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Writer Joan Didion, Sacramento native whose 'electric anxiety' inspired a generation, has died at 87When Didion started writing in the 1960s, she put a certain kind of voice on the page — neurotic, female — that hadn't been there before.
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One way to get kids interested in reading and literacy is to present THEIR stories. That is the approach of Stories Alive, based in Ashland. Stories that…
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Whether it's on paper, on a big screen, or on a mobile device, we're often just looking for stories. Our parents read them to us as kids, and the habit…
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Louisa May Alcott lit a fire that still burns when she wrote "Little Women" a century and a half ago. Who knew people were still clamoring to read the…
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Recent editions of Grimm's Fairy Tales have taken the tales back to their roots, which are rather gruesome. Characters get hacked, die, and even get eaten…
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It was Alice who went down the rabbit hole, but David Day followed her. Day is a Canadian poet and author who did the hard work of figuring out just what…
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It's back to school in another key Exchange interview from the past. Our teacher is journalist Constance Hale, who whacks metaphorical hands with…
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The literary magazine The Paris Review began making history soon after its introduction 62 years ago. Notable writers came to the public's attention,…
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"Nobody cares about books anymore," you might hear from time to time. Azar Nafisi begs to differ. She taught great American works of fiction to students…
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Robert Arellano's passion for writing is noticed by his students at Southern Oregon University. Somebody else noticed the passion and recognized it:…