The story The Most Human Part of You, by Richard Kelly Kemick, a National Magazine Award-winning writer from Calgary, Alta., was found to share elements with the story The Dog of the Marriage by the American writer Amy Hempel. As a result, Kemick’s story, as well as a second work, have been pulled from The Journey Prize Stories, an anthology that features the best fiction published in Canadian literary journals and magazines.
Boys Are Being Bullied For Dancing Ballet – It’s An Epidemic, Actually
The statistics on boys, ballet and bullying are staggering. According to a study by dance sociologists Doug Risner and Maggie Allesee of Wayne State University in Detroit, 93 percent of boys involved in ballet reported “teasing and name calling,” and 68 percent experienced “verbal or physical harassment.” Eleven percent said they were victims of physical harm at the hands of people who targeted them because they are boys who study dance.
Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
The Swedish Academy cited the 62-year-old British author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and The Buried Giant for “novels of great emotional force [in which he has] uncovered the abyss beneath the illusory sense of connection with the world.”