Professor Jerzy Peterkiewicz, who has died aged 91, was a novelist, poet and professor of Polish language and literature at London University from 1972 to 1979. He was also the editor and translator of the poetry of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II. He was born in Fabianki, in the district of Dobrzyn, north-central Poland. [...]
17
Dec
Author Norman Mailer, who penned ‘The Naked and the Dead,’ dead at age 84
Posted by admin Published in Book TourNEW YORK %26#8212; Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country’s literary conscience and provocateur with such books as “The Naked and the Dead” and “The Executioner’s Song” died Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. [...]
17
Dec
Author Norman Mailer, who penned ‘The Naked and the Dead,’ dead at age 84
Posted by admin Published in Romance NovelNEW YORK %26#8212; Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country’s literary conscience and provocateur with such books as “The Naked and the Dead” and “The Executioner’s Song” died Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. [...]
17
Dec
“Just Beyond the Clouds” by Karen Kingsbury (Center Streer, $14.99). A new novel by the bestselling Christian-fiction author, about a grieving widower who is reluctant to let his Down syndrome brother try living on his own. Kingsbury lives in Vancouver, Wash.
“Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for all Music Teachers” by Bonnie Blanchard with [...]
17
Dec
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. %26#8212; Zane never intended to surround herself in mystery and intrigue.
The author, whose steamy sex novels set among black professionals have propelled her onto The New York Times list of best sellers, says if she could do it over, she’d have chosen a less provocative pseudonym.
About a decade ago, she was in [...]
14
Dec
Michael Chabon
Gentlemen of the Road
224pp. Sceptre. %26pound;12.
978 0 340 95345 9
At the end of Gentlemen of the Road, after all the derring-do is derring-done,
and the dust has settled on the corpse-strewn plains of the Caucasus,
Michael Chabon has a quiet afterword with his readers, in which he confides
that, despite the book%26rsquo;s official title, he cannot help [...]
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