http://kwgs.org en http://kwgs.org/post/50-reasons-reread-50-books-you-havent-touched-high-school <p>Sure, you loved "The Catcher in the Rye" at the age of 16...but would you still love it? You appreciated "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Cannery Row" way back when, but would that still be the case today? And on the other hand, if the plays of Ibsen or Shakespeare didn't exactly knock you out during that long-ago sophomore year of college, do you think they'd still miss the mark? Or might they be worth another shot? Wed, 15 May 2013 21:43:17 +0000 Rich Fisher 39121 at http://kwgs.org "50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School" http://kwgs.org/post/running-rift-novel <p>On this edition of ST, we speak by phone with Naomi Benaron about her debut novel, "Running the Rift," which appeared in soft-cover back in October, and which was awarded the Bellwether Prize in 2010 (which is given biennially to an unpublished novel that confronts social issues). "Running the Rift" is set in Rwanda; it begins in 1994 and runs, as a narrative, through 1998. Thus it takes place in a country that knew horrific genocide in a devastatingly hellish conflict that pitted neighbor against neighbor. Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:27:38 +0000 Rich Fisher 32015 at http://kwgs.org "Running the Rift: A Novel"