Fri November 14 2008
Nam Le has won this yearâs Â60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. It recognizes the best young writer in the English-speaking world with the goal of ...
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Nam Le has won this yearâs Â60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. It recognizes the best young writer in the English-speaking world with the goal of ensuring that the inspirational nature of
Dylanâs writing lives on. I met with Nam in Toronto recently at the IFOA. This is part two of a series of interviews conducted with three acclaimed short storywriters: Rebecca Rosenblum, Nam
Le, and Ann...
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Nam Le has won this yearâs Â60,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. It recognizes the best young writer in the English-speaking world with the goal of ensuring that the inspirational nature of
Dylanâs writing lives on. I met with Nam in Toronto recently at the IFOA. This is part two of a series of interviews conducted with three acclaimed short storywriters: Rebecca Rosenblum, Nam
Le, and Anne Enright. In each case we riff off those qualities which Flannery OâConnor thought best constituted a good short story. Iâve listed some of them here. Nam Le is author of The
Boat, a collection of âstories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a fishing village in Australia to a floundering vessel in
the South China Sea, in a masterful display of literary virtuosity and feeling.â We talk, among other things, about never condescending to the reader, the prose having to be smarter than its
author: tapping into things seen, but a just beyond their ken; gaps and allowing the reader to put their experiences into them; getting into the consciousness of characters; relinquishing ego; the
difficulty of writing short stories â and the greatness of those who can do it well; spring-boarding detail and gearing it for expansion; and affecting paradoxical senses of recognition, wonder
and redemption. For more interviews and book reviews www.nigelbeale.com Copyright  2008 by Nigel Beale. www.nigelbeale.com Please listen here:
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Tue November 11 2008
Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library, founded in 1946, is a not-for-profit organization for people interested in books and libraries. Its pur...
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Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library, founded in 1946, is a not-for-profit organization for people interested in books and libraries. Its purpose is to stimulate public interest in the
library, purchase library materials, and support other cultural and educational programs in Tompkins County. Each year since inception the Friends have held a book sale in Ithaca New York. It now
ranks amon...
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Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library, founded in 1946, is a not-for-profit organization for people interested in books and libraries. Its purpose is to stimulate public interest in the
library, purchase library materials, and support other cultural and educational programs in Tompkins County. Each year since inception the Friends have held a book sale in Ithaca New York. It now
ranks among the ten largest (250,000 to 300,000 books, CDs, records, etc. per year) in the United States. Beryl Barr is the currently in charge of the Book Sale. I talked with her recently, and asked
her to give listeners her top ten hints on how best to run a used book sale. Hereâs our conversation: For more interviews and book reviews www.nigelbeale.com Copyright  2008 by Nigel
Beale. www.nigelbeale.com
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