...so much — is just one intriguing thread of Rhodes’ fascinating narrative. The Man Who Invented the Computer Jane Smiley Doubleday, 246 pp. $25.95 Who really was the father of the machine we’ve come to call the computer? Was it Alan Turing, the...
...000 from Amazon.com that is being used to pay contributing editors and writers, including T.C. Boyle, Jane Smiley and Jonathan Lethem. The site includes book reviews, essays, an online discussion forum, audio and video of author interviews and events and...
...of Books: Past, Present, and Future" -- featured several writers ruminating on the books that haunt them. Novelist Jane Smiley testified to how reading Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" -- "each word impressing itself upon me, then dissipating into the whole,...
...every word of Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove,” a winner in l986, learning the wrenching family secret in Jane Smiley’s “A Thousand Acres,” (1992), reading the poetry of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies,” (2000) and connecting...
...Chua 2. "Finally a Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis …'' • Amanda Doyle 3. "Charles Dickens'' • Jane Smiley 4. "The Peach Keeper'' • Sarah Addison Allen 5. "For Colored Girls …'' • Ntozake Shange 6. "The Power of Principled Politics"...
...Knopf, Swamplandia!'s publisher, said: "It's a prize that can change the career trajectory of a writer." Jane Smiley, 1992 Pulitzer winner for A Thousand Acres, sent an email to Associated Press saying: "I can’t believe there wasn’t a worthy one....
...or not given." Many greeted news about the fiction category as an unpleasant surprise. "No fiction prize!" Jane Smiley, a Pulitzer winner in 1992 for A Thousand Acres, wrote on her Facebook page. "Not even to (Geraldine Brooks') Caleb's Crossing! I did...
...haven't seen Opium founder Todd Zuninga's LDM series, it's worth the $10. Featuring face-offs by Jane Smiley (yes, the Jane Smiley), Roxanne Gay of PANK and everywhere else in the literary world, Major Jackson, and Darin Strauss. Clink the link for...
...place to stick it. On the other end, there’s the album-closing behemoth, “One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend),” a heartbreaking tale dealing in religion, paternal pressure and death. Sure, it’s an exceptional track, but...
...and more with 30 of our classmates and teachers at the Workshop back in the mid-70s, among them Jane Smiley, John Irving, T. C. Boyle, and Sandra Cisneros. If there’s a common theme running through the book, it’s that creativity is a process and...
...and more with 30 of our classmates and teachers at the Workshop back in the mid-70s, among them Jane Smiley, John Irving, T. C. Boyle, and Sandra Cisneros. If there's a common theme running through the book, it's that creativity is a process and that...
...and more with 30 of our classmates and teachers at the Workshop back in the mid-70s, among them Jane Smiley, John Irving, T. C. Boyle, and Sandra Cisneros. If there's a common theme running through the book, it's that creativity is a process and that...
...fun. Listen each Sunday afternoon for the WordSmitten "About the Books" broadcast. Recent guests include Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Jane Smiley, Elizabeth Strout, and Edward P. Jones. Debut novelists Leslie Daniels (Cleaning Nabokovs House), Maggie...
...cellphone from God,” Zuniga said. “He judged through these conversations with God.” Other celebrity participants have included writers Jane Smiley and Richard Russo and Mary Lynn Rajskub, who played Chloe O’Brian on the TV series “24.” Zuniga...