In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic – NYTimes.com: By the end of his life, Samuel Langhorne Clemens had achieved fame as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, a globe-trotting lecturer and, of course, the literary genius who wrote ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ and other works under the name Mark Twain. […]
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Looking Glass for the Mind: 350 Years of Books for Children http://content.lib.washington.edu/childrensweb/exhibit.html The University of Washington Digital Collection of children’s books starts off with a wonderful piece that touches on the beloved memories children’s books bring back for so many, but also on the reasons why a university library would collect children’s books. Several of
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Mississippi Plantation Diary That Inspired William Faulkner Discovered – NYTimes.com: The climactic moment in William Faulkner’s 1942 novel ‘Go Down, Moses’ comes when Isaac McCaslin finally decides to open his grandfather’s leather farm ledgers with their ‘scarred and cracked backs’ and ‘yellowed pages scrawled in fading ink’ — proof of his family’s slave-owning past. Now,
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Madoff Case Echoes Rich Lode of Swindler Literature – NYTimes.com: In the “there’s nothing new under the sun” department, this article points out some of the literary predecessors to the Bernie Madoff financial scandal: ‘You must realize that money making is one thing, religion another, and family life a third,’ Mr. Voysey matter-of-factly tells his
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Literary Map of Maine | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram: What a delight! The Literary Map of Maine is a partnership between the Maine Sunday Telegram newspaper and several of the state’s libraries and humanities groups. Here you can read about such classic authors of American literature as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet
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The Internet vs. books: Peaceful coexistence – Los Angeles Times: Books require a different sort of communion with one’s subject than the Internet. They foster a different sort of memory — more tactile, more participatory. . . . For literary works, books are still, and most likely always will be, indispensable. In the Los Angeles
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Books | “Promised Land” looks at books that shaped who we are | Seattle Times Newspaper: Some books are so well-known that almost no one actually reads them. They have had so much influence that we ‘know’ them merely by living in the world they have helped create. And yet, as the distinguished poet, novelist
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Here are two retrospectives on Tony Hillerman: In Appreciation of Tony Hillerman, The Christian Science Monitor bestselling mystery author provided insight into the native people and culture of the Southwest, Los Angeles Times
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A whale of a debate over ‘Moby Dick’ | csmonitor.com: Please, spare us any more giant mammal jokes! Here in Massachusetts we’ve had to listen to every possible commentator refer to it as a ‘whale of a debate,’ but, after a lively discussion in our state House of Representatives we are now a step closer
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Going Down the Road – In a Town Apart, the Pride and Trials of Black Life – Series – NYTimes.com: Eatonville, the first all-black town to incorporate in the country and the childhood home of Zora Neale Hurston, is no longer as simple as she described it in 1935: ‘the city of five lakes, three
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