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2000 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2000. Events *February – El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookstore takes over the ''Teatro Gran Splendid'' in Buenos Aires, converting it for use as retail space. *February 13 – The final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip is published. *March 14 – Stephen King's novella ''Riding the Bullet'' is published in e-book format only, as the world's first mass-market electronic book. *September 26 – English politician and writer Jeffrey Archer is charged with perjury, and on the same day opens in the title role of his own courtroom drama, ''The Accused''. *December 15 – In a landmark censorship case, '' Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice)'', the Supreme Court of Canada rules that Canada Customs has no authority to make judgments on the permissibility of material being shipped to retailers, only to confiscate material specifically ruled by the courts to constitute an offence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Ateneo Grand Splendid
El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2008, ''The Guardian'' placed it as the second most beautiful bookshop in the world. In 2019, it was named the "world's most beautiful bookstore" by the ''National Geographic''. Overview Situated on Santa Fe Avenue in Barrio Norte, the building was designed by architects Peró and Torres Armengol for impresario Max Glücksmann (1875-1946), and opened as a theatre called ''Teatro Gran Splendid'' in May 1919. The eclecticist building features ceiling frescoes painted by the Italian artist Nazareno Orlandi and caryatids sculpted by Troiano Troiani, whose work also graces the cornice along the Palacio de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. The theatre had a seating capacity of 1,050, and staged a variety of performances, including appearances by the tango artists Carlos Gardel, Francisco Canaro, Roberto Firpo and Ignacio Corsini. Glücksmann started his own radio station in 1924 (''Radio Splendid''), whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada Customs
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA; french: Agence des services frontaliers du Canada, ''ASFC'') is a federal law enforcement agency that is responsible for border control (i.e. protection and surveillance), immigration enforcement, and customs services in Canada. The CBSA is responsible to Parliament through the minister of public safety and emergency preparedness, currently Marco Mendicino, who took office following the 2021 election, and is under the direction of the president of the Canada Border Services Agency, Erin O’Gorman. The Agency was created on December 12, 2003, by an order-in-council that amalgamated the customs function of the now-defunct Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, the enforcement function of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (now known as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada), and the port-of-entry examination function of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The CBSA's creation was formalized by the ''Canada Border Services Agency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Beaumont
__NOTOC__ Matthew Beaumont is a British novelist and former copywriter. Beaumont made his debut in 2000 with the comic novel, '' e. The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers'', which consists entirely of e-mails composed by the staff of one advertising office. A recent example of an epistolary novel, it is generally recognised as one of the first e-mail novels. For the BBC, Beaumont created the storyline of the alternate reality game, '' Jamie Kane'' (2005). Novels *'' e'' (2000) *'' The e Before Christmas'' (2000) *'' The Book, the Film, the T-shirt'' (2002) *'' Staying Alive'' (2004) *'' Where There's a Will'' (2007) *'' Small World'' (2008) *''e Squared'' (2009) See also *Carl Steadman's "Two Solitudes", a 1995 e-mail story *List of contemporary epistolary novels An epistolary novel tells its story through correspondence, letters, telegrams, and the like. Here are some examples of contemporary epistolary novels: {{DEFAULTSORT:Contemporary epistolary novels Episto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Angel On The Roof
''The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks'' (2000) is a collection of short story, short stories by Russell Banks. It consists of a total of thirty-one previously published stories, including twenty-two stories that appeared in earlier short story collections, along with nine that were previously uncollected. Contents Twenty-two of the thirty-one stories that Banks selected for this volume were published in four earlier collections, although Banks writes that many of the stories "have been revised for this edition". The previously collected stories were originally published in the following volumes by Banks: ''Searching for Survivors'' (New York: Fiction Collective/ Braziller, 1975); ''Trailerpark'' (New York: HarperCollins, 1981); ''Success Stories'' (New York: HarperCollins, 1986). In his "Note" appended at the end of this volume, Russell Banks writes the following: Previously collected stories The following is a list of the previously collected stories republis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Banks
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships". Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Life and career Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He is the son of Florence (née Taylor), a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Look To Windward
