E. Annie Proulx

Brokeback Mountain Opera Coming to New York

Charles Wuorinen.
Nina Roberts
Charles Wuorinen.

Brokeback Mountain is coming back to New York, this time in the form of an opera.

The New York City Opera has commissioned American composer and New York native Charles Wuorinen to adapt the E. Annie Proulx short story and subsequent Oscar-winning film for its 2013 spring season. It will be Mr. Wuorinen’s second world premiere at City Opera, his first being an adaptation in 2004 of Salman Rushdie’s Sea of Stoires.  read more »

Old West and New Collide Amid Cowpoke McMansions

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Observatory

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Lie Down Where Philip Roth Did; Swatting Flies at Literary Camps

Years ago, a poet who was staying at Yaddo, the bucolic artists' and writers' colony in the Adironda  read more »