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Margellos World Republic of Letters
In spite of the undeniable significance of this art, the number of books translated into English is disproportionally scarce. The central goal of the Margellos World Republic of Letters series is to help close this gap.
literature  writing  translation 
5 weeks ago by ignatz
The Millions : The ___’s Daughter
"She’s right, there are an awful lot of headless girls in sundresses on the covers of contemporary fiction, although I hadn’t noticed the empty shoes."
literature  fiction  ha 
7 weeks ago by ignatz
Giallo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery.
art  literature  entertainment  italy  horror  thriller 
october 2011 by ignatz
Almost Amis | The New York Observer
Martin Amis is moving to our tightly wrapped little enclave! uh
books  failure  brooklyn  literature  no  from ril
april 2011 by ignatz
On The Bro'd
Dude bro it's On The Rad.
ha  literature  beat  bro 
november 2010 by ignatz
Balkans via Bohemia: Exile and Beyond: An Essay on Dubravka Ugrešić
"In short, Croatia picked the wrong witch. And the world of letters is richer for it."
writers  literature  europe  croatia  yugoslavia  politics 
may 2010 by ignatz
The Carp Castle
First chapter of MacDonald Harris' unpublished posthumous novel, The Carp Castle
family  literature  fiction  novel  thecarpcastle  macdonaldharris 
december 2009 by ignatz
Mark Reads Twilight
hapless community manager at pop culture social network is forced to read Twilight and drags us along for the ride. this should be in the Norton Critical Edition
literature  writing  twilight  ha  buzznet  panasonicyouth  criticism  review  from delicious
september 2009 by ignatz
The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles
A map of Greater Los Angeles keyed to the novels of Thomas Pynchon
literature  pynchon  losangeles  map  geo  visualization  nerd 
july 2009 by ignatz
Review: The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino | Books | The Guardian
What was Italo Calvino? A prepostmodernist? Maybe it's time to dispense with modernism and all its prefixes. A young resistance fighter for the communists during the Nazi occupation of Italy, Calvino became and remained a consistently original writer of intellectual fantasy.
literature  fiction  review  sf  calvino  books 
june 2009 by ignatz
Novels in Three Lines - NYRB Classics
Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks.
news  literature  tobuy  france  shortstories  shortshorts 
march 2009 by ignatz
Two new Burns poems discovered alongside 'rude' letters | Books | guardian.co.uk
Robert Burns may also have been suffering from a rather nasty STD, according to a collection of explicit writing apparently by Scotland's national bard
history  literature  via:mollyaida  poetry  manuscripts  burns 
december 2008 by ignatz
Austenbook
Jane Bennet tagged Elizabeth Bennet in her note Bad News About Lydia.
ha  literature  parody  facebook  janeausten 
december 2008 by ignatz
myliblog: Uncle Bobby's Wedding
letter from a librarian to a patron who objects to gay marriage book in children's section
politics  library  libraries  literature  religion 
july 2008 by ignatz
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric
rhetoric  reference  language  literature  english 
july 2008 by ignatz
Lexus Magazine: Lifestyle: In the Belly of the Beast: The Art of Collaboration
Lifestyle marketing hell as well-known writers shill for Lexus. Et tu, Jane Smiley?
literature  advertising  failure  lexus  sellout  writing  no  gaaaah 
april 2008 by ignatz
YouTube - Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce 'n' Beckett
Short film by Bórd Scannán na hEireann in which Beckett and Joyce play pitch and putt waiting for someone
youtube  video  joyce  beckett  literature  ha  golf 
march 2008 by ignatz
L'inconnue de la Seine
A death mask of a young woman that became an artistic and pop culture icon at the turn of the century
death  art  memes  people  mysteries  characters  history  literature 
august 2007 by ignatz
Calvino Prize
annual prize for fiction similar to that of Calvino
calvino  prizes  literature  writing 
august 2006 by ignatz
Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.
fiction  literature  history  americanhistory  usa  archives  19thcentury  civilwar  etexts 
august 2006 by ignatz
Wilkins Micawber: The Story Within
Dickens' famously debt-ridden optimist from "David Copperfield", all of it
dickens  characters  literature  writing  davidcopperfield  micawber 
may 2006 by ignatz
Švejk Central: All about Svejk and his creator Jaroslav Hasek.
Site about "The Good Solder Svejk", including musical and film versions, etc
theatre  fiction  literature  film  musicals  hasek 
march 2006 by ignatz
BibliOdyssey
Blog of old books and their illustrations; fascinating
blog  books  art  ephemera  illustration  literature  history  bibliomania  libraries  bibliophilia  science 
december 2005 by ignatz
Poetry Archive
audio archive of poets reading their works
poetry  audio  archive  history  literature  mp3 
november 2005 by ignatz
OULIPO
the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature, a group of writers and mathematicians.
fiction  language  literature  poetry  french  text 
november 2005 by ignatz
Tomatotopic organization in the Soprano
L'auteur étude les fois que le lancement de la tomate il provoquit la réaction yellante chez la Chantatrice et demonstre que divers plusieures aires de la cervelle elles etait implicatées dans le response, en particular, le trajet légumier, les nuclei
what  literature  musicology  music  wtf  lol 
october 2005 by ignatz
Medieval Writing
Medieval scripts with paleography exercises and tutorial.
history  language  literature  writing  translation 
september 2005 by ignatz
The Great Vowel Shift -- brief note on language
The change in vowel articulation from the 12th to the 18th centuries in English.
history  linguistics  english  language  literature 
september 2005 by ignatz
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