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Authors Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Clark Blaise, Elizabeth Nunez and Bharati Mukherjee discussed their immigrant experiences. The panelists related the stories and experiences created as thei…

Panelists who are immigrants discussed the impact of immigrant writers on American literature. Moderator Hampl wrote A Romantic Education. Ms. Tan wrote The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Ms. Mukh…

Participants talked about the growing popularity of memoirs and the reasons for the growth. Mr. Wolff is the author of The Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father. Ms. Friday is the author …

The Key West Literary Seminar held a panel discussion on roots and ancestry. Five memoir writers talked about the impact their ancestors had on their writing. They shared stories about thei…

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award read excerpts from their submissions. Awards were then presented for five categories: general nonfiction, criticism, poetry, biography/au…

Patricia Hampl read a short selection from her book I Could Tell You Stories, which has been nominated for an award in the general nonfiction category.

In the fourth of a series, contemporary authors read chapters six and seven of The Great Gatsby as part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birth. This took pl…

In the first of a series, contemporary authors read chapters one and two of The Great Gatsby as part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birth. Fitzgerald was …