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Litstack Recs: Arranged Marriage & This Case Is Gonna Kill Me

Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Acclaimed poet, novelist, and story writer Chitra Banerjee Divrakaruni’s first book of fiction was published in 1995, and the eleven stories in Arranged Marriage demonstrated her gift for chronicling female cultural dislocation and the compound identities that come with leaving one place—with its engrained customs and beliefs—for another. [….]

LitStack Rec: Arranged Marriage: Stories & This Case Is Gonna Kill Me

Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Acclaimed poet, novelist, and story writer Chitra Banerjee Divrakaruni’s first book of fiction was published in 1995, and the eleven stories in Arranged Marriage established her as a master of imagery in the short form. They also demonstrated her gift for chronicling female cultural dislocation, and the compound [….]

Birthdays

On this day, February 22, in 1892, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine. When she was still in her teens, she wrote the poem “Renascence” for a poetry contest which immediately catapulted her into fame, mainly because it took 4th place when it was obviously the superior work. An early feminist, her works often used images of female sexuality, and she was not reticent with displaying her own bisexuality. Her work, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, and in 1943 she was awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry. She died of a heart attack in 1950; she was only 58 years old.

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