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Play EmilyBlaster, a Computer Game Based on Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 10, 2022July 8, 2022

The game instructs players to recreate the poet’s starkish, rhyming prose by shooting at moving words from a fixed point, with hilarious results.

Posted inFilm

A Documentary’s Attempt to Protect Flannery O’Connor at All Costs

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 24, 2020November 5, 2020

Flannery expresses the author’s genius but goes to tortured lengths to excuse her racism.

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A New Bookselling Platform Challenges Amazon’s Monopoly

by Hakim Bishara March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

“Directing readers to buy their books from Amazon is harmful to the authors, and the publishers, whose work you are trying to support,” reads a letter encouraging independent media resources to use platforms like Bookshop.

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Gloria Anzaldúa’s Groundbreaking Book About Life on the Borders Gets a Marathon Reading

by Marisa Crawford October 28, 2019October 28, 2019

A mix of voices filled the room with passages from Borderlands, serving as a powerful antidote to the violent racism and xenophobia that characterizes our current political moment.

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Remembering Toni Morrison Through Film

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney September 30, 2019October 3, 2019

To help me parse this year’s film Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, I had a conversation with Steven G. Fullwood, an archivist, editor, publisher, and scholar, to discuss the documentary’s approach in telling the phenomenal author’s story.

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English Translations of Obscure Medieval Texts Go Online

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 24, 2017May 31, 2022

Stanford University’s Global Medieval Sourcebook is a new online compendium of English translations for overlooked Middle Ages texts.

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An Artist’s Meditative Project to Retype 100 Novels

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 15, 2017August 15, 2017

Tim Youd’s 100 Novels project is continuing in New York at Cristin Tierney Gallery, where he retyped Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley.

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From James Baldwin to Susan Sontag, Listen to Recordings from PEN America’s Vast Archive

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 11, 2017August 3, 2021

After finding its literary archives inaccessible, PEN America launched a five-year project to digitize 1,500 hours of audio and video.

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Six Rare Portraits of Jane Austen Go on View

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 3, 2017

A rare 1869 watercolor of Jane Austen will join five other portraits, including the only portrayal of the novelist known to have been made during her lifetime.

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An Exhibition Offers a Visual Biography of Sylvia Plath, Including Her Little-Known Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 6, 2017April 13, 2017

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is opening a visual biography of the author Sylvia Plath, including her rarely-seen artwork.

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Setting the Puzzling Language of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to Music

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 5, 2017April 5, 2017

Over 100 contributors to the project Waywords and Meansigns are setting James Joyce’s experimental 1930s book Finnegans Wake to music.

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How Long Did It Take to Write Some of the World’s Most Popular Books?

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian September 23, 2016September 23, 2016

Amateurs may think that inspiration drives artistic production, but professionals know the muses are rarely to blame for creative clogging.

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