by | May 11, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness Birth of the Cool: Minnesota I know, Miles, you didn’t have rural southern Minnesota in mind when you blew your classic mute on your Birth of the Cool sessions in New York, circa 1949. But it’s the way the paper-thin ice forms on the...
by | May 5, 2009 | Literary News
from the Dracula Feed at Blogspot Dracula Begins Experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary entry on the day...
by | May 5, 2009 | Literary News
from The LA Times Marilyn French dies at 79; author of feminist classic ‘The Women’s Room’ The 1977 novel, which captured the frustration and fury of a generation of women fed up with society’s traditional conceptions of their role, sold 20...
by | May 4, 2009 | Literary News
Amazing this has not happened yet in all of British history. Amazing. -Editor from the UK Guardian Carol Ann Duffy becomes first female poet laureate Duffy takes poetry’s most prestigious job, succeeding Andrew Motion, as a standard-bearer for women poets Alison...
by | Apr 22, 2009 | Literary News
from the LA Times ‘Who Is Mark Twain?’ Previous uncollected stories and essays drawn mostly from his papers and correspondence show why he is so beloved. By Tim Rutten April 22, 2009 When he died 99 years ago this week, Mark Twain was this...
by | Apr 21, 2009 | Literary News
from National Public Radio And The Pulitzer For Forgotten Fiction Goes To… Here’s a list of Pulitzer novels we’ve forgotten. Add your own forgotten fiction in the comment field below — or tell us what we’ve missed.Our Unscientific List Of...
