Check out these updates from Omnivoracious for August 30, 2013.
Because the week can get hectic... Here's what you might have missed recently on Omni.
Sara Nelson spoke with biographer Shane Salerno about chasing the mysterious J.D. Salinger.
"I read what had been written about Salinger and I was troubled by how little was written by people who directly knew Salinger. So the same stories were repeated over and over again. It wasn't like the […
Guest Review: Susan Casey on "A House in the Sky"
Our thanks to Susan Casey (author of The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean) for this guest review of A House In The Sky: A Memoir, by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett. A House in the Sky was selected as one of our Best Books of the Month for September.
Growing up in the small town of Red Deer, Alberta, Amanda Lindhout dreamed big. She was a young girl with a curious …
Nobel-Prize Winning Irish Poet Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013
Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, died in Dublin this morning at the age of 74. His death, following a short illness, was announced by the Irish Times.
Heaney was the author of over 20 volumes of poetry and criticism, and edited several anthologies. Widely regarded as the most important Irish poet since fellow Nobel-laureate W.B.…
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