by | Jun 30, 2021 | Literary News
from Prospect Busting the Hemingway myth A new documentary breaks new ground by exploring the American writer’s mental health and gender fluidity—but it still doesn’t go far enough By Lucinda Smyth Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary. Credit: BBC In 1949, Ernest...
by | Mar 26, 2021 | Literary News
from The Los Angeles Times Beverly Cleary, beloved and prolific author of children’s books, dies at 104 By VALERIE J. NELSON With witty yet economic prose and a gift for recalling the inner emotions of childhood, Beverly Cleary wove timeless tales that took young...
by | Mar 22, 2021 | Literary News
from The New York Times Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? By Ben Libman “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking &...
by | Mar 4, 2021 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Marie Claire Tia Mowry Shares Her All-Time Favorite Books in ‘Shelf Portrait’ She has a gorgeous library in her bedroom! By Marie Claire Tia Mowry’s chic library, located in her room (a dream!), is filled with a variety of books alongside her...
by | Jan 2, 2021 | Literary News, Weirdness
from The Wall Street Journal Even Homer Gets Mobbed A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’ By Meghan Cox Gurdon A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers...
by | Dec 24, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Atlantic What Drives Writers to Drink? Seeking in the eloquent benders of Dylan Thomas and Herman Mankiewicz an answer to an ancient riddle by JAMES PARKER A portrait of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) sitting in an unidentified bar in the early...
