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Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.

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  • Legendary Barron's Columnist Alan Abelson Dies At 87

    News Source: BusinessInsider | 16 days ago
    Veteran Barron's columnist  Alan Abelson has died at 87. Alan wrote one of the most-read columns in the financial world for almost 50 years. Barron's editor Ed Finn just published the following note about Alan , which Barron's was kind enough to give
  • The Jeff Tweedy Interview

    News Source: Wellington Dominion | 1 month ago
    He's been at it with that band for some 20 years now; before that it was as a member of Uncle Tupelo (Wilco was formed from its ashes) and Tweedy has also, sporadically, flirted with a solo career. He's released film soundtracks and toured as a solo
  • Jamaica Kincaid's latest a startling close-up portrait of a marriage

    News Source: The Globe & Mail | 4 months ago
    Jamaica Kincaid is one of the most distinct and revelatory American voices of the past 30 years, exploring not only her Caribbean childhood and background with lyrical honesty, in Annie John and The Autobiography of My Mother , but also her love of
  • Theater events: Fox Valley Rep opens with comedy whodunit

    News Source: The Daily Herald | 4 months ago
    Jeeves and Bertie return Jim McCance, Christian Gray and Kevin McKillip reprise their roles as the taciturn gentleman's gentleman Jeeves, his hapless upper-crust employer Bertie and Bertie's best pal Binky in First Folio Theatre's "Jeeves Takes a Bow,
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author to speak in Arlington Heights

    News Source: The Daily Herald | 4 months ago
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Smiley takes the stage at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre for the second in a series of author events generously funded by the Friends of the Library. Smiley is the author of the best-seller "A Thousand Acres," a story
  • Maggie Shipstead wins Dylan Thomas prize

    News Source: The Guardian | 6 months ago
    Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Set on a fictional island off New England, Seating Arrangements skewers the pretensions of local society as patriarch Winn Van Meter prepares for his daughter's wedding. Judge and novelist Allison Pearson compared Shipstead
  • Memoir explores tough issue of ending a beloved pet's life

    News Source: The Globe & Mail | 7 months ago
    Your dog is deaf and blind, and he falls over frequently, seeming to not have much control of his hind end; 4. Your dog is deaf and blind, has lost control of his hind end, and barks endlessly, often at night; 5. Your dog is deaf and blind, has lost
  • ‘The Forgetting Tree,' by Tatjana Soli

    News Source: The New York Times | 8 months ago
    September 14, 2012 In her ambitious and much admired 2010 novel The Lotus Eaters (which won the James Tait Black Prize, one of the most prestigious in Britain), Tatjana Soli explored the experiences of a female war photographer who spent nearly a


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