THE SPRING THING
“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” — Mark Twain
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© Susan Slapin
“The song a robin sings/Through years of endless springs …” — “Stella By Starlight” (Victor Young & Ned Washington, composers ~ © Sony/ATV Music)
© Susan Slapin
Of this shot with a resplendent Northern Cascades defining all else, Susan Slapin of Orcas Island, WA writes: “I love photography, in case you haven’t noticed. This morning — lots o’ birds here! Seagulls walking on North Beach, on Crescent Beach — herons and Canadian geese.”
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left out in the rain   stone buddha    clad in robe of green
— Gary Gach
The Buddhist Channel
palms joined
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The 2010 PEN-Faulkner Awards
May 6-7, Washington, DC
The Folger Shakespeare Library
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Photos by Claire Duggan
From left to right: emcee Gwen Ifill, finalist Lorrie Moore, finalist Lorraine López, finalist Colson Whitehead, judge Kyoko Mori, winner Sherman Alexie, judge Rilla Askew, finalist Barbara Kingsolver, and judge Al Young. | Photo courtesy of Claire Duggan
Read the story behind the shot at PEN/Faulkner Foundation.org
View the Folger Shakespeare Library’s photostream at Flickr
Previous announcement of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Awards for Fiction at AlYoung.org
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Sherman Alexie: Winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award for War Dances.
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Before the awards ceremony begins at Washington, DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library, PEN-Faulkner judge Al Young signs citations he has composed for honored writers Colson Whitehead and Sherman Alexie.
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Audio clip of Al Young’s citation for War Dances, winner Sherman Alexie‘s “rollicking, bittersweet gem of a book.”
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Popular DC dance therapist Kris O’Shea pins the corsage to Al’s lapel while her out-of-frame spouse — novelist Alan Cheuse of NPR book review fame — looks on.
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Diane Alexie and authors Sherman Alexie and Lorrie Moore captured in timeless black & white at the 2010 PEN-Faulkner Awards reception.
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Renowned broadcast journalist Gwen Ifill and PEN-Faulkner judge and author Rilla Askew meet and greet.
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Novelist and judge Kyoko Mori and newly elected PEN-Faulkner president Lisa Page swap pleasantries with two excited guests.
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PEN-Faulkner Award judges Kyoko Mori and Al Young who, up until Awards weekend, had only known each other through writings, books, emails and telephone conferences.
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The Folger Shakespeare Library dining room.
Colson Whitehead and Sherman Alexie
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Novelist-biographer-memoirist Beverly Lowry and daughter Melissa with Al Young at the 2010 PEN-Faulkner Awards.
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