Month: September 2022

TODAY: In 1915, P. G. Wodehouse’s short story “Extricating Young Gussie” is published in The Saturday Evening Post, introducing the characters Jeeves and Bertie.   “There is a kind of freedom in divorcing the maker from what is made.” Kailyn McCord considers the myth of the Made Writer. | Lit Hub Writing Life What do
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From Ghostwire: Tokyo to The Quarry, this year has seen a solid lineup of new games. By Scott Meslow September 14, 2022 Collage by Gabe Conte For most of 2022, the video game industry has been defined more by its past than its future. Microsoft is in the process of acquiring Activision Blizzard, a gaming
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a leading figure in English Romanticism. As well as co-authoring the landmark 1798 collection Lyrical Ballads with his friend William Wordsworth, Coleridge was also a critic of unmatched genius, whose pronouncements on Shakespeare, Romanticism, and the literary imagination remain influential even now. Below, we select and introduce some of the
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September 14, 2022, 3:15pm Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature, which includes ten titles originally written in nine different languages: Arabic, Danish, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, and Spanish. The judges for this year’s award are Nick Buzanski, Veronica Esposito, Ann Goldstein (Chair),
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