“Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” the 1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, is one of the supreme works of world literature, though not the easiest thing to turn into an effective play Novel-Prize. That Christopher Hampton achieved this was not clear to me 20 years ago. The current New York revival, starring Laura Linney and [...]
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May
Fiendish Linney Lures Mate Into Dangerous Liaisons John Simon
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Apr
A true-life crime led author Dara Horn to begin writing “The World to Come,†the choice for this year’s A Novel Idea … Read Together, the Deschutes Public Library System’s annual community reading event.
Events kick off today with a performance of excerpts from “Fiddler on the Roof†from the Obsidian Opera Company’s 2007 production of [...]
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Mar
Miscarriage of Justice is based on the actual events surrounding a 1913’s love triangle gone horribly and irrevocably wrong. Kip Gayden has delivered an impressive novel that is as exciting as the crime and verdict were shocking.
Anna and Walter Dotson were prominent members of the small Tennessee community of Gallatin. Walter, in addition to being [...]
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Dec
What you thought about. . . The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
Posted by admin Published in Online NovelAward-winning novels come under much more scrutiny from book clubs. Your
overall verdict on The Tenderness of Wolves was that it was worthy of a
first-novel prize, but perhaps not quite accomplished enough to be crowned
the Costa Book of the Year.
It is not perfect. I agree with Gill Vaughan that the bone tablet in the story
should not [...]
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