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Havre de Grace

Published on April 8, 2011 By B. E. Hopkins

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve come across several articles about New Yorker short story writer Mavis Gallant, including the New York Review Books Classics Web page on Paris Stories and a piece on Jhumpa Lahiri’s Granta interview from 2009 (the link includes a rare video of Gallant reading from her work). These naturally [...]

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The Sophie Kerr Prize

Published on February 5, 2007 By B. E. Hopkins

In 1997, I won the Sophie Kerr Prize at Washington College. The prize is the nation’s largest undergraduate literary award, and it is given to the graduating senior deemed to have the highest literary potential in his class. Since 1997 was also the 30th anniversary of the prize, I received some media attention. Profiles on [...]

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