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Four-time novelist Calvin Baker felt driven to convey an urgent message in no uncertain, i.e., nonfictional, terms: that only with full integration can…
Ann Kjellberg
Oct 25
How fortunate that fiction allows us to attend parties that in life we probably would have avoided. David Leavitt’s novel  features many highly animate…
Ann Kjellberg
Oct 23 2
If Picasso had also contracted the flu along with his friend, much of the art world we know today might not have come to pass. 
Ann Kjellberg
Oct 19 2
When French poet Guillaume Apollinaire died of the Spanish flu in 1918, the person most affected by his loss was his friend Picasso 
Ann Kjellberg
Oct 17
In 2008, I flew to Alaska to meet the composer John Luther Adams, who was then living in an airy house on the outskirts of Fairbanks. I had recently co…
Ann Kjellberg
Oct 13 1
Finally, 2020 got something right. On October 8, Louise Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. 
Ann Kjellberg
Oct 8
Some of our most enduring writers—Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne—set pivotal scenes in some of their greatest works on Ele…
Ann Kjellberg
Sep 30 1
The transition from Stone’s early, troubled years to those of the acclaimed author whose face graces the covers of both of these books is, despite hims…
Ann Kjellberg
Sep 24
During his lifetime, Robert Stone was revered as an ambitious, prolific novelist whose hard-edged, unsentimental work explored, among other subjects, f…
Ann Kjellberg
Sep 21
Each year more than 150,000 Americans kill themselves, either intentionally by suicide, or by drug overdoses where it’s hard to know what was intended,…
Ann Kjellberg
Sep 17 3
The commitment to the free exchange of ideas, a high principle at Malaprop’s, was thrown into high relief when North Carolina passed HB 2 and writers a…
Ann Kjellberg
Sep 12
When Emöke B’Racz, then a poet and traveler with a long-running yearning to open a bookstore, arrived in Asheville, North Carolina in 1982, one in ever…
Ann Kjellberg
Sep 11
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