My imagination makes me human
and makes me a fool;
it gives me all the world
and exiles me from it.--Ursula K. Le Guin
Union AvenueAn Urban Journal Exploring Place,
Purpose, Literature, Memory,
and This Time
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.--Ursula K. Le Guin |
Union Avenue An Urban Journal Exploring Place, Purpose, Literature, Memory, and This Time |
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NEW! PHOTOGRAPHY -- a new page devoted to Knoxville's literary haunts. Pictures will be added as I'm inspired. ************************************************ Literary News, Local and National: The novelist Marilynne Robinson won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Home. The British award, given annually for the best novel written by a woman in English, was presented to Ms. Robinson at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The novel, a follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 work, Gilead, won over other finalists that included Ellen Feldman’s Scottsboro, Samantha Hunt’s Invention of Everything Else and Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows. I have read Robinson's Housekeeping and Gilead and thought they were some of the most beautiful writing I've ever read. Robinson, in my opinion, is in the top tier of a handful of the best writers in America today. Francesca Kay was given the Orange Award for New Writers for her novel, An Equal Stillness. ************************************************* Kudos: The Knoxville Writers' Guild's eighth anthology, Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers, a collection of short stories, essays, memoirs, poems and photographs in some way related to, using Blake's metaphor, expansion and contraction, will debut at a launch party on October 2 at the Laural Theater in Knoxville. Jack Neely, Knoxville's local historian, has a new book on the colorful history of Market Square.  ************************************************* |
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Last Updated: Jan 15, 2009 | |