Best-Ever Teen Novels? Vote For Your Favorites : NPR. NPR asks for your help in choosing the best YA novels from their list of 235. I am not up enough on YA lit to participate ethically, but I’d be interested to hear in the coments which 10 you pick.
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A Farewell to Arms’ With Hemingway’s Alternate Endings – NYTimes.com A new edition of “A Farewell to Arms,” which was originally published in 1929, will be released next week, including all the alternate endings, along with early drafts of other passages in the book. The new edition is the result of an agreement between Hemingway’s
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The Millions : Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2012 Book Preview. You’ll definitely want to check out this list to get yourself ready for fall and winter reading. There are books by some big-name authors here, including J. K. Rowling (yes! Her novel is due in September), Zadie Smith, Michael Chabon, Martin Amis, Junot Diaz,
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LeBron James, open book The NBA championship, recently won by the Miami Heat, was big news in the sports world. But a secondary story was the focus on Heat star LeBron James, who focused before games by reading. Yes, reading—all kinds of books, fiction and nonfiction. And lots of sports reporters, including ESPN’s Michael Wilbon here,
NEA Arts Magazine The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has published their fine quarterly magazine since 2004. This site provides access to the NEA Arts Magazine, a great resource for anyone with an interest in the cultural milieu of the United States. Visitors can read the entire magazine as a pdf, or they can
A 20th century interlude: Happy Bloomsday! « Shakespeare In Action In honor of the day, here’s an explanation and meditative reflection that’s well worth reading. It concludes: Ulysses is a novel that celebrates home even as Leopold Bloom is estranged from it. Bloomsday is a day to celebrate Dublin if you are there, but home
It’s Bloomsday, the annual celebration of the life and works of James Joyce. This is the date of Leopold Bloom’s journey around Dublin in Joyce’s Ulysses.
Oprah’s Book Club Selects ‘Wild’ Officially kicking off “Oprah Book Club 2.0” on June 4, Oprah Winfrey has selected Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Random House) as her first pick. The book, a memoir about a 1,100 mile solo hike that Strayed took after personal tragedy, has
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If you were holding your breath in anticipation of HBO’s series based on Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections, it’s time to exhale. Despite a stellar cast, the series has been scrapped: the decision came down to adapting the book’s challenging narrative, which moves through time and cuts forwards and back. While that works in the
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Because I was sick for much of last week, this week’s entry is short. Stories don’t need morals or messages Salon’s Laura Miller caused a flurry of comments recently with this article about a post on the New York Times education blog. In that post the parents of twins talked about taking their kids’ third-grade
