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2 days ago · Dune is a 1965 science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger Zelazny 's This Immortal for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966.
1 day ago · Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday.
4 days ago · Booklist celebrates Eloisa for “first creating a uniquely appealing pair of protagonists (including a heroine who is not about to let not being able to read or write hold her back) and then setting them loose in a wit-infused plot enhanced by a wildly entertaining cast of secondary characters.”.
2 days ago · The Locarno Film Festival has set Alpine elegy movie “Fiore Mio” (“A Flower of Mine”) as its pre-opening event. It marks the first film written and directed by bestselling Italian novelist Paolo Cognetti (“The Eight Mountains”), who also stars. Besides writing “Eight Mountains,” Cognetti was also “on set” when Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and …
6 days ago · New Novel – New Genre – James S. Peet, Author, novelist, and all around good guy! While working on Reset (the second in the Hayek Chronicles series), I went out and watched the movie Civil War (the one with Kirsten Dunst and Nick Offerman). If you haven’t seen it, it’s quite disturbing.
2 days ago · A Gathering of the Tribes and ARS Poetica will present “ James Baldwin’s 100 th Birthday Slam ” in the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery, 800 G St. NW. Free registration is available on Eventbrite. Later next month — on Thursday, Aug. 22, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. — the Portrait Gallery’s Big Ideas Book Club invites ...
2 days ago · The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis is proud to present the return of the Steve Woolf Studio Series – Adventurous Theatre for Adventurous Theateregoers for the 2024/25 Season in the Emerson Studio of the Loretto-Hilton Center on the campus of Webster University. The two play series features a wickedly funny comedy,
