Topic: literary life
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annaleighclark posted a blog entry
POEM: A Blasphemy
A Blasphemy By Maurice Manning You wouldn't have believed it, how the man, a little touched perhaps, set his hands together...
A Blasphemy By Maurice Manning You wouldn't have believed it, how the man, a little touched perhaps, set his hands together...
SamuraiFrog posted a blog entry
Twilight Summarized by a Smartass, Chapter 24
Bella wakes up in the hospital. And... there you go. She's been saved, her mom's fine, it's days later, and once again Bella...
Bella wakes up in the hospital. And... there you go. She's been saved, her mom's fine, it's days later, and once again Bella...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Speaking: Marilynne Robinson
I’ve always been almost offended by the idea of mysticism, because it seems as if it diminishes what we know by every means...
I’ve always been almost offended by the idea of mysticism, because it seems as if it diminishes what we know by every means...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Speaking: Adrienne Rich
Still, as a poet, I choose to sieve up old, sunken words, heave them, dripping with silt, turn them over, and bring them into...
Still, as a poet, I choose to sieve up old, sunken words, heave them, dripping with silt, turn them over, and bring them into...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Round-Up: Literary Indulgences
Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books are both awesome and relevant to today's girls, says The Washington Times. Mati Unt's...
Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books are both awesome and relevant to today's girls, says The Washington Times. Mati Unt's...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books:The Top Ten Magazine Gift Subscriptions
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
SamuraiFrog posted a blog entry
Twilight Summarized by a Smartass, Chapter 23
And we're back to Bella being a passive character whom things just happen to. She blacks out, she dreams about an angel, and...
And we're back to Bella being a passive character whom things just happen to. She blacks out, she dreams about an angel, and...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: Reluctantly Alice
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Quick Hit: Literature and Online Publishing
American Short Fiction is asking folks what online publishing means to them. Matt Bell, a writer who has grown out of the world...
American Short Fiction is asking folks what online publishing means to them. Matt Bell, a writer who has grown out of the world...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Damn You, Nielsen Business Media ...
... for "ceasing operations" for Kirkus Reviews and Editor & Publisher. Some facts that you perhaps forgot when you made...
... for "ceasing operations" for Kirkus Reviews and Editor & Publisher. Some facts that you perhaps forgot when you made...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Second Round for The Second Sex: A New Translation of de Beauvoir's Masterpiece
Back when I read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, in the very early days of this website, I had this to say about it: This...
Back when I read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, in the very early days of this website, I had this to say about it: This...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Interview: Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
Cued by the publication of their newest book, I had the very great pleasure of interviewing two of my literary heroes, Richard...
Cued by the publication of their newest book, I had the very great pleasure of interviewing two of my literary heroes, Richard...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: War Talk
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: Sugar
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
A Year in Reading: William H. Gass
Over at The Millions, William H. Gass adds his pick to the Year in Reading series, which invites writers to choose their...
Over at The Millions, William H. Gass adds his pick to the Year in Reading series, which invites writers to choose their...
SamuraiFrog posted a blog entry
Twilight Summarized by a Smartass, Chapter 22
Why does it seem like I've been between chapters 21 and 24 for the last 10 weeks? Did she start the numbering over again, or...
Why does it seem like I've been between chapters 21 and 24 for the last 10 weeks? Did she start the numbering over again, or...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: Fugitive Pieces
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
First-Time Authors: A Roundtable
In this month's issue of Hobart, I got the chance to host a (digital) roundtable with two talented authors: Katie Bowler and...
In this month's issue of Hobart, I got the chance to host a (digital) roundtable with two talented authors: Katie Bowler and...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Read Local
In the current issue of The American Prospect, I have an article about how independent publishers and literary communities are...
In the current issue of The American Prospect, I have an article about how independent publishers and literary communities are...
SamuraiFrog posted a blog entry
Twilight Summarized by a Smartass, Chapter 21
I have to hand it to Stephenie Meyer with this chapter. I mean it. I really mean it.See, when we last left Bella, she was...
I have to hand it to Stephenie Meyer with this chapter. I mean it. I really mean it.See, when we last left Bella, she was...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Things That Are True About Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey:
It is a clever satire of Gothic literature, a particularly interesting project, given that "novels," or full-length books of...
It is a clever satire of Gothic literature, a particularly interesting project, given that "novels," or full-length books of...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Jane Austen Defends the Novel: Or, 'Take That, You Feeble-Minded Naysayers!'
I can't tell you how much I adore Jane Austen novels. I'm in the thick of Northanger Abbey, and it's a total delight--full...
I can't tell you how much I adore Jane Austen novels. I'm in the thick of Northanger Abbey, and it's a total delight--full...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
The Ghosts of History, Fiction
Stephen Greenblatt calls Hillary Mantel's Wolf Hall "a startling achievement, brilliant...," but it must be said that his...
