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Washington DC Literature

Author who rescued Ethiopian Jewish girl from slavery spoke in DC April 23

Judie Oron, who wrote "Cry of the Giraffe" about an Ethiopian Jewish girl she rescued from slavery, discussed her award-winning book at...
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Hemingway-Faulkner rivalry discussed at Library of Congress

The competition between Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, both Nobel Prize winners, was discussed by the author of the new “Faulkner and...
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Diamond book author sparkled at DC Jewish literary festival 10/31

Local author Alicia Oltuski, daughter and granddaughter of diamond dealers, gave a brilliant talk here October 31 about her multi-faceted new book ...
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Jews in the Civil War program opened fascinating DC literary festival

A Jewish southern belle spy; the Jewish "brains of the Confederacy"; and Jewish soldiers on the North and the South; plus Abraham Lincoln...
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Jews and the Civil War, God and gays, Israel and the bomb highlight DC lit fest

Jews and the Civil War, God and gays, Israel and the bomb, are just some of the hot topics highlighting the Washington, DC Jewish Community Center...
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Toni Morrison's advice about writing

Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Toni Morrison, in Washington to receive the Library of Congress' 2011 National Book Festival Award for...
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Toni Morrison talked about N word, sexism, spitup, and writing in DC

Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison told a Washington audience 9/23 that the current “level of cruelty is worse than it...
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National Book Festival presents 100 authors on the National Mall 9/24-25

The Library of Congress’ free National Book Festival is so popular that it’s expanded to two days, September 24 and 25, and offers more...
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'Bloomsday' 6/16 celebrated on bikes by DC fans of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’

Costumed fans of James Joyce, “Ulysses”, and its main characters Molly and Leopold Bloom, celebrated "Bloomsday" June 16 in...
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Edith Pearlman wins Malamud short story award

  • PEN/Malamud Award
  • June 8, 2011
The coveted PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, one of America's top literary honors,goes to Edith Pearlman, the PEN/Faulkner...
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