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‘A defiant and courageous spirit’: Critically acclaimed Irish writer Edna O’Brien dies aged 93
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 5 hours agoHer honours did include an Irish Book Award for lifetime achievement, the PEN/Nabokov prize and the...
People Who Met Murderers Are Sharing Their Terrifying Stories, And I'm Never Leaving My House Again
BuzzFeed via Yahoo Canada News· 6 hours ago"I was eating a TV dinner on a TV tray at my mother's house when the news came on of this guy...
Edna O’Brien, Irish literary giant who wrote ‘The Country Girls,’ dies at 93
The Globe and Mail· 18 hours agoO’Brien died Saturday after a long illness, according to a statement by her publisher Faber and the literary agency PFD. “A defiant and courageous spirit, Edna constantly strove to break new ...
Edna O’Brien, Writer Who Gave Voice to Women’s Passions, Dies at 93
New York Times· 21 hours agoMs. O’Brien wrote dozens of novels and short-story collections over almost 60 years, starting in...
Grosseto: The snubbed Italian town that's now winning awards
BBC News· 1 day agoDespite the world's obsession with Tuscany as a holiday destination, Grosseto seemed to have been...
France's centuries-old mountain farm stays
BBC News· 3 days agoReachable via ancient mule trails, these centuries-old farms-turned-inns serve some of France's most historic cheeses and offer a glimpse at the nation's...
Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Torchbearers
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 3 days agoToday...
In swing state Pennsylvania, middle class struggles to get by
Digital Journal· 4 days ago“Inflation has come down tremendously,” said Bill Leiner, a 70-year-old nurse and volunteer for the...
Arrested Development’s Speech on 1992’s ‘Extremely Personal’ Single ‘Tennessee’
AOL· 4 days agoSpeech still chokes up when he talks about it, more than 30 years after his older brother and grandmother died within days of each other, inspiring what would become Arrested Development’s biggest ...
Twelve classic novels to read this summer that aren't War and Peace
The i newspaper online iNews· 5 days agoIf you, too, have long been beset with a guilt-ridden reading list of hefty classics, try these...