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Washington DC Literature
Author who rescued Ethiopian Jewish girl from slavery spoke in DC April 23
child slavery
April 16, 2012
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
Ernest Hemingway
March 6, 2012
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
#diamonds
November 1, 2011
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
DC Jewish Literary Festival
October 25, 2011
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
DC Jewish Literary Festival
October 19, 2011
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
Toni Morrison
September 23, 2011
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
Toni Morrison
September 23, 2011
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
National Book Festival
September 18, 2011
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’
bloomsday
June 16, 2011
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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