In honor of the birthday of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), here’s my favorite of his poems. God’s Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not […]
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Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey to be reworked by Val McDermid I haven’t been this literarily excited in a long, long time. One of my favorite authors, Val McDermid, has been chosen to update Jane Austen’s least well known novel, Northanger Abbey, for a modern audience: Northanger Abbey is the story of the gothic novel-obsessed 17-year-old
16 Fiction Book Characters’ Myers-Briggs Personality Types The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a psychological categorization tool based on the theories of Carl Jung. If you don’t know your type, this page includes links for finding out more about how this assessment works and what the results mean. I’m an INFP myself, a group that includes
American Southern Writers – Biography.com. To honor today’s 50th anniversary of William Faulkner’s death, Biography presents mini-biographies of 5 famous Southern writers: William Faulkner Carson McCullers Harper Lee Tennessee Williams Cormac McCarthy
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A Farewell to Arms’ With Hemingway’s Alternate Endings – NYTimes.com A new edition of “A Farewell to Arms,” which was originally published in 1929, will be released next week, including all the alternate endings, along with early drafts of other passages in the book. The new edition is the result of an agreement between Hemingway’s
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The Millions : Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2012 Book Preview. You’ll definitely want to check out this list to get yourself ready for fall and winter reading. There are books by some big-name authors here, including J. K. Rowling (yes! Her novel is due in September), Zadie Smith, Michael Chabon, Martin Amis, Junot Diaz,
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Here are a few things that caught my eye over the past week. What Makes Bad Writing From Cynthia Crossen in the Wall Street Journal Invitation to World Literature From Gilgamesh to Gogol, the world has been enriched by the writings of gifted people from a wide range of cultural traditions and regions of the
LeBron James, open book The NBA championship, recently won by the Miami Heat, was big news in the sports world. But a secondary story was the focus on Heat star LeBron James, who focused before games by reading. Yes, reading—all kinds of books, fiction and nonfiction. And lots of sports reporters, including ESPN’s Michael Wilbon here,
NEA Arts Magazine The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has published their fine quarterly magazine since 2004. This site provides access to the NEA Arts Magazine, a great resource for anyone with an interest in the cultural milieu of the United States. Visitors can read the entire magazine as a pdf, or they can
A 20th century interlude: Happy Bloomsday! « Shakespeare In Action In honor of the day, here’s an explanation and meditative reflection that’s well worth reading. It concludes: Ulysses is a novel that celebrates home even as Leopold Bloom is estranged from it. Bloomsday is a day to celebrate Dublin if you are there, but home
