Biography EssayThe writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primari...
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Once named one of People magazine's most beautiful people, Louise Erdrich (born 1954) is a Native American writer with a wide popular appeal. She is no literary lightweight, however, having drawn comp...
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Like William Faulkner and his Yoknapatawpha County, American writer Louise Erdrich has created her own mythical landscape in and around Argus, a fictional Red River Valley reservation town on the Minn...
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The families Louise Erdrich first introduced in a short story, "The World's Greatest Fishermen" (1982) -- the Kashpaws, the Lamartines, the Pillagers, and the Morrisseys -- have also appeared in four ...
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Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary Native American writers. She writes poetry and some of the most sophisticated fiction and nonfiction being produced in the United States; her n...
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The writings of Louise Erdrich not only reflect her multilayered, complex background but also confound a variety of literary genre and cultural categories. Although she is known primarily as a success...
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LAURIE: A few weeks ago, the magazine I work for celebrated its 20th anniversary at the deliciously scandal-tinged James Beard House, with a dinner cooked by four great New York chefs who'd been fe...
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Litter from sexual activity is unpleasantly evident in High Bridge and People's parks, reflecting years of lewd conduct in the open air, police and park officials say.
Discarded underwear,...
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Sel Gris (aka Celtic Sea Salt): From
coastal France, this "moist" unrefined salt
gets its light-gray color from the clay and
minerals in the salt flats. Historically produced
by Celtic settlers i...
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Nairobi/Berlin (dpa) - Two German nationals and a Dutch woman
movie-maker were arrested by Kenyan police on suspicions related to
terrorism, a police spokesman said Friday i...
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The following recalls have been announced:_About 4,100 Pirates of the Caribbean sleeping bags, made in China and imported by Hoop Retail Stores LLC, because the surface paint on the sleeping bag's ...
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Here's a reason to visit New Orleans: Go shopping!Lucky magazine's April issue includes a shopping and style guide to the city, which is still struggling to recover its tourism base in the wake of ...
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Berlin/Nairobi (dpa) - Two Germans arrested in Kenya were released
and set to leave the country Saturday, the German embassy said as
foreign correspondents in the East Afric...
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As their two white armored cars push deep inside Haiti's largest slum, the Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers peer over their rifles for enemy gunmen amid spray-painted slogans saying "Down with the U.N."...
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As their two white armored cars push deep inside Haiti's largest slum, the Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers peer over their rifles for enemy gunmen amid spray-painted slogans saying "Down with the U.N."...
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Carnival revelers streamed into the city Saturday _ and Mardi Gras organizers hoped to throw such a fantastic party that visitors would vow to return to this tourist-dependent city again.Tourism of...
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