Allow Manuel Ramos to demystify the mystery for you.
The two time Colorado Book Award winner, who also has received three honorable mentions from the Latino International Book Awards, will be the featured presenter during Aprilâs Writersâ Night at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, on Zoom with the Western Colorado Writersâ Forum.
Ramos, who has authored 10 novels and one short story collection, will be talking about the changes he sees in crime fiction and diversity within the mystery genre.
This Zoom workshop is limited to 20 participants and information can be found at westerncoloradowriters.org.
Information about Ramos and his books can be found at manuelramos.com.
They Are Giving Hemingway Another Look, So You Can, Too
Lynn Novick and Ken Burns consider the seminal writer in all his complexity and controversy in their new PBS documentary series.
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Of Ernest Hemingway, Ken Burns, left, said, “This is a guy who’s emerging out of a modernist tradition in which everybody is complicated.” Lynn Novick said the moment for the series was apt: “We are living in times when we are re-evaluating all these icons from our past.”Credit.Kelly Burgess for The New York Times, Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times
Could there be anything more subversive than turning a spotlight, in this moment, on Ernest Hemingway?
With Open Ears, Indian Ragas and Western Melodies Merge
Amit Chaudhuri charts his musical journey in a new book, “Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music.”
Amit Chaudhuri’s “Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music,” out now from New York Review Books, blends memoir and music appreciation.Credit.Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times out now from New York Review Books. In it, Chaudhuri charts a personal journey that began with a Western-oriented love for the singer-songwriter tradition, followed by a headlong immersion into Indian classical music.
That heritage remained supreme for him until an accident of what he calls “mishearing” made him conscious of the elements shared by ragas and Western sounds a realization that led to his ongoing recording and performance project
China s amazing success and the road ahead chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-03-31 06:30 Share CLOSE
Mario Cavolo, a China-based Italian-American writer and communications specialist, shares with us his insights on China s amazing achievements, especially on poverty alleviation and pandemic control, and the capable, efficient governance model that lies behind.
To maintain such good development momentum, it s time for China to look at some fundamental issues such as the hukou reform, Mario says when talking about China s future.
In addition, he rejects the vaccine diplomacy and debt diplomacy charge made against China and makes it clear that China doesn t want to be world s No 1 but rather a helpful and successful global partner that the world needs.
Philip Roth 2002 (Dennis Van Tine/ABACAPRESS.COM)
The reviews of Blake Bailey’s
Philip Roth: The Biography have been pouring out on both sides of the Atlantic. What is striking is how badly written the British ones have been and how smart the American ones are. What makes the British reviews so much worse?
First, the bizarre omissions. Tim Adams’s review in
The Observer of Bailey’s biography doesn’t use the words “Jew” or “Jewish” once. This is extraordinary. Not only was Roth Jewish, he wrote constantly about Jews, from Anne Frank and Kafka to his own fictional characters Portnoy and Zuckerman. Roth couldn’t have been more Jewish. It’s not just the Jewish subject matter. Above all, it’s the voice, that distinctive mix of high and low, funny and serious. “If Yahweh wanted me to be calm,” he writes in