Co-director of the Creative Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz, Yamashita received a 2011 California Book Award in the Fiction category for her novel I Hotel, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. I Hotel also won the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
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For co-editor Wendy Tafur, a senior creative writing and theatre major, departure had a very literal meaning to her as an international student from Ecuador. “My first thought immediately around departure was when I left my country, and I came here freshman year. Now, I think of departure from college,
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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he topped the charts and in 1992 was given the largest cash advance in music publishing history. He co-wrote the songs for Disney's The Lion King and wrote the music for a production of Aida. • In 1997 he sang a reworked Candle in the Wind at the funeral of his friend
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In order to celebrate this new venture's launch, the giant is offering the audiobooks from best-sellers around the world just for $10. Yes, you can pick some of the best selling books from the Play Store just for $10. According to sources, people have turned up to audiobooks instead of ebooks and they
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She was earning a master's degree in creative writing while also working for the union. She also continued to edit a digital magazine celebrating African women. Her Afroelle magazine aims to “encourage, empower and elevate” women of African heritage by showcasing “entrepreneurs, leaders,
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Robots aren't just infiltrating our economy—they're becoming an omnipresent force in our culture. Just take a look at the definitions Google provides for basic tasks, like breathing and eating, and you'll see how robots are already distorting collective knowledge, argues Jacob Brogan. According to
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Students do not earn credits, and the course is instructed by Sellers, not by ASUMH faculty. A writer who has been writing, producing and directing animated films since the age of 14, Sellers said she has completed six writing scripts and one 25-minute animated episode of her film series, “Dagon: Troll
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SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) — A Chinese court ruled that Activision Publishing Co. won a trademark lawsuit over a Chinese film distributor. The people's court in Pudong New Area in Shanghai ordered Huaxia Film Distribution Co. Ltd. to stop infringement of the rights of Activision and pay damages of
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Handler, who has written two nonfiction books and has a novel coming out in 2019, is a founding member of the board of the Decatur Writers Studio and teaches creative writing and coordinates the minor in writing program at Oglethorpe University. o Sept. 5: Anthony Grooms, “The Vain Conversation.
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Veach said the most significant hit is in the libraries' book collections, saying they can only purchase one format of a best seller when before they would order books, DVDs, and audio formats. “We aren't able to purchase things to provide the resources needed, not enough to meet the demand,” said
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Bart Ehrman, the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will discuss his newest book, “The Triumph of Christianity,” at a lunch hosted by Blue Ridge Books at noon Saturday, Feb. 17, in HART Theater's Harmons' Den Bistro. A scholar
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