Tag: literature
group name: originaliterate
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April 27, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
Publisher's Note: Bards and Sages is the publisher of Mrs. Sadler's upcoming novella, Foot Ways. The first chapter is reproduced here with permission from the author. We hope you enjoy . . .
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May 25, 2007 11:13 PM EDT --
Good landscape description sets the scene, determines the mood, and conveys emotions ranging from a sense of dread to one of peace. Narrative passages can paint a backdrop for action to come. A well-drawn . . .
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May 26, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
It is fitting that the name pansy comes from the French word pensie, which means thought or remembrance. Because looking at a delicate pansy brings back so many memories of my grandmother. She loved to . . .
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May 27, 2007 06:44 AM EDT --
It seems I've known you forever.
Why did emotions have to start?
At night images haunt me.
Till you're a touch apart.
You laugh and joke.
As my feelings go astray.
I could reach out . . .
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October 09, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
UPDATE : Rumor around The Swedish Academy is that the nomination of Le Clézio was (gasp!) leaked ahead of Thursday's planned announcement I read the Reuters article twice to try to figure out what . . .
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June 06, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
UNIQUE
Unique may be the foremost example of an absolute term – a term that, in the eyes of traditional grammarians, should not allow comparison or modification by an adverb of degree like very, . . .
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February 11, 2009 03:43 PM EST --
If you're anything like me, then you've always felt one critical thing was missing from Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice : "bone-crunching zombie action." I . . .
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June 03, 2009 11:00 AM EDT --
Print is dead...long live print! Defying struggling book sales and a sluggish economy, two award-winning book nerds set out to open a brick-and-mortar book store.
Jessica Stockton Bagnulo ( of the . . .
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September 24, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
Move aside Oprah: Esquire.com, the online edition of the eponymous print mag, posted this week the editor's picks of the top 75 books every guy should read (it is, if you don't know, the publication's . . .
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May 22, 2009 01:17 PM EDT --
I am not a book reviewer — never write them and only on rare occasions read them. I think my reluctance to embrace the book review genre is that, for the most part, the reviewers seem too interested . . .
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November 14, 2008 07:01 PM EST --
The following is my humble poetic attempt to render into English one of the most touching episodes from the first known literary masterpiece of ancient Russian literature, The Tale of Igor's Campaign. . . .
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June 04, 2007 10:39 AM EDT --
I begin my discussion of this important and controversial work with a caveat. I was brought up within the strictures of fundamentalist Christianity, a force I consider deeply virulent in the world. I have . . .
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March 11, 2008 12:23 PM EDT --
A few days ago, I sat down for a little GTalk with my old friend, fellow writer, and man of many digital hats, Adam Maxwell . In our interview, he shares his insight on such things as: the effect a new . . .
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November 20, 2008 10:30 AM EST --
File this one under "Award-winning books I will never read," the National Book Award in Fiction was given yesterday to Peter Matthiessen , a prolific novelist and non-fiction writer of more . . .
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May 14, 2007 05:16 PM EDT --
I was born in 1959 and grew up in the small town of Whitman, Massachusetts. My grandmother, Ina Blanchard Bates was a writer of poetry, stories and song lyrics. She started me on my writting journey. She . . .
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May 18, 2009 04:47 PM EDT --
It can be argued that the web has done many things for literature, but one of my favorites is how the digital era has lowered the barrier of entry for conversation around books. Amazon, Shelfari, . . .
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August 19, 2009 01:35 PM EDT --
As I'm working to regain my health (systems down due to workplace bullying) I'm finding that I can only read children's literature right now - all the rest hurts me. Yesterday I took the day off from . . .
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December 05, 2008 03:18 PM EST --
Sei Shōnagon ( 清少 納 言 ), ( c.966 -1017) was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi /Empress Sadako around the year 1000 during . . .
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August 18, 2009 07:03 PM EDT --
HarperCollins announced a 20.6% drop in revenue for the quarter ending June 30, 2009, Publisher's Weekly reports . Citing -- among other things -- a decline in book sales, CEO Brian Murray admitted . . .
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April 14, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
Wednesday, November 24: I think my first hint that something had changed was the Breaking News labels on television. I wasn't really watching TV, but it was on and the characteristic . . .
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