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Ireland Creates New Fiction Award Worth More Than $200,000

December 18, 2013

The Arts Council of Ireland announced last week the creation of The Laureate for Irish Fiction, a new award honoring an outstanding Irish fiction writer.

You Can Disappear in This Town Real Quick

By Justin Glawe

December 18, 2013

A reporter searches for a missing friend in the oil boomtown of Williston, North Dakota.

Someone is Acting Out the Novel Sister Carrie on Twitter

By Arvind Dilawar

December 18, 2013

A handful of Twitter profiles are, for some reason, reenacting the Victorian novel Sister Carrie.

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