Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
Friday January 30, 2004
Laurence Bergreen, is an acclaimed biographer, well known for his biographies of Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, and Al Capone; he's a regular contributor to the New Yorker, Conde Nast Traveler, ... Read More
Hemispheres Magazine's Faux Faulkner and Imitation Hemingway contests
Monday January 26, 2004
Hemispheres Magazine's March 1 deadline for the Faux Faulkner and Imitation Hemingway contests approaches rapidly. These annual parody contests celebrate two of our greatest writers with the sincerest form of ... Read More
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Friday January 23, 2004
Jeffrey Eugenides' first novel, The Virgin Suicides, has been translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film. Middlesex, published in 2002, met with similar acclaim.
Middlesex traces an abnormal ... Read More
Oprah Winfrey and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thursday January 22, 2004
Oprah Winfrey's book club is taking on as their next pick Gabriel Garcia Marquez's epic work, "One Hundred Years of Solitude." An often confusing but magnetic story, "One Hundred ... Read More
Quoth the raven "Nevermore."
Tuesday January 20, 2004
Edgar Allen Poe's death in 1849 is a topic still shrouded in mystery. After visiting Virginia as a lecturer, Poe disappeared and was later found in Baltimore, in horrible ... Read More
Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance
Monday January 19, 2004
Each year on the third Monday of January schools, federal offices, post office and banks across America close as we celebrate the birth, the life and the dream of Dr. ... Read More
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Saturday January 17, 2004
T. Ray Owens is the hateful, peach-farming antagonist of Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees." When T. Ray is feeling particularly mean towards his daughter, he pulls the ... Read More
J.K. Rowling Shortlisted for WH Smith Award
Wednesday January 14, 2004
J.K. Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was short-listed yesterday for the fiction category of the WH Smith 'People's Choice' Book Awards.
"The fiction award usually ... Read More
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
Sunday January 11, 2004
Pulitzer-prize nominee, Mark Salzman, faces the challenge of his life when he enters the halls of Las Angeles County's Central Juvenile Hall to teach writing to a class full of ... Read More
Timing is Everything in Tolkien Archive Sale
Saturday January 10, 2004
Grace Funk, a retired Vancouver librarian, is selling her personal J.R.R. Tolkien archive to Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI for an undisclosed sum. The university's library already boasts ownership ... Read More
Inside George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
Thursday January 8, 2004
Author of numerous books and essays, but most remembered for his critically-acclaimed dystopian novel, "1984," George Orwell's thought and writing has been wide-reaching in its impact on society. ... Read More
The Best of British Blogging
Saturday January 3, 2004
Blogs: No longer dismissed as mere online journals, these cyber-epistles have opened new and unforseen dimensions of creativity, and as such are gaining more and more acceptance as literary ... Read More
Before, During & After, Poems by Hal Sirowitz
Thursday January 1, 2004
The current Poet Laureate of Queens, Hal Sirowitz has attained something of a cult status worldwide. A New York City schoolteacher, he is best known for his collections of ... Read More