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April 23, 2009

Today is the birthday of Shakespeare, born in 1564

and Nabokov, born in 1899. Wheww!

Did you see who the Pulitzer Prize winners for Letters, Drama, and Music are?

For FICTION: Olive Kitteridge–stories,  by Elizabeth Strout
A collection of 13 short stories set in small-town Maine that packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating.

One of the finalists was Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves (which I DID read and really enjoyed).

AWESOME! I bought this collection last year but only read two stories from it– not because I didn’t like it but because I was reading two other books at the same time. Can’t wait to go back to it.

What a coup for short story writers!!