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William Faulkner and the End of Man
Like James Joyce, William Faulkner has an unjust reputation as a 'difficult' writer. Perhaps for this reason he is relatively…
Upcoming TV Adaptations
Angela Macmillan made contact to point out that the BBC is working on several interesting-looking TV adaptations of eighteenth and…
Booker Prize longlist announced
Judges have announced the titles longlisted for this year's Booker Prize for fiction. The prize is one of the world's…
100 Years On The Road
This year is the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's famous rambling American epic, On The Road, but few people will…
Charles Simic–US Poet Laureate
The Guardian reports that Charles Simic has been named poet laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress.…
Women Writers Before 1700
I came across this excellent site via Language Hat and thought it should be shared. It's a compilation of women's…
The Book of Hopes and Dreams
Dee Rimbaud made contact recently about The Book Of Hopes And Dreams, a charity poetry anthology, published to raise money…
Famous Poems as Limericks
Boing Boing, the self-styled "directory of wonderful things" posted a link yesterday to a collection of limericks based on famous…
Recommended Reads: Poppy Shakespeare
I have just finished reading Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allen. Set in a North London day hospital, Allen draws on…
First Annual Troubadour Poetry Prize
Angela Macmillan has drawn my attention to the first annual Troubadour Poetry Prize, judged by Helen Dunmore and David Constantine.…
Harry Potter and the Double-Edged Sword
The release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on July 21st concludes one of the best-selling and most controversial…
The Rushdie Knighthood
Over at the Kenyon Review blog Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky has written a provocative post reflecting on the implications of Salman Rushdie's…
