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V.S. Naipaul on Young People These Days
He's been everywhere the last week or so. V.S. Naipaul has a book to sell and he seems to think…
The Booker Prize: Those Readability Stats in Full
Over at One-Minute Book Reviews Janice Harayda has been having fun with Microsoft Word's readability stats feature. Sadly this amusing…
Paul Muldoon: New Yorker Poetry Editor
The New York Times reports that the New Yorker magazine has appointed Irish poet Paul Muldoon as its poetry editor.…
Cold Pastoral: The Security of Nouns
An item on the radio this morning was discussing the security situation in Iraq and describing the ferocity and ruthlessness…
Reader Editor Guest Blogging
In the run-up to the publication of his book on Bernard Malamud Reader editor Philip Davis has been blogging for…
Sylvia Plath Reads ‘Daddy’
This astonishing short film in which Sylvia Plath reads her poem 'Daddy' comes as quite a surprise. Not only does…
The Literary Feedback Loop
There's a lot of discussion in American book circles these days about the declining coverage of books in major newspapers,…
On The Road: Kerouac Roundup
September marks the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, notorious for being written on a single roll…
Managing The Library of Babel
Jorge Luis Borges' story 'The Library of Babel' proposes a library so vast it contains all possible books, but is…
The Fabric of Quotations: Literature and Interactivity
Back in the 1980s, when the Sinclair Spectrum seemed the pinnacle of personal computing, English departments were arguing over the…
Booker 2007 Shortlist
The shortlist for this year's Man Booker prize was announced today with most newspapers, including The Guardian focussing on Ian…
Language That Moves
Tyler Meier has posted an interesting piece on the Kenyon Review blog about figurative language and its role in making…
