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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Anxious? Depressed? Literate? Try Bibliotherapy | Think Tank | Big Think Author Alain de Botton (Religion for Atheists, How Proust Can Change Your Life) and his partners at the London-based School of Life have taken this intuition a step further. Their “bibliotherapy” program matches individuals struggling in any aspect of their lives with a list
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Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry. via How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read – Mental Floss.
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The Heroine in the Drawing Room Cynthia Crossen, books columnist for the Wall Street Journal, contemplates the meaning of the phrase domestic fiction, a genre often sneered at: Domestic fiction, like all literary genres, can be bad, and bad in an especially cloying, attenuated and dreary way. I call bad domestic novels Hallmark fiction, and
The Best Books of Fall 2012. Start building your fall reading list now with this list of Publishers Weekly’s picks for the best books scheduled for publication in September, October, and November: This year’s fall roster is the perfect mix of reader favorites like Dennis Lehane and Richard Russo, and some notable debuts from authors
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Disturbances in the Field by Lynne Sharon Schwartz is one of the best novels I’ve ever read.
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Top 7 Literary Cities in Europe Tourism-Review.com explores “the top seven European cities for literary tourists”: Edinburgh, Scotland Dublin, Ireland London, England Paris, France St. Petersburg, Russia Stockholm, Sweden Norwich, England A List of the Greatest Lists in Literature Speaking of lists, The Atlantic offers this one: “our favorite lists in literature, from short to
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5 Most Popular Books on Books Do you have irresistible desire for books? Do you feel passionate about reading or has the book changed your life? If yes then read about some interesting plots that revolve around books or book connoisseurs resembling you. Here goes a list of top 5 well-received titles that celebrate books
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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
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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