Happy Birthday, Truman Capote
In honor of Truman Capote‘s birthday, today’s featured review is In Cold Blood, the book that changed writing forever.
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The acclaimed creator of Harry Potter is excited about new book for adults – USATODAY.com
The acclaimed creator of Harry Potter is excited about new book for adults – USATODAY.com. Read this exclusive interview with J. K. Rowling in preparation for tomorrow’s launch of her new novel for adults, A Casual Vacancy.
Monday Miscellany
Here’s what I’ve been reading this week: Why the Best Mysteries Are Written in English From the pen of Otto Penzler: It is an inarguable fact that virtually everything of interest and significance in the history of detective fiction has been written in the English language, mainly by American and English authors. This is not
Judy’s Blog: !@#$% Happens
Judy’s Blog: !@#$% Happens. Author Judy Blume blogs about her recent experience with breast cancer.
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Monday Miscellany
Nothing Is More Real Than Fiction Over on BookRiot Greg Zimmerman praises the power of ficiton: I get really angry when someone says they don’t read fiction because it’s all made up and “not real.” Bullshit! Nothing is more real than fiction. Nothing helps us make sense of the real world more than fiction. Nothing
Monday Miscellany
Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels A while back NPR asked readers/listeners to vote on their favorite YA novels. 75,220 people voted, helping to whittle the list of 235 finalists down to the top 100. In addition to the list of winners, this page includes links to explanations of what exactly constitutes YA literature. A
Erik Larson’s Top 10 Essentials to a Writer’s Life
Top 10 Essentials to a Writer’s Life | WritersDigest.com. Bestselling nonfiction author Erik Larson (Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts) offers this list of 10 essentials for writers. Included after the list are links to articles about authors Gore Vidal and Nora Ephron, and to quotations about writing.
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Monday Miscellany
Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History People may know about Longfellow and Poe, but do they know about the ongoing literary feud between these two sons of New England? They will after perusing this marvelous digital exhibit from the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society, which explores some of the “forgotten chapters” of
Birthday: Gerard Manley Hopkins
In honor of the birthday of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), here’s my favorite of his poems. God’s Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not
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Monday Miscellany
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid I haven’t been this literarily excited in a long, long time. One of my favorite authors, Val McDermid, has been chosen to update Jane Austen’s least well known novel, Northanger Abbey, for a modern audience: Northanger Abbey is the story of the gothic novel-obsessed 17-year-old