Browsing the blog archives for the day Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Margaret Atwood pulls out of Book Festival in Censorship Protest

This from BookBrunch:
It appears that Margaret Atwood has pulled out of the Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature, launching in Dubai next week. The move follows reports that Geraldine Bedell was told that she could not launch her novel The Gulf Between Us at the festival owing to Bedell’s depiction of a gay sheikh. Atwood [...]

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February 18, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction
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Birthday Books

My, I was a lucky girl this birthday. Not only did I receive a huge pile of books from various lovely people, but I was also given a wad of book tokens, which I of course immediately went out and spent in their entirety. It’s a non-fiction bonanza this year. Witness:
From John, my beloved, I [...]

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February 18, 2009 by Kirsty in auto/biography, feminism, fiction, history
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