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Mailbox Monday – May 13, 2013
Alfred A. Knopf sent me a finished copy of My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain by Patricio Pron and translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem (May 2013). This is the author’s American debut (although his shorter works have been featured in Am from Caribousmom Read more »
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The power of the cartoonist's pen
The Art of Controversy Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power By Victor S. Navasky Alfred A. Knopf. 256 pp. $27.95 Reviewed by Jim Higgins Few people afflict the comfortable more savagely and effectively than political cartoonists. In The Art from Philadelphia Inquirer Read more »
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Knopf announces promotion of two editors
On Wednesday, Alfred A. Knopf chairman and editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta announced new appointments for two of his editorial colleagues, Robin Desser and Jordan Pavlin. Mehta appointed Desser as Vice President, Editorial Director of the Knopf and Pavlin as from New York Daily News Read more »
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Langston Hughes
LANGSTON HUGHES James Mercer Langston Hughes February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967 was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best k from OpPapers.com Read more »
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A novel about obsessive love, lies and video
"The Woman Upstairs" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Claire Messud Nora Eldridge is "the woman upstairs" in the title of Claire Messud's new novel - "the quiet woman at the end of the third-floor hallway," with tidy trash, a bright smile and dashed dreams of being from Miami Herald Read more »
