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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Unreleased Kafka Materials May See Light

Israeli women under pressure to share inherited documents

Aug 18, 08 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Franz Kafka, who died in 1924, is in the news because of the actions of his disobedient literary executor. Max Brod, who fled Prague in 1939, left a valuable collection of the Czech existentialist's papers with his secretary. She died last year at 101, and her daughters may be keeping... More »

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Israel • writer • novel • Franz Kafka • Hava Hoffe • Max Brod • Esther Hoffe

OPINION

 Aspiring Novelist? Read This

Fiction writer offers tips on juggling creativity, career

Aug 11, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - “I’ve always wanted to write” is something novelist Allegra Goodman hears a lot, so she lays out some advice in the Boston Globe for the doctors, venture capitalists, and lactation consultants with stories to tell:
  • “To begin, don’t write about yourself.” Writing is about
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literature • creative writing • novelist • writer • novel

OBITUARY

 Palestinian Poet Dead at 67

'Poet of resistance' depicted life under Israelis, supported and slammed PLO

Aug 10, 08 7:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died yesterday from heart surgery complications in Houston at age 67, the Los Angeles Times reports. Considered Palestine’s unofficial poet laureate, Darwish penned the territory’s symbolic Declaration of Independence in 1988 and depicted life under Israeli rule in his work. "He was... More »

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Palestine • obituary • poet laureate • writer • Mahmoud Darwish • PLO

Opinion

Conservative Artists Should Stand Tall

They can't 'battle this state of affairs with silence' in Hollywood

Aug 9, 08 5:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - There are conservatives in Hollywood, writes Andrew Klavan in the Washington Post. Unfortunately, they are all tip-toeing and cowering, afraid of being dismissed by liberals who run the town—and it’s time that stopped. Liberal values pervade TV and movies, and not just in message films. It is... More »

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media • Hollywood • film • writer • movies • conservatives • culture wars

OPINION

 Du Maurier:
 Neglected Genius? 

Author of Rebecca was more than pop-lit hack

Aug 2, 08 7:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Novelist Daphne du Maurier’s works have been read by millions, adapted into films, and kept in print for decades—yet she has been unable to shake her reputation as a pop-lit hack. Cynthia Crossen looks at her career in the Wall Street Journal and argues that the author of... More »

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literature • writer • hack • book • Daphne du Maurier

'Realish' Sedaris Book Skirts Memoir Scrutiny

Genre 'the last place you’d expect to find the truth,' humorist says

Jun 8, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - With his new book of nonfiction essays, Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris finds himself engulfed in questions of truth and accuracy. In America, the recent explosion of memoirs has been followed with one scandal after another, prompting more scrutiny of the humorist’s work. “I do think Sedaris exaggerates... More »

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literature • humor • memoir • writer • book • fake memoirs • nonfiction books • David Sedaris

Graphic Bod Novel Jars Germany

Female author delves way deep into sex
and femininity

Jun 6, 08 4:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - A highly explicit novel that explores every body crevice of its teenage female narrator has scandalized Germany—and topped bestseller lists, the New York Times reports. The controversial novel, which mixes the anatomical and scatological with the erotic, is a feminist statement challenging a world that expects women to be... More »

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feminism • Germany • hygiene • sexuality • author • German • writer

Striking Writers Enlist Kids

Writers use Veterans Day to teach kids and garner attention

Nov 12, 07 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Striking scribes took advantage of Veterans Day to bring their kids to picket lines in Los Angeles today, the AP reports. The move garnered attention and gave parents a chance to tutor youngsters in payments and residuals. "It's a little rude for the producers to take so much and... More »

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Hollywood • Disney • writer • film studio • Writers Guild of America • Hollywood writers' strike • Veterans Day

Literary Bull Blundered
and Thrived

Time and Salon critics recall brilliant, failed, iconic Mailer

Nov 10, 07 7:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Egotist, chauvinist, brawler, Mailer battled "a culture subsiding into room temperature," Time says. His work vented "his own inner conditions" as he lurched from fame at age 25 to so-so books to his "brilliant" Armies of the Night in 1968. He made big gaffes—blaming patients... More »

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obituary • literature • writer • Norman Mailer • 1960s

How Will TV Writers Work if TV is Dead?

Writer negotiations overshadowed by an Internet dominated future

Nov 1, 07 10:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - TV writers could walk out any day now, leaving late night TV and topical shows like The Daily Show in the lurch, and one of the sticking points in their talks with entertainment producers is their demand for a larger slice of DVD and online video revenue. But as Saul... More »

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television • Internet • DVD • online videos • Jon Stewart • writer • Producer • Late Night

Scribe Says Bye to Cool Tabloid

Fell in love with 'parallel universe' of funny stories

Aug 25, 07 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gone is the tabloid that claimed "February Sues for More Days" and "Hide-and-Seek Player Found After 34 Years," but what becomes of its writers? At least one is still missing his calling as an inventor of comedy-news. In Salon, Stan Sinberg recalls how he conceived tall tales... More »

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newspaper • news • tabloids • Weekly World News • writer

Writer Grace Paley Dies at 84

'Neurotically Anti-Authoritarian' Activist and Author Gave Voice to Women of Native Bronx

Aug 23, 07 6:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Acclaimed writer and activist Grace Paley, who in only three collections of short stories gave earthy voice to the interior life of the Bronx Everywoman, died yesterday at age 84 in her Vermont home, the Los Angeles Times reports. Paley—whose sensibility admirer Philip Roth called "splendidly comic... More »

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breast cancer • feminism • obituary • literature • writer • Grace Paley • Rea Award • activist • Iraq war

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