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The Daily Heller: Thinking About Canons " PRINT Magazine
1+ day, 50+ min ago (595+ words) The Western "literary canon," or great books list, has long been debated and criticized by academics, and rightly so. While some great entries are obvious, subjectivity abounds. Now The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals, a…...
Local author publishes new story in "Chicken Soup" book
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (123+ words) Author Bill Clark of Jefferson City is featured in Chicken Soup for the Soulu2019s latest book, u201c Let Your Dreams and Premonitions Guide You. u201d Clarku2019s short story, u201c What I Saw of Heaven, u201d is among a collection of about 100 stories focused on using internal…...
Bridging Rural Realities And Human Emotions: A Review Of Chuninda Kahanian
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (159+ words) Chuninda Kahanian brings together Surinder Rampuri's powerful narratives on family, social change, and rural life through an evocative Hindi translation by Subhash Neerav. Surinder Rampuri's'Chuninda Kahanian'is an important collection of selected stories by the veteran Punjabi storyteller. The book has…...
From the Big Apple to Appalachia: a poet makes a home in southeast Ohio
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (213+ words) Bonnie Proudfoot was born a New Yorker: She worked as a taxi cab driver in college. But she moved to Central Appalachia in her 20s, first to a homestead in West Virginia and later to Athens, Ohio. Her new book of…...
Saul's Light honors legacy with new book
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (55+ words) WWLTV. com Saul's Light honors legacy with new book To stream WWL TV on your phone, you need the WWL TV app. Download the WWL TV app Next up in 5 Example video title will go here for this video Before…...
Freefalling In Delhi: Review of Karan Mahajan's 'The Complex"
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (113+ words) This bristling novel finds an eroding joint family in the capital competing for power and legitimacy through the 1980s and "90s The Chopra clan, a Delhi family, shadowed by the promise of its past, comes undone in The Complex Mahajan keeps shifting…...
Why Loneliness Has Become the Defining Theme of Literary Fiction in 2026
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (120+ words) (Picture Credit - Pinterest) Also Read: Why Readers in 2026 Are Choosing 150-Page Novellas Over 500-Page Epics The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Picture Credit - The Booker Prize) Why Now, and Why This Subject The wider data support this. A growing body…...
New short story by Nanaimo author focuses on an apocalyptic dream
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (384+ words) Published 2: 30 pm Tuesday, June 2, 2026 A close up of Michael Neednam's cover of the book We're Naked - A Rapture in Three Acts. (Submitted by Michael Neednam) A Nanaimo writer has penned a story about an apocalyptic dream that he had; with…...
Local author releases book
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (187+ words) HOOD RIVER " Local Eileen Garvin released her third novel, "Bumblebee Season," this April. Set in a fictionalized Hood River, it's "a heartwarming new story that returns to the vibrant world of beekeeping in a small Oregon town," according to the…...
Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (180+ words) On the Fiction Podcast, Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Fugitive," by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss "The Fugitive," by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was…...