Daleen Berry on Pearl S. Buck Writer's Workshop and Other News from Around the Web

The Pearl S. Buck Writers Workshop

Thanks to Eddy Pendarvis for forwarding along this interesting blog post, "What Pearl S. Buck, Blueberries and Bovines Have in Common," which begins as follows:

This morning I woke up from a dream in which I was trying to find a colorful clause to go with the verb “giggled,” as in “like a little girl.

That’s what happens when you go to a writing workshop taught by Jim Minick, author of several books, including The Blueberry Years. (While at Jim’s site, be sure to check out his wife Sarah’s baskets; they are exquisite!)

The workshop was held yesterday, in conjunction with Allegheny Echoes, at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, W.Va. And it was wonderful, educational and hopefully made all of us better, stronger writers.  

Continue reading on Daleen Berry's Blog.

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What's on Your Summer Reading List?

The Good Earth is on the Globe & Mail summer reading list. 
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Toronto's Globe and Mail has published a selection of its "Reader's picks for sizzling summer reads" and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth is one of the recommendations, in this the 80th anniversary of its receipt of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.  Arguably the most prestigious prize in American letters, did you know that the Pulitzer Prize in a category can even be withheld in any given year if no work is deemed worthy of the prize?  Globe and Mail reader Mary N wrote:

The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck. Although it is more than 80 years old, the story is wonderful. I can read this over and over again. The characters are strong and the life lessons still apply today. 

Clearly the book still resonates and sells.  Oprah's Book Club published a new edition in 2004, and a new "Enriched Classic Edition was released by Simon & Schuster just a year later.  This type of reading list appears often at the beginning of summer.  Some contain only recently published books, but it is also common to publish lists generated by readers, authors, or other famous people.  Have you seen other lists with books by or about Pearl Buck on them?