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James Morrow on Witches, Frankenstein, Cyberpunk, and More -
 - Bill Ectric (1,151)    
Bill Ectric 
As teenagers, James Morrow and his friends made short 8mm movies based on Coleridge and Poe stories. Morrow went on to earn a master's degree from Harvard University , then published his first novel, The Wine of Violence , in 1981. His latest, The Philosopher's Apprentice , prompted the Library... ( added 1 year 195 days ago.) |
Teaching A Thousand Splendid Suns: Afghanistan Speaks -
Susan Bertolino (112)
I just finished teaching Sunjata, the epic about the king who began the Mande Empire in West Africa. Now I'm moving onto A Thousand Splendid Suns . I may have to use a different tactic: I've been using Jungian archetypes to teach The Epic of Gilgamesh and Sunjata, but it may not be effective... ( added 266 days 3 hours ago.) |
Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley in Conversation -
Jean Purcell (1,878)   
Jean Purcell  
From Harlem
Maya Angelou speaks
With Tavis in LA
He questions
And she answers
About this life's too-brief day
"I am like a grain of sand"
She says
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The Enchantment -
Gregory Lewis (1,456)  
Gregory Lewis
W hen I was a young boy my mother took my brothers and I to a wilderness refuge in southern California called Neil Park. There were hills and a small rushing brook. There were jackrabbits and great horned owls that swooped upon us as we rode, shrieking, in the back of the maroon colored VW... ( added 1 year 41 days ago.) |
New Literary Movements: An Interview with Andrew Gallix on 'The Offbeat Generation" -
- Jennifer Cuddy (985)  
Jennifer Cuddy
There is a self conscious 'movement' emerging in the blogosphere who call themselves 'The Offbeat Generation'. Heralded by founder and chief editor of 3:AM magazine, Andrew Gallix, describes the Offbeats as "nonconcomformers who ( atleast in their work) feel alienated from mainstream publishing... ( added 1 year 181 days ago.) |
Here's the Laptop, Here's the Spellcheck, Now Write a Book -
- Jennifer Cuddy (985)
Jennifer Cuddy
A promising new Literary movement is emerging across the pond in the small cafes and crowded flats of Europe. In the spirit of the 'Beat Poets' and writers of the fifties ( Jack Kerouac, William S Burroughs, Allan Ginsberg; et al.,) these gifted young artists who call themselves 'The Offbeat... ( added 1 year 218 days ago.) |
Ain't I A Woman? -
Blackwoman (581)
I thought once how my ancestors sing the sweet songs, of love the souls that march upon the clouds, and the sound of the ancient drums, Humble the elders that carry the cross to carry the crown to place upon the warriors heads. The soldiers begins to beat the drums And the spirits rise upon the... ( added 2 years 20 days ago.) |
Poetry and Shunyata. -
Durlabh Singh (0) 
POETRY AND SHUNYATA.
In Buddhism shunyata and suchness are two aspects of ultimate reality. This Sanskrit term is usually rendered into English as emptiness, which is misleading- giving an impression of ( added 83 days 2 hours ago.) |
Critical Essay Notes on Characterisation for The New Boy by Geddes Thomas -
- Connor Davidson (5,541)   
Connor Davidson
The New Boy by Geddes Thomas tells the story of a boy (Colin) who arrives at a new school and causes controversy with another boy named Tam. In the course of this piece I will appraise the writes skill through a series of headings to produce an aid to revision and study of the famous story; The... ( added 214 days 5 hours ago.) |
The Choosing by Liz Lochhead - A Critical Essay -
- Connor Davidson (5,541)
Connor Davidson
This poem is a very well written poem which, was carefully and effectively assembled to give a technically brilliant poem. The poem concerns the writer and her friend, Mary. The poem takes the seemingly simple situation of a friend moving and elaborates on it to produce a poem with a deeper... ( added 266 days ago.) |
Analysis of the David Ignatow Poem: I Killed A Fly -
- Tex Norman (4,263) 
Tex Norman
I Killed A Fly by David Ignatow I killed a fly and laid my weapon next to it
as one lays the weapon of a dead hero
beside his body-the fly
that tried to mount the window
to its top; that was born out of a swamp
to die in a bold effort beyond itself,
and I am the one who brought... ( added 1 year 47 days ago.) |
Mel Harter Discusses His Newly Published Novel Some Kind of Angel. -
ngoldman (5,760) 
ngoldman
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Melvin M. Harter who is a retired physician and author of Some Kind of Angel.
