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Book Notes: A bouquet of poems to celebrate May
The Day· 3 days agoOn Sunday May 12, at 5 p.m. (Mother’s Day) the Stonington Free Library is very fortunate to have Professor David Leeming speak on the occasion of James Baldwin< ...
Author has advice for writers: Attenberg’s book aims to keep you motivated to write
The Columbian· 12 hours agoYou need someone like Jami Attenberg, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., in your head. When she began this one, she imagined she was writing something motivational and repetitive, like the self-help book she once read to stop smoking.
Russia’s book police: anti-gay law opens ugly new chapter
The Raw Story· 4 days agoWhat do the novels, “A Home at the End of the World” by US writer Michael Cunningham, “Giovanni’s...
What Shakespeare can teach us about racism
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 day agoConsidered the greatest writer in English literature, William Shakespeare illustrates views on race and whiteness throughout all of his dramatic works.
The Decay of Education | RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics· 3 days agoThe decay in American education is an alarming national security threat. Most high school or college graduates know about little more than their sexual...
The Complicated Ethics of Rare-Book Collecting
The Atlantic· 2 days agoWhen Penn State University’s Toby and Betty Bruce Collection of Ernest Hemingway acquired the items in 2021, it represented the most significant trove of...
Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights
The Independent US via AOL· 3 days agoIN FOCUS: Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David...
An underappreciated era in Black literature gets its due - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 3 days agoIn “The Blue Period,” Jesse McCarthy zooms in on Black authors who lived and wrote between 1945 and...
Why Terry Southern Was “the Most Useful Writer” in America
The Nation· 3 days agoThe madcap satires of Terry Southern, who would have turned 100 today, remain urgently relevant,...
‘Americans in Paris’ Surveys Artists Who Straddled the Fractured Culture of the Postwar World - The...
The Village Voice· 2 days agoAmerica lays claim to its expatriates by never letting them forget the nation they left. Whether paying Uncle Sam taxes after decades away or speaking incessantly about political strife back ...
