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This Week’s Must Read: Malaysia Flight 370 and the World’s Attention

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NPR has highlighted Stewart’s novel Songs for the Missing in regard to the missing Malaysia Flight 370:

What happens when the systems, institutions, technology and networks we’ve put into place for our protection, fail us? Consigned to speculation, how do we deal with the unresolved? What if the scant information we are able to cobble together, only deepens the mystery, and compounds our unknowing? What lengths will we go to for the answers we must have?

These are just a few of the many questions that have arisen in the wake of the unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Stewart O’Nan’s brilliant 2008 novel, Songs for the Missing, though it features no ill-fated airliners, raises many of the same questions.

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University of North Carolina 2014 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

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Stewart will be visiting the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the 2014 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence.  Here’s his upcoming schedule.

2014 Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Reading
Thursday, February 27, 7:30 p.m.
Genome Sciences Building Auditorium

Film Screening of Snow Angels
Monday, February 24, 5:00pm
Varsity Theater on Franklin St
Discussion with Stewart O’Nan following screening

“Baseball: The Great American Story” Panel
Wednesday, February 26, 3:30pm
Hyde Hall
Panelists: Coach Mike Fox, Tar Heels baseball
Gabby Calvocoressi, poet and catcher emeritus
Stewart O’Nan, Faithful
Sam Stephenson, Bull City Summer

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Lobster in A Reader’s Book of Days

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From the Boston Globe:

A READER’S BOOK OF DAYS: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year

By Tom Nissley
Illustrated by Joanna Neborsky
Norton, 448 pp., $24.95

Believers in astrology will be put off by this book, because how could the zodiac really work if Thomas Mann and V. C. Andrews share a birthday (June 6)? Now, Edgar Allen Poe and Patricia Highsmith (Jan. 19) does make sense. One of those essential household objects, this book lists writers’ birthdays, death dates, and important events (such as the amputation of Arthur Rimbaud’s right leg on May 27). Even more tantalizingly, it combs through the literary landscape to highlight important fictional dates, from the Jan. 1 diary entry by Charlotte Haze in “Lolita” to Dec. 20, the date on which all of the action in Stewart O’Nan’s “Last Night at the Lobster” takes place. Terrifically fun.

Writers in Paradise 2013

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Stewart will be at Writers in Paradise (January 19-27, 2013).  Here’s the schedule:

Short Story I and II

These workshops will focus on the art of the short story, including complex characterization, apt language (diction, mood, tone, and imagery), appropriate and accurately rendered setting, structural integrity, thematic complexity, and point-of-view appropriate to the characters and the action.

Faculty: Andre Dubus III (I), Stewart O’Nan (II)

Writers’ Conference Evening Reading Series

Thursday, January 24
Stewart O’Nan and David Yoo

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