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Fall leaves appear on our horizon and we're bringing Gustav
Klimt's painting of Adele to our front page. It gets
us in the mood for apple cider, pumpkins, crisp fall days and
reading a newly
launched book from Little, Brown & Company:The
Dogs of Babel. Dede Bergen reviews it for us.
Our two summer fiction competitions provided us with great seaside
reading and we were pleased to include John
Ravenscroft as this
year's winner of The Storycove Fiction Award.
Author
and educator Noy
Holland acted as this year's fiction judge for The
Ten Ten Award for Fiction and she chose Maria
D. Headley as the winning writer.
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"He
did not know where a suitcase was, he disliked to pack, he needed
his books, his typewriter was not portable, he was used to an
electric blanket, he could not bear to eat in restaurants. His
mother, with her daredevil charity was about to wreck the peace
of the house."
Excerpt from The Comforts Of Home
Flannery O'Connor, circa 1947
