So, who says drugs and alcohol aren't useful? For one thing, they're responsible for some of the world's greatest literature. Here are 5 classics written under the influence.
Bonus Feature: Writers Are the Craziest People – odd but true facts about some famous names in literature.
My library is not a single beast but a composite of many others, a fantastic animal made up of the several libraries built and then abandoned, over and over again, throughout my life…a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time.
Which young adult sf/f titles, if any, would you recommend to an adult reader who would not otherwise consider reading YA fiction because they think it's only suitable for kids?
A lot of standards appear, but Scott Westerfield shows up in many answers from the all-star panel.
"If Spielberg, Poe, or another great came to you would you blow them off too? Without knowing what geniuses they are? IF SO; I'm surprised there are any writers at all with your agency. Are they related to you?"
Some stories we love hearing over and over again. Folktales told worldwide over the centuries have amazing similarities of theme, style and even in presentation. Some of the most dramatic fairy tales capture our hearts and imaginations even today.
More and more literary scholars agree that the field has become increasingly irrelevant to the concerns not only of the "outside world," but also to the world inside the ivory tower. Literary studies should become more like the sciences. Literature professors should apply science's research methods, its theories, its statistical tools, and its insistence on hypothesis and proof.
Some of the 20th century’s top writers didn’t make the shortlist—announced today—for the Best of the Booker awards, among them Iris Murdoch, William Golding and Kingsley Amis. In the running are Sir Salman Rushdie—headlining as favorite for Midnight’s Children—Pat Barker, Peter Carey, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and J. G. Farrell.
We threw a going away party for Matt and I have to say it was one of the best parties ever. Of course, there was a lot of sentimentality but I guess that goes with getting all happy and drunk.
This is my last installment for the movies adapted from comic books and this time I shall be listing the best villains in movies adapted from comic books. It cannot be doubted that the antagonists in comic books are as significant as the heroes themselves as they help define the character of the hero. They also help in forming the image of milieu of the story.
More than a cookbook and actually a mythological adventure into an island whose history became written in Homer's brief attempt to understand the cloudy little island. Seems I have seen the title being used in blogs since the publication of the book.
Remember the time Fox News pissed on Kurt Vonnegut's grave? The network upheld its belles lettres legacy the other night as Greg Gutfeld and his Red Eye cohorts branded Stephen King "partially brain-dead" and "a raging alcoholic," along with cracking jokes about running him over in a van, because they didn't like the way he phrased his exhortation to teens to read more.
Two years after announcing his retirement, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, master of magical realism, is on the verge of publishing another novel…this one a “novel of love,” according to those in the know. Look for the as yet untitled work to appear before the end of the year.
DQ Books brings together artists, illustrators and photographers and places their visuals within the context of the book form using Flash technology. Each thematic issue is accompanied by a soundscape created by French composer Avril.
These are pretty cool. Click through to check ’em out.
Aside from flashy 3D displays, the other big draw for fans of future tech at Display 2008 in April was electronic paper in at least 57 flavor-packed varieties.
The products on show could be split, approximately, into two barely separate categories – those that are already on sale and those that are jockeying for contracts from firms big enough to make or break them.
Before inviting the web to create a collaborative novel using a wiki in 2007, Jeremy Ettinghausen asked, "Can a community write a novel?" The answer is yes but a terrible one!
But what gets lost—as always with the arts when the philistines arrive—is the art. There is nothing inherently good about a book because it is a translation. There are good books, there are mediocre books, and there are a great deal of awful books: translations fit all three categories.
As the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s birth approaches, there’s no dearth of hoopla happening over both the author and his famous spy. Over on the Guardian blog, Sam Jordison talks about why the James Bond novels, though low-brow, should be considered classics. I have to agree with him, though perhaps Fleming’s wife wouldn’t; she felt he was “hammering out pornography.”
Kingrat's most read review: "Last year I took a microeconomics class and signed up for a macroeconomics class. After purchasing the textbook, Seattle Central cancelled the class. Still, I needed to learn more about macroeconomics as what I know is kind of random and lacks building blocks that would help that knowledge make more sense."
