by | Jan 17, 2009 | Literary News
from Stephen Elliot’s TheRumpus.net THE EDITOR’S DESK: What’s Been Going On Well, we’re getting ready to launch this bad boy. I know for a lot of regular readers the site is already launched, but things are going to be different around here once Obama is sworn...
by | Jan 14, 2009 | Literary News
from New Scientist Novels help to uphold social order WHY does storytelling endure across time and cultures? Perhaps the answer lies in our evolutionary roots. A study of the way that people respond to Victorian literature hints that novels act as a social glue,...
by | Jan 13, 2009 | Literary News
from the NY Times Fiction Reading Increases for Adults By MOTOKO RICH After years of bemoaning the decline of a literary culture in the United States, the National Endowment for the Arts says in a report that it now believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in...
by | Jan 10, 2009 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK Stephen King fan publishes Shining’s Jack Torrance’s novel Alison Flood guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 January 2009 16.27 GMT Article history Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Photograph: Ronald...
by | Jan 10, 2009 | Literary News
from the New York Observer Have Dildo, Will Write A lively anthology takes the temperature of the female libido BY MEREDITH BRYAN Getty Images Behind The Bedroom Door:Getting It, Giving It, Loving It, Missing It Edited by Paula Derrow Delacorte, 334 pages, $25 In her...
by | Jan 7, 2009 | Literary News
from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Running Advertisements in Novels What if Madame Bovary sold readers her favorite fabric softener? Last year editor Tom Engelhardt wondered why books never utilized advertising, writing: “The ad, after all, has colonized...
