A Washington lobbyist-turned-congressional candidate-turned author is having a feeding frenzy with what goes down on Capitol Hill, releasing a new book his team calls a “laugh-filled work of fiction that exposes how Congress really works.” George Franklin spent decades in the halls of the Capitol as the Kellogg Company’s vice president of worldwide government affairs.… […]
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Lobbyist-turned-novelist set to unleash ‘A Feeding Frenzy in Washington’
German novelist Horst Kruger’s autobiography up for review at Book City
TEHRAN – Iranian literati will come together in a session on Saturday at the Book City Institute in Tehran to attend a review of German writer Horst Kruger’s autobiography “The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler”. A Persian translation by Minu Lalroshan has recently been published by Tarh-e No in Tehran. The review session will […]
American gothic novelist Anne Rice dies aged 80
American gothic novelist Anne Rice has passed away at the age of 80. Her son Christopher Rice wrote in a social media post that she had died due to complications from a stroke. “In her final hours I sat beside her hospital bed in awe of her accomplishments and her courage,” Rice wrote. Anne Rice […]
Nobel Panel Awards 2021 Prize For Literature To Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals. The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the […]
Alison Lurie, prize winning novelist, dead at 94
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Black Jewish novelist Walter Mosley honored by National Book Foundation
JTA — Black Jewish novelist Walter Mosley received one of the National Book Foundation’s highest honors on Wednesday night: the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Since 1988, the lifetime achievement award has gone to Joan Didion, Ursula Le Guin and Toni Morrison, among others. Mosley is the first Black man to win the medal […]
FAMOUS FRENCH NOVELIST FOUGHT JEWISH TAKEOVER
Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, pen name Celine, (1894 -1961), a French physician, is “considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.” – Wikipedia Less well known, Celine was an outspoken “anti-Semite.” In this excerpt from his 1937 book“Trifles for a Massacre,” he maintains that Jewish power and influence is the only subject that matters. The fact that […]
Passport confiscated: Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan can’t come to Germany to receive Erich Maria Remarque Peace Price
nsnbc : Prominent Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan will not be able to accept the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize in Germany because her passport, previously confiscated […]
Novelist Houellebecq was wrong about rise of Muslim Brotherhood in France
Two years ago Michel Houellebecq, the very dark French novelist, published a dystopian satire called Submission about France succumbing to Sharia law under the rising political influence of Muslims. If you like Houellebecq’s manner as much as I do, you will find the book devilishly entertaining. And its meditations on literature (Huysmans) and spirituality are […]
Traveling on Israeli government’s dime, novelist trashes Netanyahu and ministers as ‘sorceress and stupid apprentices’
An Israeli novelist who is traveling to the United States at the behest of the Foreign Ministry repeatedly trashed the Benjamin Netanyahu government as nationalist demagogues in an appearance on Wednesday, with two officials of the Foreign Ministry in the audience. Dorit Rabinyan described Netanyahu and his ministers as “this sorceress and his apprentices… Bennett, […]
Survey examines Americans’ use of homeopathic medicines
While few report using homeopathy, many of those who do find it helpful in addressing common health problems A new survey finds that homeopathic medicines are primarily used by a small segment of the U.S. population for common, self-limited conditions such as the common cold or back pain. The report published in the American […]