Avataralexeblazer How Lawrence Ferlinghetti Changed American Culture Forever verified_publisherslate.com - Fred Kaplan Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died on Monday at the age of 101, was one of the key figures in 20th century American culture. He was as responsible as …
Avataralexeblazer How the Internet Archive Digitizes 3,500 Books a Day–the Hard Way, One Page at a Time openculture.com - by Josh Jones Does turning the pages of an old book excite you? How about 3 million pages? That’s how many pages Eliza Zhang has scanned over her ten years with …
Avataralexeblazer “Who’s Laughing Now, Assholes?” A Letter from Henry David Thoreau to Literature Faculties at Cushy Liberal Arts Schools mcsweeneys.net - by Ron Fein Our 13th most-read article of 2020. Originally published April 29, 2020. Dear Professors — It’s been a minute, right? A few months ago, you were talking …
Avataralexeblazer The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint? verified_publisherslate.com - Rebecca Onion According to scholar Elizabeth Outka, the tragedy haunts modernist literature between the lines. Last year, I wrote an anniversary piece about the …
Avataralexeblazer The COVID-19 Song of J. Alfred Prufrock mcsweeneys.net - by Annalise Silivanch Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like droplets lightly strewn upon a table; Let us go, past certain …
AvataralexeblazerHumor Ghosted By Godot mcsweeneys.net - by Zach Buckner As little as $1 a month ($12 a year!) goes a long way towards supporting our editorial staff and contributors while keeping us ad-free. Become a …
Avataralexeblazer The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot verified_publisherThe Atlantic - James Parker“The question is not does love exist / But when she leaves, where she goes.” What’s that—something from Four Quartets? Actually it’s “Secrets,” by Van Halen. But how elegantly it expresses the problem....
Avataralexeblazer The National Emergency Library is offering free ebooks — but is it lending or piracy? verified_publisherThe Verge - Adi RobertsonLast week, the Internet Archive launched a “National Emergency Library” offering access to 1.4 million free books during the coronavirus pandemic. The library aims to serve people who can’t access a normal...
Avataralexeblazer Famous Works of Literature Revised for the Age of Coronavirus mcsweeneys.net - by Alyse Knorr Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, Starbuck, Stubb, Tashtego, Flask, and Daggoo Zoom into work aboard the Pequod from home. “Possessed by all the …
Avataralexeblazer Famous Lines of Poetry Revised for the Age of Coronavirus mcsweeneys.net - by Dave Pell Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled. Duh. He was my North, my South, my East, and West, My working week and my Sunday …
Avataralexeblazer Franz Kafka’s MasterClass On Social Distancing mcsweeneys.net - by Scott Stein “Don’t you want to join us?” I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already …
Avataralexeblazer Woody Allen got a book deal. Staff at his new publisher have walked out in protest. verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyEmployees of the publisher Hachette Book Group are staging a walkout in protest of the company’s recently announced acquisition of Woody Allen’s forthcoming memoir, Publishers Weekly reports. In a statement...
Avataralexeblazer Libraries Could Preserve Ebooks Forever, But Greedy Publishers Won’t Let Them verified_publisherGizmodo - Caitlin McGarry There are currently 342 potential borrowers waiting for 197 digital copies of Ronan Farrow’s investigative thriller Catch and Kill at the Los Angeles …
Avataralexeblazer Valentine’s Day Gifts From Famous Fictional Men mcsweeneys.net - by Amanda Lehr Queequeg: A cozy weekend at a BnB, followed by a cruise. Makes everyone else look bad. Romeo Montague: Gas station roses and a teddy bear. Willy Loman: …
Avataralexeblazer Literary Airbnb Reviews mcsweeneys.net - by Ross Bullen July 1897 “Cute Country Castle” Borgo Pass, Transylvania I honestly don’t even know where to begin with this place. The listing said “easily accessible …
AvataralexeblazerT.S. Eliot T.S. Eliot Left a Deliciously Petty Note to Future Readers of His Private Letters verified_publisherslate.com - Violet Kim Correspondence from the poet to his crush have been unsealed at Princeton University Library after more than 60 years. The Princeton University …
Avataralexeblazer Class of 2020: New in the Public Domain today! publicdomainreview.org Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2020 enter the public domain in many countries around the world.
AvataralexeblazerBooks The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. It never quite came. verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyAt the beginning of the 2010s, the world seemed to be poised for an ebook revolution. The Amazon Kindle, which was introduced in 2007, effectively mainstreamed ebooks. By 2010, it was clear that ebooks...
Avataralexeblazer The Best Gift for the Most Distracted Readers verified_publisherslate.com - Strategist Editors 80 little books, few more than 80 pages long, culled from enduring works of world literature. Buying gifts for readers is difficult, and until …
Avataralexeblazer A Legendary Publishing House’s Most Infamous Rejection Letters lithub.com - By Toby Faber Publishing history is littered with tales of authors who suffered rejection after rejection—often for years—before they finally found a publisher …
Avataralexeblazer Angry Librarians Are Going to War With Publishers verified_publisherslate.com - Heather Schwedel Inside an appropriately quiet revolt. If I wanted to borrow A Better Man by Louise Penny—the country’s current No. 1 fiction bestseller—from my local …
Avataralexeblazer Toni Morrison Deconstructs White Supremacy in America openculture.com - by Josh Jones Toni Morrison wrote against forgetting, against the institutionalization of denial necessary for maintaining racial hierarchies in the United States. …
Avataralexeblazer Ebooks Purchased From Microsoft Will Be Deleted This Month Because You Don't Really Own Anything Anymore verified_publisherGizmodo - Matt Novak Anyone who bought ebooks through the Microsoft Store is in for a rude shock in the coming days. The good news? You can get a refund. The bad news? …
Avataralexeblazer Shakespeare Wrote Insightfully About Women. That Doesn’t Mean He Was One. verified_publisherThe Atlantic - James ShapiroFor years, fantasists who peddle the fiction that Shakespeare didn’t write the plays attributed to him have failed to get Wikipedia to backdate doubts about his authorship. Wikipedia refuses to do so scholars...
Avataralexeblazer Was Shakespeare a Woman? verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Elizabeth WinklerThe authorship controversy has yet to surface a compelling alternative to the man buried in Stratford. Perhaps that’s because, until recently, no one was looking in the right place. The case for Emilia...
Avataralexeblazer 2019 Pulitzer winner Fairview is the most productively uncomfortable play I’ve ever seen verified_publisherVox - Constance GradyThe recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer for Drama has been announced, and the winner is both odd and terrific. Fairview, written by Jackie Sibblies Drury, is now a Pulitzer Prize winner, and it is also the...
Avataralexeblazer Native Son Gets the James Baldwin Edit verified_publisherThe Atlantic - A.T. McWilliamsThis article contains spoilers for Native Son. Selling more than 215,000 copies in the three weeks following its American debut, Richard Wright’s 1940 novel, Native Son, successfully captivated readers...
AvataralexeblazerLawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100: Hear the Great San Francisco Poet Read “Trump’s Trojan Horse,” “Pity the Nation” & Many... openculture.com - by Josh Jones It has been a season of mourning for literature: first the death of Mary Oliver and now W.S. Merwin, two writers who left a considerable imprint on …
AvataralexeblazerPoetry W. S. Merwin’s Poems of Ethical Care verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Walt HunterW. S. Merwin, who died last week at age 91, wrote in a lyric register to capture the epic brutality and organized violence of the 20th century. His poems are promontories from which readers can see, in...
