A MULTI-award winning stand-up, a podcaster, a novelist, an actor, a scriptwriter, a presenter, Russell Kane is something of a comedic Renaissance man, and he will be live in Galway s living rooms this week.
Islamabad
February 2, 2021
Islamabad:Intezar Hussain was praised as a trend-setting novelist, critic, writer, researcher and intellectual during a national literary seminar organised by the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the noted member of Pakistani literati.
The event was presided over by Prof. Fateh Mohammad Malik and attended by poet Kishwar Naheed as a special guest. PAL chairman Dr. Yousuf Khushk gave the introductory speech. Dr. Inam-ul-Haq Javed, Mohammad Hameed Shahid, Prof. Dr. Sofia Yousaf, Dr. Salahuddin Darwish, Dr. Farid Hussaini and Dr. Saira Alvi and Farida Hafeez spoke on the occasion. Mehboob Zafar was the moderator.
‘Hamnet’: When Anne Hathaway and her husband, the future playwright of ‘Hamlet’, lose their son
Maggie O’Farrell’s prizewinning novel of grief also reinvents the figure of William Shakespeare’s wife. Author Maggie O Farrell | Saul Sutcliffe / CC BY-SA 4.0
To read
Hamnet – winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2020 – is to learn the language of grief. It is to comprehend an insistent syntax, a repetitive rhythm that turns sentences into elegies. The minutest detail – the creaking of beams, lines of apples on shelves, skins stretched out in a glove workshop – has a specific texture, a shape, a smell that is examined to create a genealogy of remembrance.
Road to research
Local author and Tribune editor, Dana Haynes, visits exotic locations for work on Sirocco
I m thrilled to announce that my new thriller, Sirocco (Blackstone Publishing, $16.99), hit the stands Tuesday, Jan. 19. It s my ninth published novel, and the second starring Michael Finnigan and Katalin Fiero Dahar, following their 2019 debut in St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking.
The editor of the Metro Life section has graciously offered me this space to tout my book.
Before I do, just a quick aside. When I was 20, I wanted to be either a newspaper journalist or a novelist. Today, I m both, making me, by far, the luckiest guy I ve ever met. My work at the Portland Tribune and the Pamplin Media Group has been doubly rewarding this past year, as everyone from the publishers to the ad reps, from circulation to the production crew, came together to provide excellent journalism in the face of a pandemic, a recession, weeks and months of emotional protests about s