Brinkley to break out memoir Uptown Girl details
Christie Brinkley announced a memoir titled Uptown Girl to be published April 29 by Harper Influence. The book covers her rise as a supermodel, acting career, marriages including Billy Joel, a 1994 helicopter crash, and life on tour from Paris to Broadway and film, aiming to inspire readers to pursue adventure.
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Visionary girl Merondis in a midwinter fairy tale
A 19 year old with extrasensory gifts follows her elder sister Ysolde into Merowdis wood on a list of errands. Merondis converses with animals and wood while her two dogs and a pig named Apple accompany her as light gray snow falls and a ghostly cloaked figure appears ahead.
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Vision of Future Bear Cub Shines in Winter Fairy Tale
Merondis journeys through a wood guided by animals who urge caution as she confronts a mysterious cloaked figure. A vision of herself aged appears beside a bear cub child, foreshadowing her desires. Landon’s black and white washes and borders heighten Clarke’s protective tale, a strong, imaginative winter read.
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James among finalists for PEN/Faulkner Prize fiction
Percival Everett's James is named a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction alongside Louise Erdrich The Mighty Red Rachel Kushner Creation Lake and Garth Greenwell Small Rain. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation released a 10 nominee longlist to be cut to five in March and a winner announced in April with a $15000 prize. Everett's novel, a modern reworking of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has previously won the National Book Award the Kirkus Prize and the Carnegie Medal and was short listed for the Booker Prize and a National Book Critics Circle award.
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Jurors withdraw from Giller Prize sponsorship dispute
Two jurors Aaron Tucker and Jordan Abel pulled out of the five member panel for the $100000 fiction prize amid ethical concerns over the Scotiabank sponsorship. Tucker said stepping away aligned with his principles and warned it would harm his writing community. Rabinovitch declined to link resignations to the early end of the Scotiabank partnership.
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