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NORWICH Plans to build a roughly half-mile sidewalk on Beaver Meadow Road have stalled after town officials last week decided not to seek grant funding for the project, frustrating neighbors who have called for traffic and safety improvements over.
Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of the books “Lincoln’s Melancholy” and “Powers of Two,” has
resigned from his positions as editor in chief of the Believer magazine and artistic and executive director of the Black Mountain Institute.
On March 24, staff of the institute, a literary arts center within the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the publisher of the Believer magazine, were notified via email that Shenk, 50, had resigned and that John P. Tuman, associate dean for faculty at the university, would step in as its acting executive director. A search for a new executive director will begin “as soon as is feasible,” wrote Jennifer Keene, dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
Joshua Wolf Shenk has resigned as editor of the Believer magazine msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Anton Chekhov
It’s easy to feel daunted by the idea of talking about Anton Chekhov’s work because we admire him so much or because so much has already been said by scholars and writers.
Chekhov is often credited with having profoundly influenced the evolution of the modern short story. Peter Orner
So what is it that Chekhov manages? It’s complicated. But in the story “The Betrothed,” it has to do with the very obvious, though no less mysterious, issue. The characters in a short story are motivated by all the things they just can’t articulate and that, therefore, those around them can’t begin to understand either.