( added 1 year 106 days ago.) |
Meet John H. Manhold, author of El Tigre: The Life and Times of El Tigre Viejo -
ngoldman (5,760)
ngoldman
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest John H. Manhold, author of El Tigre: The Life and Times of El Tigre Viejo.
( added 1 year 106 days ago.) |
Mediation of Central Metaphors in Narrative Discourse -
- Gholam-Hussein Mahmood Sultani (42) 
To set out from the logical starting-point would require a foregrounding of the employed definition of the narrative from among all the various and discrepant definitions suggested for it. As H. Porter Abbot points out, the number of the events or actions and the necessity of a narrator are... ( added 1 year 169 days ago.) |
Don't You Marry The Mormon Boys Reviewed and Author Janet Kay Jensen Interviewed -
ngoldman (5,760)
ngoldman
Author: Janet Kay Jensen ISBN: 978-1-59955-075-6 Nominated in 2007 as a finalist in USA Book News in the Religious Fiction category, Janet Kay Jensen's Don't You Marry The Mormon Boys narrates the story of two medical students who meet and fall in love while both are attending the University... ( added 1 year 349 days ago.) |
The Literary Genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)  
Russell Shortt
On many of the world's lists of the best books ever written in the twentieth century, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is admirably almost always second, painfully always pipped by the old genius of Joyce's Ulysses, forever in the ascendancy. Still, I suppose second greatest writer to have... ( added 229 days 5 hours ago.) |
Bram Stoker and Dracula -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
Bram Stoker was born in 1847 in Dublin, he attended Trinity College from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. In 1876 while employed as a civil servant, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book and became the theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail newspaper. In 1878 he married Florence... ( added 1 year 47 days ago.) |
The Literary Genius of William Faulkner -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
Faulkner, Faulkner, Faulkner - the bane of droves and droves of undergraduates lives, desperately attempting to decipher his exquisite works, his novels being far from easily accessible, they are deeply layered and initially appear completely chaotic. All novelists rely on their imagination, they... ( added 229 days 5 hours ago.) |
Macbeth - Scotland's Most Dastardly King? -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
Shakespeare drew loosely from historical accounts about King Macbeth of Scotland for his play Macbeth. Early in the play Macbeth, who is a general in King Duncan of Scotland's army is told by Three Witches that he will one day be king. Lady Macbeth hatches a plot to murder Duncan so her husband... ( added 319 days 3 hours ago.) |
The Writings of George Bernard Shaw -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1856, he hated school and upon leaving education he took up a job as clerk in an estate office for several years, but he found that he was equally as unhappy. In 1876, he moved to London, his mother provided him with a pound a week while he... ( added 319 days 4 hours ago.) |
Ulysses - The Greatest Book of the Twentieth Century? -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
Ulysses is considered as one of the most important works of modernist literature, it chronicles the travails of the main protagonists, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dadelaus on an ordinary day in Dublin on 16 June 1904. It's stream of consciousness technique, crafty structuring, experimental prose... ( added 1 year 5 days ago.) |
The Life of Sean O'Casey -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
Sean O'Casey was born in Dublin in 1880 at 85 Upper Dorset St in the northern inner-city area of Dublin. He grew up surrounded by the tenements that would form the backdrop of his ground-breaking plays. He joined the Gaelic League in 1906 and learned to speak Irish, he also became a member of the... ( added 1 year 18 days ago.) |
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Biography of Oscar Wilde -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1854, into an Anglo-Irish family. His mother Jane Francesca Wilde (pseudonym Speranza) was poet for the Young Islanders and a life long nationalist. Wilde studied classics at Trinity College Dublin from 1871-1874, he won the Berkeley Gold Medal, the... ( added 1 year 43 days ago.) |
Biography of Seamus Heaney -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry and was the eldest of nine children. In 1957 he was accepted into Queen's University of Belfast to study English Language and Literature, he graduated in 1961 with a First Class Honours Degree. Heaney's poetry first came to public attention in the... ( added 1 year 45 days ago.) |
The writing style of Samuel Beckett -
- Russell Shortt (1,013)
Russell Shortt
Beckett's writing can be roughly divided into three periods - his early works up until 1945; his middle period from 1945 until the early 1960s, during which he wrote his best known works and his late period from the early 1960s until his death in 1989 during which his style became more... ( added 1 year 47 days ago.) |
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