One of the pleasures associated with reading literature is reading about the literature one has read, and even better, about the great literature that one has not yet read and - melancholy fate - probably never will.
University of Baltimore Course Wakes Up Students with the Undead
Dr. Arnold Blumberg plans to teach a course about zombies to fill an advanced English credit.
Writing Across Formats: Shutta Crum
Learn about Shutta Crum . What first inspired you to write across forms in children's-YA literature? Well, I've always loved children's literature at all levels.
Booker shortlist marked by humorous novels
Comment about "Booker shortlist marked by humorous novels" Phone Name Comment 0 Literature Booker shortlist marked by humorous novels Sherna Noah, PA Copies of the books shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Booker Prize: Britain's best literature is divine comedy
We all take for granted the things we're good at, and yearn to be good at the things we can't do.
Book Discussion Explores Faith and Christianity in Fiction
" The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library will offer a four-part book discussion series September through November called "Faith in Fiction: Christianity." The discussions are free and open to the public with advance registration.
The AAUW's 58th Annual Used Book Sale can help you get started...
There are 106 books in this picture, many of which were purchased at last year's AAUW's Used Book Sale.
The Buy: Our Favourite Necklaces
Gold Plated Pen Nib Necklace . "It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."a 'Oscar Wilde It's no secret that designers use history as inspiration for the latest trends, with shapes and styles cycling endlessly though collections.
Last month, super-producer Scott Rudin bought the rights to Jonathan Franzen's Great American Novel Freedom shortly before the author's face hit the cover of Time and the book became a lightning rod, causing bitter feuding among those who'd not actually read it yet .
Film series presents Roman Polanski
'The Pianist' won three Academy Awards. contributed Horror story 'Rosemary's Baby' was a big hit in U.S. contributed photos Polanski classic 'Chinatown' will be shown Friday at The Varsity.
Sept. 10th marks the 6th Annual Omaha Lit Fest at Kaneko, located at 11th and Jones Streets.
History's Greatest Book Burners
If Pastor Terry Jones goes through with his threat to burn Korans on Sept. 11, he'll take his place alongside fanatics who destroyed Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Falun Gong texts - and even Braille books.
Dreambox triumphantly pursued another dream-come-true project with its new musical, Namsai Jaijing, in which long-term companionship and youthful happiness are the name of the game.
Ridgewood-bred scribe tries a novel approach
WHAT: "Vida" . FOR MORE INFORMATION: patriciaengel.com. The pictures arrived first, then the words.
This maddeningly brilliant and masterful meditation on family, terrible confusions, love, and lives of the repressed middle-classes is proof to UMAPAGAN AMPIKAIPAKAN that Jonathan Franzen's the last of the great literary novelists Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 562 pages / Fourth Estate NOW I did not like The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen's critically ...
US college offers zombie studies course
It is a class to die for - Zombie studies is now on the curriculum at Baltimore University.
Plagiarism? No, patchwork literature
France's leading contemporary author, Michel Houellebecq, has been accused of cutting and pasting passages from Wikipedia and other websites into his new book.
Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data
Abstract Motivation: In recent years, the gulf between the mass of accumulating-research data and the massive literature describing and analyzing those data has widened.
GRCC students, staff read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' for book's 50th anniversary
Ellen Sywerda was flipping through the channels earlier this summer when she caught one of her favorite movies: "To Kill a Mockingbird." "I made sure to watch it, and I was moved all over again," said Sywerda, a Grand Rapids Community College English professor.
Our Daily Labors: 5 books worth a look
Labor Day may have been celebrated on Monday, but we want to continue to honor the rich history of labor in America.
Emma Donoghue on Booker Prize short list
Emma Donoghue, an Irish-born writer who lives in Canada, is among six writers shortlisted Tuesday for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for English-language literature.
I'm working on a literature review of A publications related to the theme "Classics and Computers". I'm looking specifically at g eneral surveys, studies and discussions about the history of the relationship between classics and computers , a disciplinary field that has recently emerged as Digital Classics .
Can 'Freedom' stand test of time?
Ss the century is precisely 10 years old and already it has a greatest novel? Jonathan Franzen's Freedom has yet to be released, but on the strength of pre-publication review copies, the literary establishment has declared it to be the novel of the century.
