by | Sep 15, 2011 | Literary News
from NPR Things We Say Today And Owe To Shakespeare by EYDER PERALTA A 20-year-old girl named Becky from London posted a picture of one of the pages of her Moleskine notebook on Tumblr. It has, as they say, gone viral and less than a week later is making waves across...
by | Sep 14, 2011 | Literary News
from Abe’s Books Rapper 50 Cent loses to author Chinua Achebe I love this story. Super tough rapper 50 Cent has just had his candy ass handed to him by 80-year-old Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. It appears 50 Cent had not read Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s...
by | Sep 10, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from The New York Times [ click to read at NYTimes.com ]
by | Sep 10, 2011 | Literary News
from Shelf Awareness Obituary Note: Michael Stern Hart Michael Stern Hart, founder and head of Project Gutenberg and considered by many to have invented the e-book, died on Tuesday. He was 64. According to Dr. Gregory B. Newby, Hart told this story of how he had the...
by | Sep 5, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News, Projects
from The New York Times [ click to read at NYTimes.com ]
by | Sep 4, 2011 | Literary News, Mirth
from BuzzFeed Roald Dahl’s Weird And Hilarious Letter To A Class Of Children CULTURE BUZZ: When a group of students sent a letter to Roald Dahl asking him questions about his short story collection “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More,” this was the...
