Monday Miscellany
I am in the throes of preparing for a 2,800-mile relocation trip. Monday Miscellany will return in a few weeks. In the meantime, you can find new material on Literature & Psychology.
Amazon Buys Goodreads
Amazon Buys Goodreads. Just in case you missed the day’s hottest literary topic. . .
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Monday Miscellany
Scientific Explanations for Why Spoilers Are So Horrible Like Jennifer Richler, I have the most recent season of Downton Abbey tucked away on my DVR, though I haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. But because of the internet and, especially Twitter, I already know what big plot turns I’ll find when I do sit
Story Circle Network: 2012 Sarton Memoir Award Announced
Story Circle Network: 2012 Sarton Memoir Award Announced. (Austin, TX. March 22, 2013)—The Story Circle Network (SCN) is pleased to announce that Monica Wood has been granted the Sarton Women’s Memoir Award for her book When We Were the Kennedys (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). The book tells the story of Wood’s mill town childhood in
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Monday Miscellany
How Literature Saved My Psyche: Attending a Book-Themed Therapy Session at the Center for Fiction Just read this. That is all. Nicholas Royle’s top 10 first novels Clever Nicholas Royle: First Novel, my seventh, is all about first novels (and other stuff). My narrator, a creative writing tutor, tries to help students write their debuts
Hilary Mantel faces six newcomers in contest for women’s fiction prize
Hilary Mantel faces six newcomers in contest for women’s fiction prize | Books | The Guardian Among the contenders for the leading prize for fiction written by women is a bestselling thriller and a how-to-live-your-life memoir so divisive it had some reviewers wanting to throw it across the room. Also in the running are novels
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The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle
The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle | Books | guardian.co.uk. Here’s something to help us keep all those literary prizes straight.
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Letters of Note: Come on now Marlon, put up your dukes and write!
Letters of Note: Come on now Marlon, put up your dukes and write! Late-1957, with his newly released novel attracting near-universal praise from critics, Beat author Jack Kerouac aimed for the sky and wrote the following passionate letter to Marlon Brando in an effort to bring his work to the big screen. The novel in
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Monday Miscellany
“Ghost Stories”: The ubiquitous anti-feminism of young adult romances In a Guardian article last November, Tanya Gold condemned the Twilight franchise and the paranormal progeny it has spawned, calling them sado-masochistic “disempowerment fantasies” masquerading as fairy tales, normalising abuse in the name of risqué romance. But her argument – though apt – hardly goes far
Celebrate International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. And here, once again courtesy of the folks at The Scout Report, are some informative sites. WomenWatch: UN Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment The WomenWatch website is dedicated to providing “information and resources on gender equality and empowerment of women.” It is an initiative of the United
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