
Alice Munro's Man Booker International win boosted the profile of the short story form. --Alice Munro won the Man Booker International, Raymond Carver's widow published a revised edition of What We Talk About When We ...
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The very first thing the President did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that...
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Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novella, The Original of Laura, is being published despite the author's instructions that it be destroyed after his death.-"Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus...
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The greatest story ever told (as debated here) has been given a new leash of life by His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman. In a new project, Pullman has written an alternative Bible passage re-imagining the fate of Jesus Christ, who, it is written, was killed by the Romans (or not). Talkin...
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"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." James BranchLike what you're reading? Subscribe to The Pride and the Sorrow - publishing a novel by Matt Fullerty
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The Knight of New Orleans is the screenplay for the novel The Pride and the Sorrow!

The Knight of New Orleans
The Murderess and the Hangman is a novel about murder from both sides of the scaffold. Hangman and gentleman executioner William Marwood executes Kate Webster for murdering her landlady...
Marwood was a professional hangman, Webster a thief in love with her exectutioner. He was socially conscious, she a failed vaudevill...e actress impersonating her own victim. He was trying to help society, strange as it seems, by inventing the 'long drop' to humanely break necks. She was helping his little boy through robbery and killing. They were together and apart and always on opposing sides of the law. Then Webster must be hanged by Marwood for killing her landlady for a few pieces of furniture...
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