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May 31, 2021 book lists / Books / Literature

Memorial Day Reading List

Every year, we remember those who served in the armed forces. Below are a few books to honor the courageous individuals who defended

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May 28, 2021 Cartography & Maps / Literature

Maps: European Literary London

I thought this was really neat. I like how it’s a live map and you can click through and read

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May 3, 2021 Books / Literature / YouTube

“we will need writers who can remember freedom”: ursula k le guin at the national book awards (2014)

During the #AtoZ Blog Challenge of April, I started following Susanna J Sturgis of Write Through It, and she brought

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February 10, 2021 Fictional Feasts / Literary Gastronomy / Literature

Fictional Feasts / Literary Gastronomy, part 2

Welcome back for Literary Gastronomy, Part 2. “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

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December 30, 2020 From The Editor's Desk / Literature / Travel

Literary Tour: New Orleans

I’ve recently become enamored with the literary tours around the country that delve deep into the writing history of the

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June 10, 2018 From The Editor's Desk / Literature / Writing

Favorite Closing Lines in Literature

Some books just stay with you. They haunt you. You dream of the characters, and of what would be if

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November 13, 2017 From The Editor's Desk / Literature

Cartography and World Building

As an early reader, maps always kept me fascinated – especially when I had the image of where things were

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October 13, 2016 In the News / Literature

‘How does it feel?’ Bob Dylan awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2016

Congratulations to Bob Dylan for his 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded today, for “having created new poetic expressions within

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June 2, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Humorists Ogden Nash and James Thurber

What is the connection between Ogden Nash and James Thurber? Besides both being humorists, they published at The New Yorker during the

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May 31, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison

Continuing on the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamp week, today I will be featuring Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison. The

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May 30, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – John Steinbeck and Dorothy Parker

Inspiration comes from many places. Today’s blog post inspiration came from the Richard Wright quote of last week, when I

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May 25, 2016 Literature / Quote / Writing

Quote of the Day: Richard Wright

  The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as

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May 23, 2016 Literature / Quote / Writing

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde

 There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do

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