Biography EssayBobbie Ann Mason grew "so sick of reading about the alienated hero of superior sensibility" who so frequently dominates twentieth-century American literature that she decided to write f...
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The people and terrain of rural western Kentucky figure prominently in the fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason, a highly regarded novelist and short story writer. Herself a native Kentuckian, Mason has chroni...
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"'Born to Run' ... that's my whole history, and my whole psychology, and all my subject matter. I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn't have much connection with the outside world. So...
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Bobbie Ann Mason grew "so sick of reading about the alienated hero of superior sensibility" who so frequently dominates twentieth-century American literature that she decided to write fiction about th...
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At the Perch Café on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, where neighborhood parents take their tots for early-morning sing-alongs, Roxanne Jacobson was buckling her son, 17-month-old Geir, into his st...
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New York, the magazine that almost unmasked JT Leroy but didn't, revisits another one of its stories. "The first Brangelina baby photos hit the streets today," New York's Web site ...
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Nevada's Nick Fazekas is back to nearly full speed, which could be bad news for opponents of the 18th-ranked Wolf Pack. Sidelined for two games with a sprained ankle earlier this month, Fazekas sco...
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Nick Fazekas scored 28 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead No. 11 Nevada to its ninth straight win, 95-81 over Boise State on Saturday night. The Wolf Pack (26-2, 12-1 Western Athletic Confer...
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