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SHALLA: Reads Works of Nobel Prize Winners and Pulitzer Prize Winners

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 103 persons since 1901.

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Like to read works of Nobel Prize Winners?
Song of Solomon (Oprah's Book Club) (Paperback) by Toni Morrison (207 customer reviews)
Snow (Paperback) by Orhan Pamuk (73 customer reviews)
The Piano Teacher: A Novel (Hardcover) by Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) "THE PIANO TEACHER, Erika Kohut, bursts like a whirlwind into the apartment she shares with her mother..." (more) Key Phrases: Walter Klemmer, Erika Kohut, Herr Klemmer (more...) (30 customer reviews)
The Conservationist (Paperback) by Nadine Gordimer "Pale freckled eggs..." (more) Key Phrases: third pasture, freckled eggs, guinea fowl eggs, South West, Christmas Club, New Year (more...) (7 customer reviews)
Being And Nothingness (Paperback) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes (Translator) "MODERN thought has realized considerable progress by reducing the existent to the series of appearances which manifest it..." (more) Key Phrases: New York (53 customer reviews)
And of course, one of Shalla's favorite authors:
John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America) (Hardcover) by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott (Editor), Elaine A. Steinbeck (Editor) "WHEN the Carmelo Mission of Alta California was being built, some time around 1776, a group of twenty converted Indians abandoned religion during a night,..." (more) Key Phrases: stable buck, solitaire hand, halter chains, Big Joe, Jesus Maria, Tortilla Flat (more...) (8 customer reviews)
Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden (Library of America) (Hardcover) by John Steinbeck "BY TEN-FORTY-FIVE it was all over..." (more) Key Phrases: face ryas, Lee Chong, Doctor Winter, Cannery Row (more...) (3 customer reviews)
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
February 27 marks the great Steinbeck's 100th birthday, and the publishing world is celebrating appropriately. The Library of America volume collects the author's little-known 1942 novel The Moon Is Down along with popular standards Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952). If you prefer individual copies, Penguin is also releasing top-quality paperback Centennial Editions of several of Steinbeck's titles, which in addition to those listed above and those in the Library of America collection include his travelog Travels with Charley in Search of America (ISBN 0-14-200070-1) and the Pulitzer Prize winner The Grapes of Wrath (ISBN 0-14-200066-3), perhaps the greatest American novel of the 20th century. Penguin, which publishes Steinbeck's 26 works, reports that the volumes still sell more than one million copies annually. Happy birthday, big guy!
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
William Faulkner : Novels 1942-1954 : Go Down, Moses / Intruder in the Dust / Requiem for a Nun / A Fable (Library of America) (Hardcover) by William Faulkner, Joseph Blotner (Editor), Noel Polk (Editor) "ISAAC MCCASLIN, 'Uncle Ike', past seventy and nearer eighty than he ever corroborated anymore, a widower now and uncle to half a county and father..." (more) Key Phrases: Aleck Sander, Uncle Buck, Major de Spain (more...)
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Joseph Pulitzer and The Pulitzer Prizes by Seymour Topping
former Administrator of The Pulitzer Prizes
John Singer Sargent's portrait
of Joseph Pulitzer HISTORY OF THE PRIZES
1993

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories (Paperback) by Robert Olen Butler "I have no hatred in me..." (more) Key Phrases: hog bladder, strange mountain, New Orleans, Miss Linh, Doctor Joseph (more...) (28 customer reviews)



March (Paperback) by Geraldine Brooks "This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky..." (more) Key Phrases: Miss Day, Aunt March, Grace Clement (more...) (69 customer reviews)
Gilead: A Novel (Paperback) by Marilynne Robinson "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and..." (more) Key Phrases: old sermons, Jack Boughton, John Ames Boughton, Karl Barth (more...) (67 customer reviews)
The Known World: A Novel (Paperback) by Edward P. Jones "The evening his master died he worked again well after he ended the day for the other adults, his own wife among them, and sent..." (more) Key Phrases: dead master dead master, dead man layin, boardinghouse woman, William Robbins, John Skiffington, North Carolina (more...) (234 customer reviews)
Middlesex: A Novel (Paperback) by Jeffrey Eugenides "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage..." (more) Key Phrases: silkworm box, yia yia, carpet muncher, Father Mike, New York, Zebra Room (more...) (598 customer reviews)
Empire Falls (HBO Tie-in) (Paperback) by Richard Russo "THE EMPIRE GRILL was long and low-slung, with windows that ran its entire length, and since the building next door, a Rexall drugstore, had been..." (more) Key Phrases: new busboy, steamer clams, shirt factory, Father Mark, Empire Falls, Jimmy Minty (more...) (433 customer reviews)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback) by Michael Chabon "IN LATER YEARS, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare,..." (more) Key Phrases: comic book business, luna moth, blue tuxedo, New York, Joe Kavalier, Tracy Bacon (more...) (546 customer reviews)
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What is Slipstream?

posted by Shalla at 11:02 AM

SHALLA: Writing the Slipstream Story




Slipstream (a term coined by author Bruce Sterling) has also been called North American Magical Realistm, Contemporary Fabulist Fiction, Surrealism, Transrealism, or Interstitial Fiction.
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It's writing that blends literary tropes with
the fantastic and in the porcess, frees fiction from the limitations of realistm.





