Doris Lessing
                   
akamai.net     Jul 30, 2008            

Women's Impact Report: Grande Dames Though she rarely grants interviews and has declared her latest novel her last, 88-year-old British author Doris Lessing remains as vital a voice today as she was 46 years ago when her groundbreaking novel "The Golden Notebook" was embraced as a feminist manifesto. Lessing's capacity for truth-telling never fails to spawn controversy. Upon learning from a TV crew that she'd won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, she responded, "Oh, Christ." The comment had less to do with Lessing's attitude toward literary prizes (she has called the publishing industry overly prissy and commercial) than with the realization that she'd have to endure the ensuing pomp and publicity. Bloggers viewing the clip lauded her for not kowtowing to the media. Kowtow she does not. She famously rejected being made a... [read full story]                    


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France's literary return to work

buzzle.com     Aug 26, 2008          

A deluge of new books hit the stores as French publishers release novels for la rentrée littéraire. All right so you would be hard pushed to be able to tell it from the weather, which seems certainly to have rejoiced in...                    

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Doris Lessing

woyano.com     Aug 25, 2008          

Published Mon 25 Aug 2008, 0 Views, 0 Comments Doris Lessing being interviewed on a UK radio station, waxes sentimental about Communism. She was a member of the Communist Party in the 1950's, I believe she resigned in...                    

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World Class! The real lesson from these games is that it's time to stop putting ourselves down

dailymail.co.uk     Aug 25, 2008   1 related          

You almost hear the collective gasp of disbelief. Only beaten by those titans of world power: China, the U.S. and Russia! First, it goes without saying that we are not the same country we were a century ago, when Britain...                    

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Writing style stifles polygamy critique

azstarnet.com     Aug 21, 2008          

The main evidence: Ebershoff has fractured his narrative into texts, memoirs, depositions, letters, newspaper articles, an ersatz Wikipedia entry and even a supposed approximate transcript of conversation between wives of...                    

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