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Articles by Andre Dubus
Fall 2001
Thirtieth Anniversary Issue The Fall 2001 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Donald Hall. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This double issue, guest-edited by poet Donald Hall, marks the 30th anniversary of Ploughshares.
Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, August 11, 2023
This week, we review some standout fiction, including James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, "a mesmerizing work" that opens in 1972, when construction workers in Pottstown, Pa., find a skeleton at the bottom of a well; Prophet, Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché's "tightly paced, genre-bending tale" that imagines the weaponization of nostalgia; Diane Williams's collection of flash fiction, I Hear You're Rich, with its "witty, bare-bones, and remarkably intricate glimpses into the...
LXII. Terence, this is stupid stuff. Housman, A. E. 1896. A Shropshire Lad
‘TERENCE, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well, the horned head: We poor lads, ’tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
Five Indelible Short Story Collections
Peter Orner’s Maggie Brown & Others is published this month. He shares five indelible short story collections. Collected Stories by Isaac Babel (either McDuff, Morrison, or Dralyuk translations) I don’t get on a plane without a copy of Isaac Babel’s stories. If it goes down, I’ll go down reading Babel. This will date me, but there’s an old Crash Test Dummies song that goes something like If I die in a car wreck/ may I have Van Morrison on my tape deck. This is how I feel about my Russian kinsman.
THE CROSS COUNTRY RUNNER
Third volume in the Godine series reissuing the short stories and novellas of Dubus (1936-1999). Originally published in 1984 and 1986, the volumes that underlie this collection represent Dubus at perhaps the apex of his career. The stories and novellas gathered here are often topical and even everyday; many of them speak to Dubus’ preoccupations, including racism and the military life.
The Blackberry Patch
After his lunch in the student lounge David Wallace read the front page of the morning newspaper, then turned to the second page and saw the story. He read it, at first appalled, then thinking that he had to go home and be with Marian. He had told the paper boy not to deliver the paper for a month and, as he had hoped, Marian apparently did not miss it; if she did, she said nothing.
THE WINTER FATHER
Second of a two-volume collection of short fiction by Dubus (Broken Vessels, 1991, etc.), gathering the previous volumes Finding a Girl in America (1980) and The Times Are Never So Bad (1983).
WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
First of a two-volume collection of short fiction by Dubus (Dancing After Hours, 1996, etc.), a Chekhov-ian laureate of silences and secrets.
The Lamp Post | Local News | hgazette.com
Anyone who has been to the new Hunking School will agree it's a gem of a building.The building is so attractive that it's becoming the host location of big events.When the first inductees to the new Haverhill High Sports Hall of Fame were named recently, it was also announced that a ceremony in their honor will be held at the new Hunking. And when Mayor James Fiorentini was planning this year's State of the City Address, he chose Hunking for the venue of his speech.
WITNESS - The New Yorker
PERSONAL HISTORY about meeting a woman who witnessed the author's crippling automobile accident ten years ago. It is fall 1996, and he is in a wheelchair. Every Thursday, he drives thirty minutes to Andover and picks up his daughters Cadence and Madeleine, fourteen and nine, from school. He takes them to their house to walk the dog, then to his house for dinner (cooked by a woman he pays), then back to their house, and hosts a writers' workshop at his house.
Reading As Meditation: 5 Works Of Fiction To Calm Your Senses
Written by Bibi Deitz Our editors have independently chosen the products listed on this page. If you purchase something mentioned in this article, we may earn a small commission. February 24, 2015 You don't have to read a self-help book for serenity. Fiction fires our imagination, but it also can afford a sense of contentedness and wonder on par with the best yoga classes and most inspiring meditations.
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