LGBTQ Litterature. Contemporary. 1945-1980. 1900-1945. 1800-1900. Pre 1800. Poetry. Book Vs. Film. The Anatomy of Influence: Mapping the Labyrinth of Literature. 100 best first lines from novels. Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit for Contemporary Literature at Illinois State University:
Best Of The Summer: 6 Books The Critics Adore. Richard Bowes Talks About His New Novel and LGBT Issues (AUDIO) Get Gay Voices Newsletters: This week I talked with awarding-winning gay author Richard Bowes about his new autobiographical novel, Dust Devil on a Quiet Street, which was just released by Lethe Press.
Born in Boston, Richard has lived in Manhattan for almost his entire adult life. Dust Devil on a Quiet Street takes readers on an amazing ride. It's like traveling in a time machine through 50 years of gay life in New York City. Fire Ice by Joe Haldeman - pg 01. The sexy A-level set texts scandalising our teenagers' morals. Leah Schnelbach (cloudy_vision) på Twitter... The Judas Event by Famous Postmodernist Alvaro Villanueva - 01. Story by Alvaro Villanueva.
Concept and illustrations by Adam Christopher Strange. Three-Minute Fiction. 28 "Favorite" Books That Are Huge Red Flags. The Elephant in the Room by Paul Cornell. George R.
R. Martin’s Wild Cards multi-author shared-world universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. Bill Clinton's Favorite Books. With the recent opening of the George W.
Bush Library, we thought it would be a great opportunity to remind ourselves of former presidents' favorite reading. Here's Bill Clinton's favorite books according to a previous exhibit at his own presidential library: 65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s. ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra. Some good novels catch fire immediately, as if a writer had simply opened a Zippo lighter.
Others come into being more gradually. Boys Don't Cry: A Review of 'Raising Cain' - Columbus, OH. American boys are suffering an emotional crisis.
Psychologists Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, in their acclaimed Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys, describe this crisis as one of “emotional illiteracy”. Boys, they argue, are actively discouraged from developing for themselves emotional repertoires sufficient to express the full range of the human emotional experience.
American conceptions of masculinity emphasize qualities like impassibility and ruggedness, imposing on boys immoderate expectations to engage the world without feeling and to withstand distress without complaint. Consequently, as boys mature into men, they become less and less aware of their own feelings and those of others. The emotional crisis, therefore, is one of dissipating emotions. Emotional Literacy “Emotional literacy” is the key concept in Raising Cain. Contrary to popular portrayals of gender differences, men and women alike must develop their emotional literacy. Harsh Discipline. Cancel the Apocalypse by Andrew Simms – review. No skyfall: The 2010 volcanic eruption in Iceland shut down European airspace but did not bring the world to a standstill.
Photograph: Halldor Kolbeins/AFP/Getty Images Back in the days when he had the gleam of youthful promise, David Cameron affected to be interested in green politics, and something called "general well-being". Ed Miliband was a somewhat evangelical secretary of state for energy and climate change, whose first speech as Labour leader examined the notion of "life beyond the bottom line". But the long aftermath of the economic crash looks to have left precious little room for such ideas, instead pointing up the irony that one of the consequences of the financial crisis has been the squashing of any convincing conversation about everything that caused it, and what it actually means. The economist, campaigner and author Andrew Simms works in a rather different universe, accessible via the offices of the New Economics Foundation.
Live webchat: Sarah Waters. This week's live webchat by very popular request is with Sarah Waters, whose second world war novel The Night Watch was televised only this week.
She sprang straight to the top in 1998 with her Victorian romp Tipping the Velvet, and wrote two more gems of sapphic Victoriana – Affinity and Fingersmith – before turning her gaze forward a century for the quietly impressive The Night Watch, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2006. Her most recent novel was The Little Stranger, a haunted house story set against the postwar decline of the aristocracy and the birth of the welfare state. She will be online to chat on Friday 15 July between 1pm and 2pm. Feel free to start posting your questions now, so Sarah can have a full hour to answer, and log back in on Friday to join in the conversation.
Writers' blocks. Barnhill Farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, Scotland, where George Orwell wrote 1984.
Photo: Alamy Literary pilgrim Stephen Phelan has explored an author's home or two. From Tolstoy to the Brontes, he shares his favourites. Most writers spend the better part of their days sitting alone in chairs, slouched over desks, occasionally staring out of windows. In his lifetime, even a beloved crowd-pleaser like Charles Dickens would probably have bored his fans to fits of Victorian weeping if they had to watch him work for more than five minutes.
Chloë Schama Reviews Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall" After two bouts of heavy channeling (Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Walt Whitman in Specimen Days), Michael Cunningham has found his voice again.
It is still a voice crowded with influence: the first page of his new novel quotes Ulysses, and subsequent literary references—to Shakespeare, Mann, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Tolstoy, Dante, and Proust, to name only a few—abound. On top of this dense field of allusion, the plot is filtered through a dozen artists’ visions. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cunningham’s characters encounter Damien Hirst and Rodin; later, the protagonist contemplates El Greco, Manet, Seurat, and Agnes Martin among others. A plot constructed upon such a prolific recitation of cultural objects and references might appear merely a dilettante’s dilemma, but By Nightfall becomes a deeply moving, precisely rendered story. Despite the abundance of allusion, barely a word in this novel feels false or misplaced. Storybird - Artful storytelling.
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