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Litopia: An Online Writer's Colony
May 16, 2011 | (0) Comments
It's a dream of many writers to spend a week, a month, or longer at a writer's colony. These retreats offer writers a quite place to work, free of family or other responsibilities. Online writer's...
2011 Pulitzer Prizes Recognize Tech Innovations in Journalism
May 11, 2011 | (0) Comments
Of the many journalism awards are handed out each year, none is more coveted than the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize Board, established in 1917, awards several prizes annually to newspapers or online news sites...
Beloved Books Win Pulitzer Prizes
May 6, 2011 | (0) Comments
The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes in the "Letters" category saw honors bestowed on several beloved books, including two very different biographies: one about George Washington, and one about cancer. These awards are Character Approved for their...
The Pale King: Posthumous Novel from David Foster Wallace
Apr 8, 2011 | (0) Comments
It was to be published on April 15th--a fitting on-sale date for a novel about the IRS. Instead, The Pale King, David Foster Wallace's unfinished posthumous novel, began landing in bookstores several days early, causing...
Word and Film: An Entertaining Marriage
Mar 23, 2011 | (0) Comments
It's an age-old debate: Which is better, the book or the movie? A new website sets out to prove that regardless of the answer, it's all entertainment. Word and Film describes itself as the "intersection...
A Jury of Her Peers: Women Writers Through the Decades
Mar 16, 2011 | (0) Comments
It appears to be a yearly ritual: a list of great American writers is published, and the counting begins. How many women are on the list? Invariably, there is disappointment, and a public discussion, and...
Steampunk Goes Mainstream
Mar 9, 2011 | (0) Comments
The literary movement known as steampunk has been around for decades, existing quietly as a sub-genre of the science fiction/fantasy category. But now, as Brooklyn, NY celebrates the grand opening of The Way Station, called...
How to Write a Sentence: A Writing Book for Readers
Feb 28, 2011 | (0) Comments
It's not often that a book on language and writing receives the type of mainstream attention garnered by the latest literary bestseller. Stanley Fish's How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One is...
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