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Guia Cortassa
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Literary Skeletons Out of the Closet
Time to get all the literary skeletons out of the closet: over at Ploughshares, Rebecca Makkai confesses her unutterable secrets about books never read and authors she’s confused—and you can relax, you’re not the only one getting distracted at readings.
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The Partisan Review, Digitized
The Partisan Review, printed from 1934 to 2004, marked 69 years of cultural history in the US, with notable contributors such as Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kafka, Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Marge Piercy, Jean-Paul Sartre,…
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Writing Workshops Defined
If you’re ready to join a writing workshop or you’re thinking about it, you’ll surely want to know what may happen to you while attending one. That’s why Amy Klein compiled on a handy glossary of commonly-uttered workshop criticisms along…
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Handwriting Matters
A new scientific study has demonstrated that learning to write by hand before learning to type helps in developing children’s brains, and the benefits stretch from childhood to adulthood memory-wise. Psychologist (and Rumpus interviewee) Maria Konnikova explains on the New York Times: Cursive…
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Tripping on Pronouns
Even if you know what is a pronoun and what “gender” means, you’ll want to read this linguistic time-tripping essay on the link that ties the part of speech to the noun class by Gretchen McCulloch over at The Toast.
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The Poetry Archive Anew
Poetryarchive.org, the online poetry resource founded by retired British poet laureate Andrew Motion and the recording producer Richard Carrington a decade ago, has just been relaunched. In the Guardian, Motion talks about the origins of the website and it new redesign: Our original…
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Literally in Pictures
“Literally” is a photographic project by Steve Kenward. Each shot in the series is a portrait of an independent bookseller in his shop—head over to Kenward’s website to see all the pictures.17
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Ambitious Book Clubs
According to Nicole Bernier, reading groups and book clubs are more and more becoming heavy influencers of the publishing industry, remaining the best social way to read and discuss a book. “But the strength of the book-club phenomenon is that…
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Great American Novels and Wars
In his newly published The Novel: a Biography, Michael Schmidt takes some time to study how the wars of the 20th century shaped the great American novel, citing Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, and Joseph Heller among those that best dealt…
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Sing for the Novel
In Remembrance of The Novel (d. 2014) Who after supplanting the Epic Enduring that “damned mob of scribbling women” And surviving Finnegans Wake Finally succumbed to the Internet Following the latest death sentence pronouncement for the novel, Matt Siedel posted…
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Public Images
The Metropolitan Museum of New York just released into the public domain more than 394,000 images from its collection. Dan Piepenbring filtered through the newly released database, sorting to show only books, and published a selection of the most interesting…
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Trigger Warning Literature
Requests by students at University of California Santa Barbara, Oberlin College, Rutgers University, University of Michigan, George Washington University, and other institutions for ““trigger warnings” on classroom literature has sparked an interesting debate. The New York Times has the full…