By Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune
In the middle of winter, people start craving color. Here are 10 books to remind us that eventually our landscape will be filled with color again. Reading the rainbow
Published in 1850, the novel is set in Puritan America.
Itâs the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a child out of wedlock and is forced to wear the scarlet âAâ for adultery on her clothing.
âA Study in Scarletâ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The first Sherlock Holmes novel.
Originally published in 1887, the mystery revolves around the discovery of a corpse in a London house with the word âRacheâ scrawled in blood nearby.
Poet and College of the Holy Cross associate professor Oliver de la Paz of Holden has been named by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of 35 writers who will receive an FY 2021 Creative Writing Fellowship of $25,000.
He was selected from 1,601 eligible applicants. It feels good and it s especially timely given the current situation, de la Paz said Thursday.
The National Endowment for the Arts Winter Award announcement also includes $95,000 to the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester for research in the arts, and $10,000 to Music Worcester Inc. in grants for arts projects.
This year’s National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowships are in poetry and are intended to enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.
My Year Abroad, about an American collegian’s adventures across Asia
and in witness protection in New Jersey. Lee, a creative writing professor at Stanford University, also wrote
The Surrendered(2011), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His
On Such a Full Sea (2014) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and his debut
Native Speaker (1995) won the PEN/Hemingway award.
The Seoul-born, Westchester, N.Y.-raised Lee can’t seem to shake his history as a Wall Street equities analyst a job he quit after exactly 365 days (he went to the recruitment on campus for the free Scotch and raw bar) but he was also the restaurant critic for free downtown newspaper
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