New York City. They printed their last print publication in July 2003 but have continued the online entity they started November 1996 ever since. The ... [... more]
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The Awakening Review - Literary Fiction
This novella by Kate Chopin was first published in 1899. It "aroused a storm of controversy for its then-unprecedented treatment of female independence and sexuality, and for its unromantic portrayal of marriage". It takes place in New Orleans . [... more]
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Doris Lessing - Literary Fiction
In 2007 Doris Lessing won the well deserved Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel Prize doesn't look at one piece of fiction but a life's work and its affect on society. The eighty-nine year old (October 22, 1919) woman has dedicated her life to ... [... more]
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Earnings from Deceased Writers - Literary Fiction
According to Wikipedia "the default length of copyright is the life of the author plus either 50 or 70 years" depending where in the world you live. But what exactly happens to the proceeds made from literary works after the author has died? In [... more]
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Teresa Dovalpage
After twenty-nine years in Cuba Havana, Teresa de la Caridad Dovalpage lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she is a Ph.D. student and Spanish instructor at the University of New Mexico. She has been writing since she was fourteen often keeping ... [... more]
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Golda Fried - Author Interview - Literary Fiction
Nellcott Is My Darling is Golda's second book and a finalist for the 2005 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Her first was a collection of short stories titled Darkness Then a Blown Kiss. This poet / author grew up in Toronto, studied ... [... more]
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