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New Website Aims To Be An iTunes For Poetry

John Lundberg | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Emily Dickinson, poetryspeaks.com, Itunes, John Lundberg, Lifestyle, Hobbies, Edgar-Allen-Poe, Reading, Poetry, Poetryspeaks, Living News
John Lundberg

The new website PoetrySpeaks is aiming to serve as a social networking hub and online marketplace for poets.

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Top Five Myths About Edgar Allan Poe

Matthew Pearl | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Literature, Literary Myths, Edgar Allan Poe Myths, Books News
Matthew Pearl

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.

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Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter

Amy Hungerford | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: University, Literature, Book Marketing, Professors, Textbooks, Yale University, Jonathan Lethem, David Mitchell, Reading, Elizabeth Strout, Motherless Brooklyn, Black Swan Green, Books News
Amy Hungerford

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.

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Philip Roth On The Humbling, The Internet, And Nora Roberts

The Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature, Authors, Internet, Nobel Prize, Writers, Nora Roberts, Books, Writing, Modern Fiction, James Patterson, Philip Roth the Humbling, American Fiction, Philip Roth Interview, The Humbling, Philip Roth, Books News

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 ...

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The Last Poet To Win The Nobel Prize

John Lundberg | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Fiction, Prose, Nobel Prize, Poetry, Wislawa Szymborska, Literature, Herta Muller, World War II, Poet, John Lundberg, Living News
John Lundberg

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).

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Books are Good for Toothache

Alan Black | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Classics, Kindle, Books, Dentist, Literature, E-Books, Classic Books, Toothache, Books News
Alan Black

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.

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Write On

Rita Mae Brown | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Rubyfruit Jungle, Writing, Authors, Books, Lesbian Fiction, Literature, Books News
Rita Mae Brown

"Pervert" and "moral degenerate" were a few of the printable insults hurled at my youthful head in 1973 when Bantam Books reprinted Rubyfruit Jungle.

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: Herta Muller

AP | KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature Prizes, Sweden, Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates, Nobel, Nobel Literature, Amos Oz, Books, Literature, Nobel Prize Winner, Literary Prizes, Books News

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, ...

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What Is a Book?

Hugh McGuire | Posted 09.25.2009 | Technology

Read More: Literature, Iphone, App, Publishing, Apple, Books, Ebook, Media, Bunny Munro, Nick Cave, Apt Studios, Technology News
Hugh McGuire

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.

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Speaking Truth to Power: The Mythology of Imperialism

Rick Ayers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature, Academia, Imperialism, Critical Theory, Orientalism, Books News
Rick Ayers

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.

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Bringing Crime And Punishment Back To The NYC Commute

The Huffington Post | Stephanie Harnett | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Literature, Community Service, All for Good, Donate, Donate Books, Choose What You Read NY, Service, Subway, Books, Classics, Commute, Donations, New York, New York News

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...

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The Shelf Talker: Disco, Beer and Rubix Cubes

Kevin Smokler | Posted 08.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Newyork, Man Booker Prize, 1980s, Books, Wildstyle, 1970s, Beer, Booker Prize, Media News
Kevin Smokler

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.

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If He Hollers: Remembering Chester Himes

John Ridley | Posted 08.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Literature, Himes, James Baldwin, Harlem Cycle, Black Literature, Run Man Run, The Harlem Cycle, Chester Himes, Entertainment News
John Ridley

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.

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Age, Writing and Workshops

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Tin House Books, Portland Oregon, American Literature, Media, Tin House, Career Change, Oregon, Writing Tips, The Balanced Life, Literary Culture, Fiction, Poetry, Living News
Marcia DeSanctis

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.

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War and Pieces: A Review of Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows

Adrienne Celt | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Iraq War, Politics, Colonialism, Nagasaki, Book Review, Cia, Pakistan, Orange Prize for Fiction, Pakistani Literature, Novels, Globalization, India, Atomic Bomb, Burnt Shadows, Living News
Adrienne Celt

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.

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Voices of Protest: The Iranian Word

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Literature, Islam, Theocracy, Dissent, Iranian, Mahnaz Badihian, Iranian Election, Iranian Poetry, Poetry, Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Politics, Persian Poetry, Iran Protests, Rooftop Protest, Esmail Kho'i, War Poetry, Iranian Poets, Ayatollah Khomeini, Islamic Republic, Political Poetry, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

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.

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Fast Moves with A Moveable Feast

Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Sean Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, Media News
Thomas Lipscomb

The "restored" version of A Moveable Feast goes right up there with "New Coke" as a bad conception.

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Tell The Truth: You're a Real Storyteller

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Literature, Limerick, Books, Laermer.com, American Literature, Pulitzer Prize, Angela's Ashes, Frank Mccourt, Autobiograhies, Ireland, Prospective Customer Acquisition, Customers, Reading, Truth Commission, Media News
Richard Laermer

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.

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Third Screen: It's Violent, Dangerous, and Beautiful. It's ... Bird Watching

Vickie Karp | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Preservationist, Naturalist, Adventure, Ecology, Extreme Sports, Exotic Travel, Green, Environment, Birds, Bird-Watching, Travel, Phoebe Snetsinger, Living News
Vickie Karp

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.

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Every Status Update Tells a Story: Twitter Novels and Facebook Lit

Sarah Schmelling | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Facebook Parody, Literature, Oscar Wilde, Facebook Lit, Twitter, Jane Austen, Maidens Who Don't Float, Facebook, Movies, Movie Lines, Social Media, First Draft Movie Lines, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Parody, Facebook Status, Mark Twain, Ophelia, Media News
Sarah Schmelling

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.

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Writing Under the Influence, Living Under the Influence

David Finkle | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Literature, Exile and the Kingdom, Elizabeth Hawes, Philosophy, Built of Books, The Stranger, Thomas Wright, The Plague, Albert Camus, A Happy /Death, Biography, Oscar's Books, Philosophy of the Absurd, The First Man, Entertainment, Camus--a Romance, Memoir, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Living News
David Finkle

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.

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What Would Dumbledore Do?

Andrew Slack | Posted 08.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Literature, Cultrual Acupuncture, Social Justice, Gay Rights, JK Rowling, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Alliance, Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Entertainment News
Andrew Slack

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.

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Michael Jackson: Reflections On The Complexity of Being Human

Janice Taylor | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Alice in Wonderland, Michael Jackson, Plastic Surgery, Human Beings, Janice Taylor, Lewis Carroll, Henry David Thoreau, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Cheshire Cat, Healthy Living, Literature, Living News
Janice Taylor

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.

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Define "Urban Lit" ...

Charles D. Ellison | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Literature, Urban Policy, Ghettos, Ghetto, American Literature, Black, Reading, African Americans, Urban, Style News
Charles D. Ellison

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...

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Interview With Zoe Heller: 'I End Up Loathing Myself'

Christina Patterson | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal, The Believers, Interview, Literature, The Independent, Author, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, British, Q&A, Entertainment News
Christina Patterson

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?

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