Donald Trump Should Not Be President — Author Signs With 400 Other Writers

Edit Inquisitr 26 May 2016
Stephen King and 400 other notable writers, including Cheryl Strayed and Amy Tan, penned “an open letter to the American people” about why they are opposed to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ... Stephen King along with 400 other writers are petitioning against Trump ... Besides Stephen King, other authors signing on to the letter include Richard Russo, Phillip Lopate, Ann Packer, and Ed McClanahan....

Stephen King, Cheryl Strayed Sign Open Letter Condemning Donald Trump

Edit Rollingstone 25 May 2016
Stephen King, Wild author Cheryl Strayed, Junot Diaz, Michael Chabon and Jennifer Egan are among the 400 writers who have lent their name to an online letter condemning Donald Trump ... Trump for the Presidency of the United States." Sidebar. Stephen King ... Other authors to sign the open letter include Ed McClanahan, Jonathan Lethem, Dave Eggers, Amy Tan, Richard Russo, Phillip Lopate, Ann Packer and hundreds more ... ....

Literary guide

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 05 May 2016
Literary guide Susan Griffin, Adam Hochschild, Drew Dillinger “The Ice Dancer’s Tale,” “Spain in Our Hearts,” “Love Letter to the Milky Way.” 2 p.m ... www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org ... 6 p.m ... Ann Packer, Jan Ellison “The Children’s Crusade” and “A Small Indiscretion.” 7 p.m ... Ann Packer “The Children’s Crusade.” 7 p.m ... Hot Reads for a Cool Summer Mike Jung’s “Unidentified Suburban Object,” Annemarie O’Brien’s “Lara’s Gift” and Mary Ann Scheuer....

Family dynamics deftly examined in Ann Packer’s ‘The Children’s Crusade’

Edit Kansas City Star 03 May 2016
Ann Packer’s “The Children’s Crusade” is now in paperback. Story centers around Blair family of six, each dealing with their own internal struggles … Click to Continue » ... ....

Bestselling author Ann Packer to speak in Nashville

Edit Nashville Tennessean 11 Apr 2016
Author Ann Packer will take part in a literary conversation with Nashville-based author Ed Tarkington Thursday at The Skillery.        .   ... ....

Novel follows California family through the decades

Edit The Wichita Eagle 09 Apr 2016
The Children’s Crusade” by Ann Packer (Scribner, 432 pages, $16, paperback) Often, families whose lives appear to be idyllic harbor turmoil on the inside. This is not a new vein ... ....

Lehigh County deed transfers: October 2-9, 2015

Edit Lehigh Valley 12 Mar 2016
Silbert, Barbara Ann to Moussa, Michael, $51,000, 778 E Green St ... and Mary Ann to Packer, Dominic J ... and Anne to Balletta, Michael R ... and Miller, Ruth Ann to AWF Legacy LLC, $110,000, 4017 W Chew St ... Kochenash, Kathryn and Daniel J., Reed, Maryann and Reed, Mary Ann to Martinez, Sandy Elsie, $137,000, 1185 Mickley ......

A Chat with John McManus

Edit Huffington Post 09 Feb 2016
Let it be known that John McManus writes like the love child of Denis Johnson and Joy Williams. The youngest ever winner of the prestigious Whiting Award and author of two previous books of short stories and one novel, McManus recently published his long awaited story collection Fox Tooth Heart to widespread critical acclaim ... Instead she joins forces with a group of young Satanists ... Dick, Ursula K ... The Children's Crusade--Ann Packer ... ....

Women's 800-Meter World Records

Edit About.com 26 Jan 2016
As a result, women were only allowed to compete in the 800 meters at one Olympic Games before 1960 ... The third women’s Olympic 800-meter event yielded another world record, in 1964, as Great Britain’s Ann Packer captured the Tokyo gold medal in 2.01.1. Packer was probably the least likely record-breaker in the history of the women’s event. A 400-meter runner, Packer had mainly used the 800 to help train for the 400 ... Read more.....

The year in books: what have the writers been reading in 2015?

Edit The Irish Times 05 Dec 2015
I also enjoyed Anne Enright’s The Green Road (Jonathan Cape) for the dialogue, the clever narrative structure, and the gnarled, contemporary sense of family values ... Anne Enright ... Another fine novel about families, and the madness they bring with them, was Ann Packer’s absorbing, underrated third novel, The Children’s Crusade (Scribner)....

2015 Hall of Fame inductees announced (England Athletics)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2015
Her progress was astonishingly rapid, and her dramatic development was maintained during 1967 when in the USA v Commonwealth match in Los Angeles she - the slowest on paper - defeated a glittering 400m field in 52.8 for second on the European all-time list behind Ann Packer ... Still aged 19, she had run 52.12 to break Ann Packer's UK record, gained ......

Miami Book Fair International releases full schedule

Edit The Miami Herald 27 Sep 2015
If you find yourself more overwhelmed than usual gazing at the massive Miami Book Fair International schedule, you are not alone ... Remember. “Evenings With ...” events are ticketed ($15) ... Oct ... Nov ... 5 ... 22 ... 21 ... Ann Beattie, Sara Gruen, Lauren Groff, Mat Johnson, Adam Johnson, Mary Gaitskill, Aleksander Hemon, Amy Hempel, Lily King, Paula McClain, Elizabeth McCracken, Ann Packer, Richard Price, Jim Shepard, Sister Souljah, Amy Tan, Vendela Vida....

11 Fantastic Audiobooks You Can't Miss

Edit Huffington Post 25 Aug 2015
By Emma Volk . Off the Shelf. I grew up surrounded by books -- and even more memorably, by the sound of books. I did my math homework while playing Harry Potter audiobooks, fell asleep to the sound of my mother reading aloud, and listened to countless mystery novels on tape during family road trips ... What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey. When Oprah speaks, you listen ...   ... The Children's Crusade by Ann Packer ... Narrated by Anne Twomey ... ....
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