Iran blames Rushdie for public attack; Scotland police investigating a threat to J.K. Rowling
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
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An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.
The notion that a televised competition could produce a "great" writer (always paying careful attention to how the producers define that notoriously slippery word) is questionable at best.
“I wanted to examine alternatives to framing narratives about sexual exploitation and violent crime,” says the author about her two linked novellas.
A two-day program on June 17 and 18 celebrates the work of the late American Nobel Prize winner as well as highlighting the importance of Black women's writing.
“Partisan loyalty is socially disastrous; but for individuals it can be richly rewarding.”
The new online publication is a multimedia endeavour aimed at opening the doors to younger and marginalized writers struggling to get a toehold in the publishing world.
Timid is not a word anyone would reach for to describe Blais’s fiction, and especially her early work, which remains as shocking and defiant today as when it first appeared.
Horror doesn’t gel with those who’ve propped up CanLit respectability – that is, chiefly cishet, nondisabled white people, Pottle writes.
“I think I see life in very, very noir terms,” says the author, who considered quitting after finishing work on her latest novel.