Literary Classics of The US

Reading the Russians ; Q & A; Elif Batuman's fresh look at a forbidding body of literature
The Boston Globe; 1/3/2010; 1260 words; ...and Giroux. For Batuman, the Russian classics are a prism through which we can examine...lives, whose close study might just lead us toward unlocking what she describes as...small the body of work was. The Russian literary tradition is quite short. There's some...

P D JAMES A killer at the Beeb Her books are filled with gruesome deeds - but few come close to the fearless attack she launched on the head of the BBC last week.
The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/3/2010; 1170 words; ...programme, Baroness James reminded us with shocking force of the...water. The use of metaphor was classic James. "God gives every bird...her rarity as a front-line literary conservative. The world of...in any previous era." The literary Left, naturally, finds this...

When being grammatically correct can miss the point
Belfast Telegraph; 12/29/2009; 837 words; I wonder how many of us woke up on Christmas morning...under the tree; one that allows us to read the complete works of...marking computer to various classic works of literature and rhetoric...is still to come. CAPTION: Literary lady -- Olivia Williams as...

Alcott's own story is full of drama
The Boston Globe; 12/28/2009; 722 words; ...little bit like an episode of "Masterpiece Classic." "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind...creations, director Nancy Porter gives us the story of a writer's interior world...also forced her to avoid stretching her literary muscles outside of young adult fiction...

Out of Africa - Billy and Bert's passion play... ; Billy Ivory's screen tribute to one of Notts' greatest sons set to be filmed far away from its Eastwood roots
Nottingham Evening Post; 12/28/2009; 1208 words; ...s a meeting of two Notts literary leading lights - Bert and Billy...Billy, as he's known to us Notts- dwellers) next project...Journey To Knock, as well as TV classics like A Thing Called Love and...inculcated in me was quite a literary one." He is a regular visitor...