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The Chicago Blog: The Audacity of Literary Studies
Not "why teach literary criticism or literary theory or literary history" but "teach literature," a phrase that compounds subject matter and discipline, rather as if economics were called money, mathematics were called numbers, or history were called the human past
Readerville
Since May of 2000, the Readerville Forum has provided a broad and flexible space for readers, writers, librarians, publishers, critics and anyone else who loves books to have thoughtful and engaging discussions about everything from favorite books and authors to why they buy what they buy, to current writing conundrums, to the latest literary news.
John Green: A Speech I Wrote for the ALAN Conference...
I want to talk today about my new book, and I also want to talk about a book I wish I'd written: M. T. Anderson's two-volume novel The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, and I want to talk about the importance of classrooms as a place for intellectual discourse in the lives of teenagers, but I want to begin by discussing the most fascinating and complex individual I have ever had the privilege of knowing: Me.\n
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Our intent: build an experience that is simultaneously a book group, a computer, and a book. We believe firmly that people want to read, annotate and discuss, right there, immersed in the text. That’s the best time to talk about a book. We also respect the solitary side to reading: people should have the chance to tune out the community.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
Why do we write? I imagine that each of us has his or her own response to this simple question. One has predispositions, a milieu, circumstances. Shortcomings, too. If we are writing, it means that we are not acting. That we find ourselves in difficulty when we are faced with reality, and so we have chosen another way to react, another way to communicate, a certain distance, a time for reflection.
Don Paterson: Foreword to Best Thought, Worst Thought
The aphorism is a brief waste of time. The poem is a complete waste of time. The novel is a monumental waste of time.
PW's Best Books of the Year - 11/3/2008 - Publishers Weekly
Once again, we take the opportunity near year's end to review the year in books, highlighting the very best of what American publishing had to offer in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, comics, religion, lifestyle and children's.
Playlist for Scott Williams - March 10, 2008
Contains Flannery O'Connor reading "Some Aspects of the Grotesque In Southern Fiction" and "A Good Man is Hard To Find"
We're Teaching Books That Don't Stack Up
As much as I hate to admit it, all too often it's English teachers like me -- as able and well-intentioned as we may be -- who close down teen interest in reading.
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