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By Annie Proulx. (Scribner, $32.) Tracing two families and their part in the destruction of the world’s forests, Proulx’s latest novel is a tale of long-term, shortsighted greed. BEFORE THE FALL. By Noah Hawley. BEHOLD THE DREAMERS. BLACK WATER. CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD. COLLECTED POEMS 1950-2012. COMMONWEALTH. Sign in. American Writers. 40 Excellent Short Stories For Middle School. BOOKSTORE. Welcome, Fellow Storytellers and Librarians!

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Curious about our work? Our books are written by writers, for writers. Our goal is to help you become stronger storytellers while making the writing process a bit easier. In addition to ongoing translations, our books are used in universities and by editors, agents, writing consultants & authors all over the world. Mystery. Dyslexia friendly books. 10 of the best books set in London. ‘Shame and Wonder,’ by David Searcy. Photo “When people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it,” F.

‘Shame and Wonder,’ by David Searcy

Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “because they think that it is only style that they are talking about.” But uncommon literary style is always integrative, both the mother and the daughter of invention, wrought from a writer’s desperation “to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.” Astonishment is a quality central to David Searcy’s “Shame and Wonder,” a nonfiction collection from a writer best known for two horror-­inflected novels, “Ordinary Horror” and “Last Things.” What unites these 21 essays, which range from extended, rolling meditations (including one on the semiotics of the cereal box prize) to a lyric fragment on watching the PBS docu-series “Lewis & Clark,” is the sense of a wildly querying intelligence suspended in a state of awe. Continue reading the main story Essays By David Searcy. Wired for Books MP3 Page by Don Swaim on Free Audio Download.

Here's a list of some of the people Swaim interviews: Douglas Adams, Maya Angelou, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, Ray Bradbury, William F.

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Buckley, Anthony Burgess, William Burroughs, Raymond Carver, Joan Didion, E. L. Doctorow, Bret Easton Ellis, Joseph Heller, John Irving, Erica Jong, Garrison Keillor, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Studs Turkel, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Elie Wiesel, and hundreds more. Just click to the MP3 page and remember to download these files by right-clicking on the Download File link and selecting Save Target As... Then it will allow you to download the file to an assigned place on your computer.

Listen to the voices of many of the best writers of the English language. Wired for Books is proud to make these important recordings publicly available in their entirety for the first time. List of 21st-century writers. A[edit] B[edit]

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Literary Periods Timeline. YA novels lists. If you like books like these: crime fiction for teens. As someone who has been reading YA for years, long before I sat down to write a book of my own, it was less of a surprise and more of a relief to read that, according to a Bowker Market Research survey published earlier in the month, 55% of buyers of YA books are over 18.

If you like books like these: crime fiction for teens

Why? I take it you're looking for an answer more profound than: because they're brilliant. It's easy to dismiss books for teenagers as books about teenagers. After all, teenagers only care about split ends and beautiful, brooding vampires, right? The Best Books: The Top 100 Novels of All Time - Listmuse.com. A contemporary list, with an international flavour and a respect for the classics, The Best Books: Top 100 Novels of All Time list contains many of the great works of fiction you'd expect, but with a few surprises to add a little spice to the collection. 1.

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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English. " —Chicago Tribune Aldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. 2. By Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. By George Orwell. Literary Magazines and Journals Database. Writers - Literature. Culture - The 100 greatest British novels. Recommended. IRISH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA. Irish Writers OnlineIrish PlayographyStudy Ireland: Poetry - BBCIrish Women Writers - M.

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OckerbloomIreland Literature GuidePoetry Ireland / Éigse ÉireannEarly Irish Lyric Poetry - Kuno MeyerSonnets from Ireland - E. BlomquistColum's Anthology of Irish Verse - Bartleby.comBREAC - Digital Journal of Irish Studies Medieval Celtic ManuscriptsThe Book of KellsCarmina GadelicaCELT Irish Electronic Texts Irish Writers OnlineIreland Literature ExchangeBibliography of 19th-c. Irish Literature - J.M. Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift ArchiveJonathan Swift Biography - IncompetechGulliver's Travels - U. Bram StokerDraculaBram Stoker Biography - Classic Literature LibraryBram Stoker's Dracula - Carstens smith.

Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion. I Heart Intelligence FREE BOOKS: 100 legal sites to download literature - I Heart Intelligence. Top 10 Contemporary British Playwrights You Should Know. Caryl Churchill Fascinated with staging the complexities of female sexuality, Caryl Churchill has been penning award-winning productions since her debut as a student playwright in 1958 – catapulting her career into view with the acclaimed Downside.

Top 10 Contemporary British Playwrights You Should Know

From 1974-5, Churchill was Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court, and from here was involved with theatrical groups Monstrous Regiment and Joint Stock well into the 1980s. Churchill’s arguably greatest accomplishment is the Obie Award winning Top Girls (1983). Centred on the character of Marlene, first seen seated at a celebratory dinner taking place in the present, the plot unravels to reveal an entirely female cast representing what Sadie Jones labels a ‘female global humanity’. 10 Contemporary Plays That Should Be on Your Shelf. Tomorrow marks the release of much beloved, left-of-center author Daniel Johnson’s new book, entitled Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse. Like many of his readers, we are most familiar with Johnson through his novels (Tree of Smoke) and short stories (Jesus’ Son), so we were psyched to jump into this new-to-us format for the author.

Inspired by Johnson’s plays, we started thinking about all of the wonderful contemporary playwrights out there whose work deserves a spot on anyone’s reading list, whether they’re a theatre junkie or just an average lover of fantastic literature. About Blurb. As with any good idea, once it gets a little traction, others get in the game. In the past seven years, the self-publishing market has exploded. We think that’s great, because our mission from the beginning has been to empower people to self-publish. The more ways to do it, the better. The more people doing it, the better. The more books in the world...well, that’s the best part of all. We thought you might ask. Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) Interior Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent bookstores on Paris's Left Bank.

The first was opened by Sylvia Beach on 19 November 1919 at 8 rue Dupuytren, before moving to larger premises at 12 rue de l'Odéon in the 6th arrondissement in 1922. During the 1920s, it was a gathering place for writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and Ford Madox Ford. It closed in 1940 during the German occupation of Paris and never re-opened. The second is situated at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, in the 5th arrondissement. Crime Fiction, Psycho-Thrillers, Murder Mysteries. Open access ebooks.

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