Literature

TODAY: In 1897, Thornton Wilder, the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and drama, is born.  JoAnne Tompkins considers the inner life of an aging shelter dog. | Lit Hub “Although it isn’t infectious like a virus, depression thrives on proximity, traveling down familial attachments, especially from mother to child.” Alex Riley on
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April 14, 2021, 7:30pm This evening, in a virtual ceremony, the Whiting Foundation announced the recipients of its 2021 Whiting Awards, which seek to “recognize excellence and promise in a spectrum of emerging talent.” These ten writers, working in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, will each be awarded $50,000, prize money that the Whiting Foundation
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April 14, 2021, 3:09pm In a one-sentence aside in The New York Times, Ben Smith revealed that Bustle Media Group is rebooting controversial news and gossip site Gawker, three years after BMG bought Gawker for only $1.35 million at a bankruptcy auction. Bustle Media Group confirmed a new Gawker launch is in the works to
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Previously, we have offered a short introduction to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, one of his most popular tragedies. But there is plenty to explore in this, one of Shakespeare’s longest plays, so in this post we’re going to focus on the interesting side of the key characters in Hamlet, offering a mini-analysis of the role of these
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April 13, 2021, 3:07pm Ferrante fanatics of the world, rejoice (or, you know, despair if you like. I don’t know your taste in actors): Natalie Portman—the Academy Award-winning star of Black Swan, Jackie, and, eh, Thor: The Dark World—is set to executive produce and play the lead in an upcoming HBO Films adaptation of the mysterious Italian
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April 12, 2021, 12:23pm A brief, unsurprising, and characteristically unpleasant update on the Andrew Cuomo book deal debacle: several current and former Cuomo staffers have anonymously told the Times Union that, counter to Cuomo’s claims, staffers were given tasks related to Cuomo’s memoir about the COVID-19 pandemic, American Crisis, as part of their governmental duties—violating
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