Literature

April 23, 2021, 12:24pm Poetry-heads rejoice, and then leap into action: a handwritten copy of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is currently up for auction through Lion Heart Autographs. The copy is not the original manuscript of the poem, but is nevertheless quite rare; David Lowenherz, president of Lion Heart Autographs,
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‘The Birthmark’ is a short story by the nineteenth-century American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1843. Although not as well-known as ‘Young Goodman Brown’ or ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’, ‘The Birthmark’ is an intriguing tale which, like those more famous stories, contains ambiguous symbolism within its straightforward plot. You can read ‘The Birthmark’ here
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TODAY: In 1967, S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is published by Viking.   “I will get my second vaccination in a few weeks and today I wondered if I should practice wearing shoes with heels again.” Ada Limón on preparing the body for a reopened world. | Lit Hub Why does walking help us think? Jeremy DeSilva looks to great writers,
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In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses one of the most famous lines from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra ‘Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety’: these words are among the most well-known and oft-quoted from William Shakespeare’s late tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, about the love affair between
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April 23, 2021, 1:03pm Exciting news: Tibet’s ancient books protection center has uploaded over twenty thousand folios of rare, ancient books and documents to the Tibet Library’s official website. Users are able to search, copy and download all documents for free. This is a major step forward for archive accessibility—for researchers, history enthusiasts, and simply
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TODAY: In 1896, English novelist Margaret Kennedy is born.  Kate Aronoff draws a line from the Green New Deal back to FDR’s New Deal, which “reimagined what the US government could do, what it was for, and who it served.” | Lit Hub Politics “The things that mark you will come out in your work;
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The following is excerpted from Fiona Mozley’s latest novel, Hot Stew, about wealth and inheritance, gender and power, and the things women must do to survive in an unjust world. Mozley was born in East London and raised in York, in the North of England. She studied history at Cambridge and then lived in Buenos
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Welcome to Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Over the past 25 years, SVWC has become the gold standard of American literary festivals, bringing together contemporary writing’s brightest stars for their view of the world through a literary lens. Every month, Beyond the Page curates and distills the best talks
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