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Online writing by Mr. George Saunders
Slate Diary, Russia, June 2000
A Rememberance, from Quarterly West

Short Stories Available Online
"My Flamboyant Grandson," New Yorker, Jan. 2002
"Sea Oak" in English and Spanish, Barcelona Review, Sept-Oct 2000


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Karen Joy Fowler On-line Excerpts, Stories, Interviews, & Reviews


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The Jane Austen Book Club: Prologue
Sister Noon: Chapter One
Black Glass
Sarah Canary
The Sweetheart Season

Stories
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"The Elizabeth Complex"
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"Standing Room Only"
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Award-winning authors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel team up as editors to define a genre that ... well ... isn't

By John Joseph Adams


So what is slipstream, anyway?

Kelly: We make the point in our introduction that slipstream isn't really a genre at the moment and may never be one. What it is, in our opinion, is a literary effect—in the same way that horror or comedy are literary effects achieved by many different kinds of dissimilar stories. What is that effect? We borrowed the term cognitive dissonance from the psychologists. When we are presented with two contradictory cognitions—impressions, feelings, beliefs—we experience cognitive dissonance, a kind of psychic discomfort that we normally try to ease by discounting one of the cognitions as false or illusory and promoting the other to reality. But in some cases we aren't well served by this convenient sorting out.
We think that what slipstream stories do is to embrace cognitive dissonance. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." We believe that such an ability is necessary to cope with life in the 21st century and that stories that ask us to exercise that ability are an expression of the zeitgeist. Do you really need a definitive answer as to whether an electron is a wave or a particle? Why? Maybe it's time to make room for uncertainty in contemporary fiction, even if the stories do make you feel very strange. Slipstream may use metafictional techniques to estrange us from consensus reality, they may rewrite history, they may mash up different styles or genres. But that's the point, as we see it. Slipstream has no rules, it has only results.


Kessel: One of the things that's come to me as I've thought about this is how often slipstream stories feel like parables. "The Little Magic Shop" starts out as a parody or deconstruction of the many traditional tales about magic shops and deals with the devil. Then in the end it turns into an allegory about fantastic fiction as art vs. publishers' attempts to make it a commodity. The main character saves the fusty proprietor of the old magic shop and brings him into the contemporary world, the way writers like Bruce Sterling seek to haul science fiction out of its musty traditions and make it face the 21st century. I like this double nature to slipstream.
Slipstream stories always seem to be doing more than one thing at any time.The other thing that strikes me is how often they are funny. This is one of the things I've always liked about Kafka—the first thing you think about him is that he's terribly grim. But there is dark humor everywhere in his work. That humor is in slipstream stories like "Sea Oak" or "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-planes' by Benjamin Rosenbaum," or "Bright Morning."A story should give delight, pleasure and mystery. It should get at things that can't be gotten at any other way. We put a quote from Kafka on the cover of the book: "A story should be an ax to break the frozen sea within us."


Where did slipstream come from, and why do you think it's so prevalent (and relevant) today?

Kessel: I think Jim's point about cognitive dissonance is part of the reason it's common today. Many people feel that the world doesn't make sense according to the structures that held during the 20th century. Maybe it never has made sense, to a person of a certain sensibility; there have been individual stories that resemble slipstream around for a long time, from writers like Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges and Shirley Jackson outside of the genres, to say nothing of so-called genre writers like Damon Knight, Barry Malzberg and Fritz Leiber.

For more: SciFi



Like to read a Slipstream Story? Slipstream Stories

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SHALLA: U.S. Copyright Office issues new rights


By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer Wed Nov 22, 5:45 PM ET


NEW YORK - Cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations, the U.S. Copyright Office said Wednesday.

Other rights declared in the government's triennial review of the 1998
Digital Millennium Copyright Act seek to improve access for the blind and to obsolete works and let security researchers try to break copy-protection technologies embedded in CDs.

For more: Yahoo News


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Shalla de Guzman Honors Nobel Prize Laureates

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Shalla de Guzman Honors Nobel Prize Laureates

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