New Website Aims To Be An iTunes For Poetry
The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets.
The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets.
Matthew Pearl | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books
2009 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe. Instead of celebrating Poe, we often celebrate a caricature of him that has developed over time.
Amy Hungerford | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
The slow sell can't be done pre-publication. It requires -- wait for it -- reading. My last week's reading is a case in point: I read David Mitchell's Black Swan Green.
The Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
At 76, Mr. Roth continues to explore the themes that have defined his work: the eroding of family ties; man's struggle with depression and loneliness ...
John Lundberg | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I've been trying to track down English translations of poems by Herta Muller, the newest Nobel Laureate in Literature, but they are awfully hard to come by (if they even exist).
Alan Black | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books
The first pages I stuffed into my tooth were from Crime and Punishment, and once they had reached a soggy end, I rammed in The Idiot. But Dostoevsky failed to dull the pain.
AP | KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books
STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel's Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, ...
Hugh McGuire | Posted 09.25.2009 | Technology
What matters is how we -- readers, publishers, technologists -- achieve what we want. Paper books aren't the only game in town anymore, and maybe in certain cases they aren't the best game.
Rick Ayers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Books
When I decided to teach Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness at Berkeley High School, it had been out of favor as an appropriate text because it was considered too controversial.
The Huffington Post | Stephanie Harnett | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York
When was the last time you saw Mark Twain on the Q train? Or Faulkner on the F? If you've noticed that great literature has lost out to throw-away t...
Kevin Smokler | Posted 08.04.2009 | Media
The nominees for the Man Booker Prize, the UK's equivalent of the Best Book Oscar, have been announced. Though we love lists/awards/hall-of-fames of all variety we want hide under the sofa when they land in our laps.
John Ridley | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment
The jacket copy for Chester Himes' Run Man Run reads: "Lush sex and stark violence colored black and served up raw by a great Negro writer." This is pretty much a micro-summary of Himes's work.
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
Any idea that I was still a young woman was temporarily dispelled the first few days of the annual Tin House Writers Conference at Reed College in Portland Oregon.
Adrienne Celt | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
The book is complex and sweeping in scope, seeking to tie together not just the disparate lives of its inhabitants, but also several of the most noted international tragedies in recent history.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
There is an old saying in Persian, that every Iranian has written at least one line of poetry in their lifetime -- one can only imagine how many millions of lines have been written this summer alone.
Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media
The "restored" version of A Moveable Feast goes right up there with "New Coke" as a bad conception.
Richard Laermer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media
The success of Angela's Ashes taught us that the most popular stories that seem to resonate with readers and spur new and positive changes are often the true ones.
Vickie Karp | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living
I caught up with journalist/author Olivia Gentile to talk about what it was like to track the story of one of the most exciting and extreme world birders of the 20th century -- Phoebe Snetsinger.
Sarah Schmelling | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media
The term sounds like a make-your-own-course title for a sixth-year undergrad at a progressive college but Facebook Lit has been my creative challenge and my job for a year.
David Finkle | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
Although her title is an eyebrow-raiser, Elizabeth Hawes knows what she's doing. With Camus, a Romance, her new and unconventional work, she isn't simply writing a biography.
Andrew Slack | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment
The confidence demonstrated by Harry Pottercharacter Albus Dumbledore, is something that has been exhibited by the Dr. Kings, the Gandhis, the Aung San Suu Kyi's in facing great tyrannies.
Janice Taylor | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living
In this moment of reflection, I offer you some thoughts from some of our most respected and best philosophers, writers and just plain folk that may help us find our way.
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style
Rage against the Mullah machine fumes in Iran, economy is wrecked, and health care reform is a rubbery roast of ripped tire on the road to political h...
Christina Patterson | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment
This tall, lithe, creature, with toned-as-Michelle-Obama's arms and a living-in-the-Bahamas tan, a creature whose latest internationally bestselling novel has garnered reviews Martin Amis would kill for, can't really mean 'self-loathing,' can she?
John Lundberg | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living