Ayelet Waldman, the California novelist whose books include “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits” and the Mommy Track mystery series, is an ardent Obama supporter and is encouraging lovers of literature to contribute to his campaign in exchange for a “mystery bag” of books.
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Snow Angels DVD Reviews
Beckinsale enjoys the complexity, intimacy of smaller film
Kate Beckinsale has starred in big-budget Hollywood movies, including Pearl Harbor and The Aviator, and fought monsters in such films as Underworld and Van Helsing. After all that, Snow Angels, out this week on DVD, was a nice departure, she said, allowing her to play an ordinary person in a small-budget drama.
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Author O’Nan Coming to Farmington
Novelist Stewart O’Nan’s “Songs for the Missing” is due in bookstores in less than two months, but it’s a 1998 work that is the focus of attention Monday in Farmington.
O’Nan plans to attend a Farmington Library event with a unique crowd – some adults in a book group who chose to read his “A World Away” together, and some students from the Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford who, as part of a yearlong symposium, are reading everything O’Nan has written.
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A Master Is Given His Due
Maxwell: Early Novels And Stories; Later Novels And Stories
(Library of America, two volumes, $35 each)
When William Maxwell died in 2000 at the age of 91, America lost one of its greatest writers. While widely loved within the literary world, he was not a celebrity, a marquee name on par with Salinger or Cheever or Updike, all three of whom Maxwell edited for the New Yorker. Now, with the release of the Library of America’s two- volume edition of his fiction, William Maxwell may finally take his place beside his more famous friends and contemporaries.
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9/23/08: Writers Reading for Twain (Hartford, CT)
Jon Clinch, whose debut novel, “Finn,” owes a literary debt to Mark Twain, has joined the effort to keep Twain’s house in Hartford open to the public. On Sept. 23, Clinch and 10 other writers, including Phillip Lopate and Stewart O’Nan, will give a reading to benefit the Mark Twain House and Museum.
The Works of Stewart O'Nan 