Stephen Greenblatt calls Hillary Mantel's Wolf Hall "a startling achievement, brilliant...," but it must be said that his...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: The Autobiography of Henry VIII: with Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Speaking: E.B. White
In 1916 to hold a job on a daily paper,a columnist was expected to be something of a scholar and a poet--or if not a poet at...
In 1916 to hold a job on a daily paper,a columnist was expected to be something of a scholar and a poet--or if not a poet at...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: Archy and Mehitabel
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
SamuraiFrog posted a blog entry
Twilight Summarized by a Smartass, Chapter 20
Belle wakes up in a hotel room in Phoenix. Edward and Carlisle have lost James. Alice has a vision that makes it pretty obvious...
Belle wakes up in a hotel room in Phoenix. Edward and Carlisle have lost James. Alice has a vision that makes it pretty obvious...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Bookish Joy ...
... can be found here. Enjoy the feast, friends. Hat tip (and image credit) to Jacket Copy, the LA Times book blog. (...)
... can be found here. Enjoy the feast, friends. Hat tip (and image credit) to Jacket Copy, the LA Times book blog. (...)
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Round-Up: Literary Indulgences
Alice Munro's dark side. "Why Martin Amis won't shut up about feminism." The Toronto Star article begins with a talk Amis...
Alice Munro's dark side. "Why Martin Amis won't shut up about feminism." The Toronto Star article begins with a talk Amis...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Joan Didion
"I did not see Didion’s style as belonging to Didion; I saw it simply as the way sentences were written before I was born."...
"I did not see Didion’s style as belonging to Didion; I saw it simply as the way sentences were written before I was born."...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
National Book Awards: Fiction
I began the evening cheering for Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of American Salvage (Wayne State University Press), even though I...
I began the evening cheering for Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of American Salvage (Wayne State University Press), even though I...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
National Book Awards: Nonfiction
And the award goes to T.J. Stiles for the The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. A rather timely tome, don't...
And the award goes to T.J. Stiles for the The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. A rather timely tome, don't...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
National Book Awards: Poetry
Keith Waldrop, author of Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press) wins the National Book Award in...
Keith Waldrop, author of Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press) wins the National Book Award in...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
National Book Awards: Flannery O'Connor Is the Best of the Best; Stitches Undone
No surprise here: The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor won the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction tonight, in a...
No surprise here: The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor won the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction tonight, in a...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
A Literature Emerges
Brought up on a forced diet of Shakespeare and Dickens, they plotted to throw the ‘English Department’ out of universities...
Brought up on a forced diet of Shakespeare and Dickens, they plotted to throw the ‘English Department’ out of universities...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Dzanc Books Takes a European Tour
Excellent news: The journal Absinthe: New European Literature is now an imprint of Dzanc Books. From the nonprofit publisher's...
Excellent news: The journal Absinthe: New European Literature is now an imprint of Dzanc Books. From the nonprofit publisher's...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Bonnie Jo Campbell, Interviewed
There's a nice interview with Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of American Salvage, over at Maud Newton's site. Campbell meets up...
There's a nice interview with Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of American Salvage, over at Maud Newton's site. Campbell meets up...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Su Tong is a Winner
The Boat to Redemption is both a bestseller and a literary prizewinner, as it was just awarded the Man Asian book prize (worth...
The Boat to Redemption is both a bestseller and a literary prizewinner, as it was just awarded the Man Asian book prize (worth...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Quick Hit: The Memoir
Laura Miller at Salon offers an entertaining and interesting review of Ben Yagoda's new book, Memoir: A History, putting the...
Laura Miller at Salon offers an entertaining and interesting review of Ben Yagoda's new book, Memoir: A History, putting the...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Cue The Collagist
The new issue of The Collagist is up and out, and with it comes a vibrant collection of poems, stories, novel excerpts,...
The new issue of The Collagist is up and out, and with it comes a vibrant collection of poems, stories, novel excerpts,...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
America Finally Perks Up to Mahmoud Darwish
If anyone doubted that a contemporary poet could be both a celebrity and a literary critic's darling, then I offer Mahmoud...
If anyone doubted that a contemporary poet could be both a celebrity and a literary critic's darling, then I offer Mahmoud...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Breaking: The Short Story Lives
While I grow weary of articles that keep 'rediscovering' the short story, it's nice to see masters of the form elevated in...
While I grow weary of articles that keep 'rediscovering' the short story, it's nice to see masters of the form elevated in...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
I Love Edward
Edward P. Jones, that is. And so does Neely Tucker at The Washington Post, it seems--she wrote a beautiful and thoughtful...
Edward P. Jones, that is. And so does Neely Tucker at The Washington Post, it seems--she wrote a beautiful and thoughtful...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Choose Books: The Lost Massey Lectures
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
Why Choose Books for your gifts this holiday season? Glad you asked. It's because there are few things more fun than giving...
annaleighclark posted a blog entry
Quick Hit: Literary Racialicious
If you're not reading it already, there's a fascinating discussion going on over at Racialicious about African American...
If you're not reading it already, there's a fascinating discussion going on over at Racialicious about African American...
