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The Empathy Lady/ Celebrated essayist Leslie Jamison, who is on the longlist for a PEN Literary Award, has struck a tricky balance between her privacy and the shared emotion she has come to represent. MANCHESTER, N.H., March 27, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Last week finalists were announced for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. "For some writers," said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN American...
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Pacing, Patience, and Practice: Southern New Hampshire University Pushcart Prize nominee Sarah E. Caouette used a Hemingway short story and an MFA program's community of high-achieving writers to find her identity as an artist MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 30, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Among all our art forms, the practice of literature is perhaps our most solitary. For some, that's part of its appeal. That would be the case with...
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The Proof Is In the Oscars MANCHESTER, N.H., Oct. 24, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Oscars for short fiction have just hit the bookstores, and you can find them within the covers of Houghton Mifflin's anthology, "Best American...
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Same As It Ever Was MANCHESTER, N.H., Sept. 17, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This is the dream that writers have—that once you hit a home run, once you publish something big and the applause rings in your ears, then...
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Nugent Takes Charge of Southern New Hampshire's MFA Writing Program MANCHESTER, N.H., June 27, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Award-winning novelist, essayist, and short story writer Benjamin Nugent has been named the new director of Southern New Hampshire University's...
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The Empathy Results MANCHESTER, N.H., April 22, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leslie Jamison began by describing pain that didn't exist, that was scripted for her in her role as a medical actor in role-playing sessions that...