literature
By George Orwell
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and […]
Michael Chabon, who you may know as author of Wonder Boys, briefly discusses the movie adaptation of his book, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: In the Works
If you haven’t read it, get it now.
This is incredible. Though not yet perfect, the system does a pretty good job of visually mapping locations from books on a map.
Gutenkarte is an effort to map books by MetaCarta. The website takes text from books in Project Gutenberg, searches them for the appearance of place names, and plots them on a map […]
The Penguin Podcast is a fortnightly episode of book extracts, author interviews and features from Penguin Books UK.
Surprisingly enough, podcasts from Penguin. The most recent edition has excerpts from novels from Zadie Smith and Naomi Alderman. http://thepenguinpodcast.blogs.com/
Digital Publishing is Scrambling the Industry's Rules
What writers think about technological developments in the literary world has a lot to do with where they are sitting at the moment. As a researcher and scholar, Anne Fadiman, author of "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" and "Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader," thinks […]
Author David Foster Wallace's 2005 Kenyon commencement speech:
(If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I'd advise you to go ahead, because I'm sure going to. In fact I'm gonna [mumbles while pulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].) Greetings ["parents"?] and congratulations to Kenyon's graduating class of 2005. There are these […]
A link to a full listing of the Complete Western Canon. Books galore. Get reading!
Broken down by:
A. The Theocratic Age: 2000 BCE-1321 CE
B. The Aristocratic Age: 1321-1832
C. The Democratic Age: 1832-1900
D. The Chaotic Age: 20th Century
Taken from Harold Bloom's Book: The Western Canon. More lists of Great Books. All […]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2092174,00.html
TWELVE BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
A list by Melvyn Bragg.
Principia Mathematica (1687) by Isaac Newton
Married Love (1918) by Marie Stopes
Magna Carta (1215) by members of the English ruling classes
Book of Rules of Association Football (1863) by a group of former English public-school men
On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
On the Abolition of the […]
http://www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/articles/050613sh_shouts
On the flight to Raleigh, I sneezed, and the cough drop I’d been sucking on shot from my mouth, ricocheted off my folded tray table, and landed, as I remember it, in the lap of the woman beside me, who was asleep and had her arms folded across her chest. I’m surprised that the force […]
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