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Brothers Karamazov on stage

A stage production based on The Brothers Karamazov trounced the competition at yesterday’s L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards ceremony.

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Appalachian English online

An expert on Smoky Mountain English has created a website devoted to “the speech of the mountains from West Virginia to Alabama.”

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Adapting Disgrace

Steve Jacobs, director of Disgrace, tells Screen Africa that the film will be faithful to Coetzee’s novel.

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The TOB continues

TOB updates: The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy punts the Ford novel my way. Chaon picks Ali, Doerr goes for Pynchon, and Bookslut’s Jessa Crispin sends Adichie to round 3.

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