''Look to Windward'' is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 2000. It is Banks' sixth published novel to feature the Culture. The book's dedication reads: "For the Gulf War Veterans". The novel takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem ''The Waste Land'': ''Look to Windward'' is loosely a sequel to ''Consider Phlebas'', Banks's first published Culture novel. ''Consider Phlebas'' took its name from the following line in the poem and dealt with the events of the Idiran-Culture War; ''Look to Windward'' deals with the results of the war on those who lived through it. Plot summary The Chelgrians are a race of centaur-like cat aliens with three hind-limbs and a humanoid catlike torso. Major Quilan, a Chelgrian, has lost the will to live after the death of his wife, killed during the Chelgrian civil war that resulted from the Culture's interference. A high-ranked Chelgrian priest offers Quilan the chance to avenge the Chelgrians who d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hiding Place (Azzopardi Novel)
''The Hiding Place'' was the debut novel of Trezza Azzopardi, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a Literary award, literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United King ... in 2000. It tells the story of the six daughters of a Maltese family growing up in Cardiff through the eyes of the youngest, Dolores Gauci. She describes her childhood life. References 2000 British novels Novels by Trezza Azzopardi Novels set in Cardiff Anglo-Welsh novels Picador (imprint) books 2000 debut novels {{2000s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trezza Azzopardi
Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961) is a Welsh writer, who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other literary prizes. Early life Azzopardi was born in Cardiff to a Maltese father and a Welsh mother. She studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, and currently works as a lecturer there. She also has an MA in Film and Television studies from the University of Derby. Career Azzopardi's novel ''The Hiding Place'', is about Maltese immigrants living in the 1960s. Unusually for a first novel, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000. It also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second novel, ''Remember Me'', was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year. "Winterton Blue" was longlisted for the 2008 Wales Book of the Year. She also writes short stories and performs readings for BBC radio. Her books have been translated into 17 languages. Azzopardi currently lives in Norwich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Her Infinite Variety
''Her Infinite Variety'' is a novel by Louis Auchincloss first published in 2000 about a career woman of the first half of the 20th century. The title is a quotation from Shakespeare's ''Antony and Cleopatra'': "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety" (Act II, scene 2). Plot summary Born in New York in 1917, attractive Clarabel (Longcope) Hoyt, the heroine of the book, is encouraged by her ambitious mother to marry "a great man," a man able and willing to make a success of his life. She succeeds in persuading her daughter to end her relationship with a young teacher with a promising career ahead of him and marry into one of the pre-eminent, old money families instead. Eventually succumbing to her mother's wishes, Clara, still a virgin, marries Trevor Hoyt, a banker, and in due course their daughter Sandra is born. Clara, however, is not content spending her husband's money and living a life of luxury and ease. When her old school friend Polly suggests that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Auchincloss
Louis Stanton Auchincloss (; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010)Holcomb B. Noble and Charles McGrath''The New York Times''. Retrieved on January 27, 2010. was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. in He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked. Early life Born in Lawrence, New York, Auchincloss was the son of Priscilla Dixon (née Stanton) and Joseph Howland Auchincloss. His brother was Howland Auchincloss and his paternal grandfather, John Winthrop Auchincloss, was the brother of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss (father of James C. Auchincloss) and Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (father of Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr.). He grew up among the priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blind Assassin
''The Blind Assassin'' is a novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. The book is set in the fictional Ontario town of Port Ticonderoga and in Toronto. It is narrated from the present day, referring to previous events that span the twentieth century but mostly the 1930s and 1940s. It is a work of historical fiction with the major events of Canadian history forming an important backdrop, for example, the On-to-Ottawa Trek and a 1934 Communist rally at Maple Leaf Gardens. Greater verisimilitude is given by a series of newspaper articles commenting on events and on the novel's characters from a distance. The work was awarded the Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001 and also received a number of other nominations. Plot summary The novel's protagonist, Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, grow up well-off but motherless in a small town in southern Ontario. As an old woman, Iris recalls the events and relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
