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Praying With Confidence for Their Conversion---Allen M. Baker

Pearl S. Buck, the great novelist, who won the Pulitzer prize in 1932 and the Nobel prize for literature in 1938, grew up on the mission field. In her memoirs, she took up the question, "Do we ne...
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  • hcesquivel8903 published this 08/30/2009
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A Story From Pulitzer Prizewinning Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and i...
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  • RHPG published this 08/28/2009
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JANICE DAUGHARTY'S New Novel: The Little Known

Win a free copy this fall! Sneak Preview of acclaimed author and Pulitzer Nominee JANICE DAUGHARTY'S new novel, THE LITTLE KNOWN, coming in Feb. 2010 from Bell Bridge Books. For a chance at a free ...
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  • bellebooks published this 08/09/2009
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Winner of the Vital Economics Book Prize 2008-2012; GovernorsLibrary.org Press Release July 4, 2009

Commentary / announcement / citation about exemplary authorship and scholarship. The fifth 2008-2012 Vital Literary Prize (*) was announced effective July 4, 2009. The GovernorsLibrary.org pres...
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  • GovernorsLibrary.org published this 07/27/2009
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Is literary critique counter productive?

Feel free to critique my critique of critique.
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  • Benjamin Russack published this 05/22/2009
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JohnMcConnicoInterview

And the picture wasn’t taken by a Moldovan, of course, but by a guy called John McConnico. Who’s this guy? Google answered. Pulitzer prize winner, worked mainly for AP in 70+ countries, covered con...
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  • IonGrosu published this 02/22/2009
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The Girl Who Raised Pidgeons

Life for Betsy Ann Morgan, “…the girl who raised pigeons,” is difficult without a mother. Betsy Ann’s mother, Clara, died of a brain tumor “…her [Betsy Ann’s] father…came to believe …had been grow...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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An Otherwise Unremarkable Day

Psychologists say that ninety percent of what one learns is incidental. The events in Edward P. Jones’s short story, “The First Day,” a first person narrative in his collection, Lost in the City, ...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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Young Lions

Edward P. Jones’ Young Lions opens with twenty-four-year old Caesar Matthews reading a note from his girlfriend, Carol, with whom he lives. Carol’s note, taped to a carton of milk in the refrigera...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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Lost Opporunities on the Orange Line Train to Ballston

Edward P. Jones’, An Orange Line Train to Ballston, is about lost opportunities, how they come to pass and what occurs when one abandons possibilities, or more importantly how we can react in havin...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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The Sunday Following Mother's Day

Edward P. Jones’, The Sunday Following Mother’s Day, chronicles Madeleine William’s search for the reason, or rather the man who killed her mother.
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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Transformation on 'F' Street

Edward P. Jones’s story, A Butterfly on ‘F’ Street is about transformation—a change that occurs between two women that love the same man, now deceased. Jones uses metaphor and setting to emphasize...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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Lost in the World of Edward P Jones

Edward P. Jones’s namesake story “Lost in the City,” in his collection of short stories, Lost in the City, could aptly be titled, "Lost in America." Set in our nation's capital, Washington, D. C.,...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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Transformation of Father Into a New Man

Edward P. Jones’ A New Man displays the transformation of a man whose daughter runs away from home and does not return.
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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Requiem on a Dark Night

In Edward P. Jones’ A Dark Night the not so apparent protagonist, Ida Garrett, arrives at the apartment of her neighbor, Carmena Boone, and finds another neighbor, Beatrice Atwell for whom she has ...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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Life, Death, and Time in Edward P Jones' The Known World

What interested me most about The Known World was how Jones maintained a sense of tension between time on both the profane and celestial levels through his deceased protagonist Henry Townsend and t...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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Moses--A Man of Many Emotions

“The evening his master died he worked again well after he ended the day for the other adults, his own wife among them, and sent them back with hunger and tiredness to their cabins… When he, Moses,...
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The Sanity of Madness in Edward P Jones' The Known World

“In those first days after Henry bought Alice, the patrollers would haul her back to Henry’s plantation, waking him and Caldonia …Come down here and find out about your property’...Henry would come...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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The Freedom of Caldonia and Moses

In Edward P. Jones’ The Known World the relationship between Caldonia Townsend, the wife and widow of Henry Townsend, and Henry’s overseer, Moses, symbolizes the psychological fallout that occurs...
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  • neptuneauteur published this 02/14/2008
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