Wilda Williams Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Wilda Williams

Happy #Bloomsday! A century ago Irish author James Joyce’s Ulysses introduced Leopold Bloom as he wandered the streets of Dublin on June 16. Dr Clare Hutton, Reader in English and Digital Humanities at Loughborough University, discusses a... https://t.co/cTm9OgBq0J

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Google Google honors the memory of Anne Frank, who would have turned 93 this June, and commemorates the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl. https://t.co/LmYrAbc7eg

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What do you do when you retire from acting? You make your literary debut at age 90. "The actor, 90, has long harboured the desire to write a thriller, and was inspired to do so by a news item ...about “the discovery of uranium by workers on a dump in London’s East End”. https://t.co/L3bevmc7Yy

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Laurie Colwin’s Tomato Pie What’s the best book you’ve ever received as a gift? At my first daily newspaper job in Savannah, Ga., I sometimes wrote food features, and someone gave me Laurie Colwin’s “Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen.” I... https://t.co/CnptW0Reme

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The Paris Review - Nobody Writes Like Nancy Lemann - The Paris Review Susan Minot’s lovely tribute to an underappreciated Southern writer. The Fiery Pantheon is one of my favorite novels. https://t.co/Si7A80IAVl

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Watching @CBSSunday and just learned that Sigourney (born Susan) Weaver took her name from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Andy that her father created the Today and Tonight shows. https://t.co/2nXNV2geRP

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I think she is the sort of girl who will never leave her mother. I have met many such daughters. –Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac The suffocating mother-daughter relationship described in Brookner’s Booker Award-winning novel couid have been my... https://t.co/vHcB2HHTDD

Wilda Williams

The Paris Review - Nobody Writes Like Nancy Lemann - The Paris Review Susan Minot’s lovely tribute to an underappreciated Southern writer. The Fiery Pantheon is one of my favorite novels. https://t.co/Si7A80IAVl

Wilda Williams

Great lineup of authors tonight from @librarylovefest. As an Old Movie Weirdo I am especially looking forward to Gail Tsukuyama's June 2023 novel about Anna May Wong, The Brightest Star. #TCMParty https://t.co/dWMK6G90yF https://t.co/ivwktisufv

Wilda Williams

Google Google honors the memory of Anne Frank, who would have turned 93 this June, and commemorates the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl. https://t.co/LmYrAbc7eg