Literary celebration, a combination of lectures, readings, panel discussions, versations, and it began the first years looking at the work of Ernest Deming way and it grew Ernest Hemingway and it grew. There was a seminar devoted to Tennessee Williams and a collection of writers. They look to people like james james merrill. Since that time, over the 30 plus years, the seminar has stuck to that same fourday format. It is an investigation of a particular literary theme. Anyway you can divide contemporary american literature, we have had seminars devoted by biography an autobiography, seminars devoted to poetry as well as in a particular sense the poetry of elizabeth bishop. We have looked at the popular crime fiction genre. We did a seminar called the dark side. A lot of really wonderful bigname crime writers. We delve into nonfiction through a variety of topics. One of the things we like to do is explore how nonfiction writing and fiction talk to one another and how a biographer or his
I guess. I wanted to describe killing, accounts of several murders and cases where game and have been killed by straight men or people who think they are straight or ostensibly straight or identifying as straight at the time. The reason i called it honor killings is because i want to focus on the criminals in this and i wanted to examine the psychology that goes behind all of this. After looking at it very carefully, i decided that was what was at play, the sense of honor young men feel and that was it was more the cause of this violence coming from within these guys much more than it was about the victim. Number ofly large these cases, much larger than i realized at first. I chose cases from different environments all over the country, different geographical baltimore,fornia, there was one in michigan. South,explored down alabama, oklahoma, obviously. Lets take a look at this problem within the united states, but in its various geographical incarnations. Had thisan in oklahoma fantasy
The nbcc. Weve been honored to host this awards ceremony right here in this auditorium. The series of interviews that i have posted. They are posted on our blog and on the nbcc website. Thirty interviews over a threeweek time is a huge job and one that could not be done without that many editors who gave their help. Thank you to the Board Members. A few more thanks. In the huge thank you. I wonder if we can give up round of applause for the board. They make mention this also. With the enterprise. I think today they have it preaching to the choir. I think they will need that. [applause]. We can also mention that. I dont want that. Mention other things the arts and great organizations. To support them. Now its my pleasure to turn the evening over. The books editor. Its nice to see sony people here tonight. I am the president of the National Book critics circle. For the publishing year 2016. We are delighted to have you join us. With six categories fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiog
Woman is in the hospital with serious injuries outside a convenience store. Well show you the feview, the woman got pinned. Witnesses the man that owns the sedan felt the impact, and was able to prove the car rw woman. Police say a watertown woman went in the blue jeep that caused this crash. A fiveyearold of the car was also injured, although the injuries are minor. Right now police are still trying to determine what caused this woman to ram into this whi te jeep. John atwater, Wcvb Newscenter 5. Ben right now, five people are recovering after this bus crash in quincy. Newscenter 5s Shaun Chaiyabhat is live in quincy with an update. Johnshaun you can see that the school bus is still stuck in the side of the house. What caused the Chain Reaction crash is still being investigated. No one was inside when the bus clouds when the bus plowed through. The kids are still shaken up. Hospital, and the woman in the bus and suv were also taken to the hospital. The school bus lost control and hit
Police arrived both were dead. The couples two small children were found safe in a separate area of the home. Friends are still trying to come to terms with the tragedy. She would always greet you with a big hug and a big smile. She was a christian and she was proud of that. The Granville County sheriff says, he placed Jeremy Pearce on a 30 day paid suspension but did not say why. He did say it was not related to the domestic problems between the couple. The Court Martial of sgt bowe will start sooner than expected. The judge set april 18th as the start of the military trial. Also, the presiding judge says, he would wait to rule about the admissibility of evidence closer to. Or during. The trial. A raleigh woman is accused of briefly abandoning her two children in the Heritage Park neighborhood. Witnesses tell police, the woman ran after a man and left the children unattended on the sidewalk. The girls are two and three years old. The woman later returned to get the children, but polic