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When Whitman Sells Denim
Sorry for the recent scarcity of posts — the semester is winding down, and spare writing time will be pretty slim until mid-December. But in the meantime, I couldn’t pass up this opportuni… more →
Literati in the World
When Whitman Sells Denim
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jenecrit wrote 1 week ago: Sorry for the recent scarcity of posts — the semester is winding down, and spare writing time … more →
Tell Me a Story, Please
jenecrit wrote 2 months ago: “The poet [of Beowulf] was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Ger … more →
Borrowing Books Since 1946
jenecrit wrote 4 months ago: Between products like the Amazon Kindle, e-books, and the lure of new popular titles at Barnes & … more →
Losing Words, Lost Voices
jenecrit wrote 4 months ago: A couple of losses to the literary world this week: Walter Cronkite, CBS news anchor and the “ … more →
Twitterpoeted From Iran
jenecrit wrote 5 months ago: For those who fear that new media is the beginning of the end of traditional literature, let’s … more →
When Literati Write the News
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jenecrit wrote 5 months ago: Children’s novels, particularly children’s fantasy novels, are the sorbet I serve up per … more →
Shakespeare Goes to Court
jenecrit wrote 5 months ago: This ProfoundNet may not seem, well, profound, but it illustrates perfectly that literary questions … more →
Cream, Sugar, or Paperback?
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jenecrit wrote 6 months ago: In the 21st century, when books are thought to be on the decline and instant, abbreviated informatio … more →
Beauty Under the Rocks
jenecrit wrote 6 months ago: Image: Andrea Hsu, NPR Responding to tragedy is never easy. Words are insufficient to answer deep, s … more →
Literary Pigs, Unite!
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jenecrit wrote 6 months ago: Check out this link via The Point: Barnyard reign of terror halted…and other unexpected result … more →
E-Book: Bane of the Literati?
jenecrit wrote 7 months ago: A few weeks ago, the Wall-Street Journal published: How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and W … more →
Introducing LITourism
jenecrit wrote 7 months ago: Literature + Tourism = ? It’s not a combination you see every day. But in Guyana, it’s … more →
2009 Pulitzer Prizes
jenecrit wrote 7 months ago: It’s that time of year. This week, a 19-member board at Columbia University selected the 2009 … more →
The Ethics Mill
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jenecrit wrote 8 months ago: I recently read an article that frustrated me, made me think, and then made me think again about the … more →
Reading the Recession
jenecrit wrote 8 months ago: Check out this story from the Washington Post: Seventy years after John Steinbeck published his best … more →
Is John Galt Selling Books?
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jenecrit wrote 8 months ago: According to The Atlas Shrugged Index from the Freakonomics blog, sales of Ayn Rand’s famous e … more →
Foote Steps Out
jenecrit wrote 9 months ago: Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and screen writer Horton Foote died this week at the age of 92. Re … more →
2 Kindle or not 2 Kindle
jenecrit wrote 9 months ago: Image courtesy of Amazon Amazon has done it again. Less than a year after the emergence of the Kindl … more →
Obama as Literature
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jenecrit wrote 10 months ago: The face of politics in America is changing. The face of literature in America is changing. And acco … more →
