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| | A Year With William Trevor | #WilliamTrevor2023 Fiction - Kindle edition; Penguin; 252 pages; 2008. To kick off 'A Year With William Trevor' - which I am co-hosting with Cathy from 746 Books - I randomly selected Cheating at Canasta, a collection of short stories that were first published in the Guardian, the New Yorker,...
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| | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with...
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| | "Ukiyo-e Today, No. 7" by Okamoto Ryusei, 1974 (via Ukiyo-e.org) Check out Episode 13 of the Read Literature podcast. Today, we're talking about the literature of change in the 1960s-how writers took on questions about what it meant to be Japanese in the post-war era and what was the continuing role of Japanese tradition. We're...
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| I didn't know when I stumbled on Ellie Curzon's The Ration Book Baby at the library, that it's the first in a series called A Village at War. The other titles churned out since 2021 are The Spitfire Girl (2023)*, The Wartime Vet (2024), Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls (2024), The Codebreaker Girls (2021)...