Hints and tips:
...According to writer Virginia Faulkner and diplomat Jerry Wadsworth, questions guaranteed to liven conversation include, “Are you a bed wetter?” and, “Do you like string?” Try them some time....
...Born in Jordan in 1959 to Lebanese Druze parents, he spent time in the UK and now teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in the US....
...As well as pounding the city pavement, Kazin reads Faulkner, Emerson, Whitman and Melville....
...At the peak, refineries were paying collectors $3 a gallon for rendered cooking oil, said Ryan Faulkner, general manager of the Virginia Biodiesel Refinery company, which also has a grease collection business...
...Gunn teaches creative writing at the University of Dundee, and that she thanks real people for their help in making sense of these “papers” – including the director of the Scottish Arts Council and two Virginia...
...This choreography next produced plates of soft Katahdin lamb and Berkshire pork, which had journeyed from Virginia and tasted none the worse for it....
...David Foster Wallace, Herman Melville, Faulkner and Chekhov. What are you scared of? Global warming, which I spend most of my day thinking about. When do you feel most free?...
...Cut to Winfield, West Virginia, exactly nine years later. Here the focus is on Lola’s two children. The son fathered by Leavitt, nine-year-old Termite, is mildly hydrocephalic....
...Charles Melton, Rose of Virginia 2007 Barossa Valley (£12.25 www.winedirect.co.uk) is the current vintage of the prototype of this beefy barbecue style of pink....
...It won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1999, and he adapted it for a film, which ushered him into a life that routinely required consorting with film stars....
...CATHERINE THE GREAT: Love, Sex and Powerby Virginia RoundingHutchinson ₤20 Sexually voracious, head-strong, hard-working and intellectual, Empress Catherine II of Russia was everything an 18th-century woman...
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