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    Alan Stuart Cheuse (January 23, 1940 – July 31, 2015) was an American writer, editor, professor of literature, and radio commentator. A longtime NPR book...
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  • 2014 – Wilfred Feinberg, American lawyer and judge (born 1920) 2015 – Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (born 1940) 2015 – Howard W. Jones, American...
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  • and sculptor 1939 – Ed Roberts, American activist (died 1995) 1940 – Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (died 2015) 1940 – Joe Dowell, American singer...
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  • pace. Amanda Vaill felt the nonlinear structure created suspense, while Alan Cheuse found it annoying. There were also critics who felt the novel was overwritten...
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  • experience against the background of a crumbling city. Alan Cheuse has this review ALAN CHEUSE, Critic: Lola Hart [sp] attends Briarly, one of the poshest...
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  • deeply flawed – yet compelling – characters. Writing for Chicago Tribune, Alan Cheuse described the book as "a first novel that reads like the accomplished...
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  • John Updike and The New York Times. The title of the book, according to Alan Cheuse of NPR, is suggestive and mysterious to Japanese readers — Franz Kafka...
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    Alan Cheuse Archived 2014-07-03 at the Wayback Machine, Middle Tennessee State University. Accessed August 4, 2013. "NPR commentator and critic Alan Cheuse...
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  • calling it King's "best novel in more than a decade". NPR book critic Alan Cheuse found no fault with the structure, commenting: "I wouldn't have [King]...
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  • in brute fright, though, it makes up for with more subtle pleasures". Alan Cheuse of NPR wrote "A rather neatly designed plot has kicked in even before...
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    award for All Things Considered: a tribute to Joe Barbera) David Budbill Alan Cheuse (–2015) Andrei Codrescu Vertamae Grosvenor Kevin Kling John McIlwraith...
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    Catalan Department of Culture. In 2018, she was a resident writer at the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center of George Mason University (Virginia, United...
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  • written concurrently with Crichton's then most recent novel, Next (2006). Alan Cheuse said, in review for NPR Books: "It builds on an actual event in maritime...
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    dramatic bent than the horror fiction for which he had become famous. Alan Cheuse wrote "Each of the first three novellas has its hypnotic moments, and...
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  • Video clip of interview with Mary Doria Russell and NPR Book Reviewer Alan Cheuse talking about faith and fiction in The Sparrow. Mary Doria Russell personal...
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  • mixed reviews from critics. Writing for NPR, American writer and critic Alan Cheuse called The Shining Girls "a triumph" and "a marvelous narrative feat...
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  • a novelist never to do anything but stories of Midwestern families." Alan Cheuse of National Public Radio found the novel "[brilliant]" but not enjoyable...
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    Alexievich  Belarus Zoya Boguslavskaya (Russia) Norman Mailer  United States Alan Cheuse (US) Zbigniew Herbert  Poland J. M. Coetzee (South Africa) Toni Morrison...
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  • literature. Among his students were poet Robert Pinsky and fiction writer Alan Cheuse.[citation needed] Fergusson, Francis. 1949. The Idea of a Theater: A...
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    TheJadedNetwork.Com "'Tokyo Year Zero' Gets Under Readers' Skin" by Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered. A review of a novel that uses Japanese phonomime...
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  • and Alan Cheuse highlighted the work on National Public Radio's program All Things Considered as a top literature holiday pick. Protagonist Alan Corday...
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    themes of emigration, racism and brutality and was described by NPR's Alan Cheuse as the work of a "lapidary young master". Lynch's second novel, The Black...
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    2008) Public radio interview of Mary Doria Russell and NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse discussing historical fiction. WorldCat Identities Page Mary Doria Russell...
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  • years include Bill Barich, Henry Carlisle, Olga Carlisle, Don Carpenter, Alan Cheuse, Mark Childress, Lucille Clifton, Janet Fitch, Herbert Gold, Jay Gummerman...
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  • their nasty, vicious, delicious bite." The San Francisco Chronicle's Alan Cheuse wrote that "most readers will find themselves turning pages with the...
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  • described it as "the best generation starship novel I have ever read." NPR's Alan Cheuse praised the novel's narrative voice: "Almost the entire narrative, with...
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    Frank Pagano Daniel Handler Carl Hiaasen Douglas Adams Andy Borowitz Alan Cheuse Roy Peter Clark Margit Detweiler Tim Dorsey Tananarive Due Julia Glass...
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    publisher-McGraw-Hill, 2004 Craft & Voice, an Introduction to Literature (w. Alan Cheuse), publisher—McGraw-Hill, 2012 Nicholas (Franklin) Delbanco Summary. "Delbanco...
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  • 1942), Cyteen Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), The Marrow of Tradition Alan Cheuse (1940–2015), The Grandmothers' Club Tracy Chevalier (born 1962), Girl...
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    same name by John Frankenheimer in 1991. He is married with two sons. Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio's longtime "voice of books," called him "the best...
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