Today, September 7, arrives in US shops Literary Classics , a DVD collection edited by Twentieth Century Fox and MGM Home Entertainment which includes Jane Eyre 1944: Stellar Films Arrive September 7, Featuring Removable Bookmarks Some of the greatest works of literature come alive in the new Literary Classics DVD collection, arriving on September ...
Sensitive Jesse Stuart was complex, too
TO say that Jesse Stuart, the late great writer from Greenup County, Ky., was a paradox is to say that Hurricane Katrina was a notable storm.
Academic entertainer returning to Lake Villa
Academic entertainer Barbara Rinella will return to Lehmann Mansion for a presentation and lunch on Oct.
Here we go again...another school year...another journey that brings joy, fear, anger, excitement, stress and endless challenges.
Purr-fect way to better reading
If Tonka, a brown and black striped cat, could read, she might prefer a good romance novel.
Normally, I would save a statement like this for an end-of-year or beginning-of-new-year column, but I cannot wait any longer: Vampires infused into history and classic literature is a trend that needs to die.
Playboy magazine's literary Playmate of the Month is Madame Bovary, the naughty doctor's wife from a small town in Normandy who first outraged and delighted French readers in 1856.
Hugo Award Winners Announced at AussieCon 4
Down here in Melbourne, Australia the annual science fiction and fantasy convention AussieCon has been host to the 68th World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention.
It can be said that the arts have always had a very close relationship with the environment and this has become much more sharply relevant in the current climate of global warming, rainforest conservation and carbon consciousness.A It is just as pertinent to Guyana with its environmental wealth, the canopy of a Low Carbon Development Stra-tegy, ...
Readers of the classics already know the answer to 'What's cake got to do with books and literature?' Proust's Madeleine and Miss Havisham's wedding cake in Dickens's Great Expectations make a great start.
Bidirectional best-fit heuristic for orthogonal rectangular strip packing
Annals of Operations Research Posts Export Abstract Abstract In a non-guillotinable rectangular strip packing problem , the best orthogonal placement of given rectangular pieces on a strip of stock sheet having fixed width and infinite height are searched.
Toward an Understanding of Macrocognition in Teams: Predicting...
Purchase options OR Abstract: Objective: This article presents a model for predicting complex collaborative processes as they arise in one-of-a-kind problem-solving situations to predict performance outcomes.
Some English classes at Arkansas State University in Beebe were treated to story time this week as the instructor read aloud to them three children's books: The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland, Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say , and Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold.
Who Wants to be Edward? Or the Bunny and the Sabre
Another John Mullan BrontA selection in the Guardian . Now Ten of the best religious zealots in literature: St John Rivers Rivers is persuasive as well as repellent.
Poetry reading with Nikki Giovanni
Published: Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 3, 2010 at 1:56 p.m. In order for the world and people to keep evolving, they must keep learning, said Nikki Giovanni from her office at Virginia Tech.
A Physician Examines His Novels
When Hans Keilson's first daughter was born, in 1941, he was in hiding in the Netherlands.
Serialized Literature makes aA comeback
Way back in 2008 at the Online Information conference in London, I talked a little about where I thought we'd see writing in general go, given the technologies that were mature/maturing: eReaders , blogs and blog software, and more.
The Extraordinary Life of Bernard Knox, the Warrior-Humanist
The death of Bernard Knox has impoverished not just contemporary classical scholarship but the humanities as a whole.
Hamlet, Shakespeare's troubled prince of Denmark, is among the most unfocused heroes in literature.
Ten of the best religious zealots in literature
Solomon Eagle Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year imagined the Great Plague of 1665 so vividly that the first readers thought it a genuine record.
How Madame Bovary became a Bunny Girl
How Madame Bovary became a Bunny Girl A new English translation of the novel that scandalised 19th-century France has inspired October's 'Playmate of the Month' spread and reignited debate about Flaubert's creation.
Seafaring Literature Finds Home Port
Sag Harbor resident Robert Hooke is a sculptor, gallery owner and former Navy captain, who has single handedly sailed across the Atlantic Ocean several times and participated in an around-the world trans-ocean sailing event in 1991.
Oprah Book Club: New pick on Sept. 17
Almost a full year after her last pick, and just in time to decidedly not choose the new Jonathan Franzen, Oprah Winfrey will soon be announcing the next inductee into that all-powerful pantheon of literature: Oprah's Book Club.