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Author: Michael Washburn

Bookmobiles
Politics 

Like a Rolling Tome

March 21, 2023March 23, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Bookmobiles, Margaret Atwood, Nikki Snyder, Ron DeSantis, The Bluest Eye, The Handmaid's Tale, Toni Morrison

A Florida bookseller hopes an old-fashioned bookmobile will help combat the growing tide of school censorship

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Dahl
FICTION Politics Young Adult 

Puffin Books Bowdlerizes Roald Dahl

February 20, 2023February 24, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexandra Nossel, Ashley Esqueda, Inclusive Minds, James and the Giant Peach, PEN, Philip Pullman, Puffin, Roald Dahl, Salman Rushdie

The despicable, dystopian story behind a publisher’s use of “Inclusion Ambassadors” to transform beloved children’s novels

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Kafka
CREATORS Writers 

Kafka Lives

February 15, 2023February 20, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Franz Kafka

A massive new collection of Franz Kafka’s diaries provides fresh insight into his visionary work

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Paul Johnson
NON-FICTION Remembrance Writers 

The World of Paul Johnson

February 1, 2023February 6, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Paul Johnson, The Birth of the Modern

The late historian didn’t have a lot of friends on the left, but his popular histories help explain the present day

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Roald Dahl
Biography NON-FICTION 

The Real Dahl

January 25, 2023January 30, 2023 Michael Washburn 2 Comments Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Matthew Dennison, Patricia Neal, Roald Dahl, Teller of the Unexpected, You Only Live Twice

New biography offers an unvarnished account of an author’s troubled life

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Charles Simic
CREATORS Poetry Remembrance Writers 

Charles Simic, Among The Stars

January 11, 2023January 16, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Charles Simic

A tribute to the poet laureate, who has died at age 84

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CREATORS Remembrance Writers 

Russell Banks, RIP

January 9, 2023January 12, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Affliction, Continental Drift, Pulp Fiction, Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter

The U.S. has lost its leading storyteller of blue-collar despair

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Enzensberger
CREATORS Remembrance Writers 

Why Enzensberger Matters

January 3, 2023January 4, 2023 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Germany’s greatest postwar intellectual rejected labels and opposed tyranny in all forms

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DeLillo
FICTION 

DeLillo Predicts the News

December 22, 2022December 27, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Don DeLillo, Libra, Midnight in Dostoyevsky, Shinzo Abe, The Names, White Noise

A novelist attuned to perennial cycles of history, tragedy, and farce joins the Library of America

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Literary Prizes
CREATORS Writers 

Do We Need Literary Prizes?

December 14, 2022December 22, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation, Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Haruki Murakami’s thought-provoking new essay collection says the unsayable

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Houellebecq
FICTION 

Houellebecq Will Never Win The Nobel Prize

November 22, 2022November 30, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux, Annihilate, Guy de Maupassant, Michel Houellebecq, Submission

The wrong messenger, and the wrong message

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Good Nurse
FILM TELEVISION 

Who Enabled ‘The Good Nurse’?

November 2, 2022November 8, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Charles Graeber, Dr. Oz, Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chastain, The Good Nurse

Dark, gripping Netflix thriller could have been a little harder on medical bureaucrats

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Bradbury
FICTION 

The Long Shadow of Ray Bradbury

October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Library of America, Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man, The October Country

A prophetic writer’s stature grows with a new Library of America edition

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Ernaux
FICTION 

Annie Ernaux Ascends

October 12, 2022October 14, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Annie Ernaux, L'Occupacion, Passion Simple, Salman Rushdie, Stephen King

Nobel committee bestows its literary award on an introspective French author

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Mantel
FICTION 

Hilary Mantel and the Living Past

October 5, 2022October 10, 2022 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Henry James, Hilary Mantel, Learning To Talk, The Mirror and the Light, Wolf Hall

The late historical novelist, who brought Tudor England alive, falls victim to distortions

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
CREATORS Featured Stories FICTION TELEVISION Writers 

Macondon’t

March 22, 2023March 23, 2023 Dr. Carlos Flores 0

Ready or not, here comes the “magical” Netflix adaption of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

Shazam!
Featured Stories FILM 

The Shazam! Family is All Foster Families

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 Kristin Finan 0
The Mandalorian
Featured Stories TELEVISION 

‘The Mandalorian’ Gets Biblical in Season 3

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Featured Stories TELEVISION 

What Price ‘Glory’?

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